Huckleberries Online is about to hit another milestone this week. Sometime Wednesday, this blog will top 2.5 million page-views for the year with a good chance of setting the blog record for traffic by year's end. Cindy will be at the helm if/when that happens…
A horse frolics in the fresh snow earlier today in Gates Mills, Ohio. Renewed snow and bone-chilling temperatures are making it feel like below-zero in parts of northern Ohio. (AP Photo)
1. Coffee: It always finds a way out of the cup.2. Hot soup: Many people drink it like coffee and run the same risks.3. Tacos: "A food that can disassemble itself without much help, leaving your car looking like a salad bar," says Hagerty.4. Chili:…
5:48 p.m. A drunk, combative male is being confined in a wheelchair by Coeur d'Alene Casino security.5:31 p.m. EMTs are responding to possible allergic reaction to peanuts @ CdA Casino.5:06 p.m. A possible DUI turned of on e/b Garden after driving wrong way on 15th/CdA.5:02…
On his superb Snaps & Frames blog, SR colleague Colin Mulvany writes of this photo: "An unusually dense fog descended on Spokane Monday evening just as I was headed to an assignment to photograph holiday light displays in nearby neighborhoods. I chucked the idea when…
Children are buried in foam used to simulate snow at a shopping mall on Tuesday in Singapore. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)Top Cutlines:1. Two kids on the way to heaven arrived with just their heads, their hearts staying at home -- Herb.2. The…
I'd like to have been a fly on the wall around 5:15-20 Monday evening when Rep. Bob Nonini and Judge John Mitchell (pictured) happened upon state Sen. John Goedde, Rep-elect Kathy Sims, & Rep. Phil Hart near the security area of the old Kootenai County…
Joe Jonas, a retired North Idaho College art instructor & artist who died last Tuesday, is shown in 1994 with one of five, 250-pound panels he created to show the history of Coeur d'Alene. Jonas left a big footprint on NIC in the 18 years…
The baby sitter accused of killing a three-year-old North Idaho boy in early October has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for Cohen Johnson’s death. Amanda Skogen, 26, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in court Tuesday for the death of Johnson, who died after Skogen pushed…
Larry King interviews comedian Jerry Seinfeld during a live 2005 broadcast of "Larry King Live" in New York. After 25 years of "Larry King Live," Larry King will hang up his suspenders with his last broadcast on Thursday. (AP Photo/CNN, Lorenzo Bevilaqua)Question: Are you a…
Friends said a woman shot to death by her boyfriend on Sunday had a 9-month-old baby and ived with her mother at the Augusta Avenue home. Michael Trout, who said he’s known Samantha Clark Franco (right) for about 10 years, said she attended Havermale High…
Spokane County has a higher percentage of single men and single women. Kootenai County a higher percentage of married couples. Residents of Kootenai County are more likely to have finished high school, gone on to college and received an associates or bachelor’s degree, although Spokane…
Rita Amunrud hold up playing cards of cold case murders on in Spokane. Amunrud's mother was shot to death in 1971 and the case is still unsolved. Amunrud would like to take playing cards like these from Florida and have Washington State cold case murders…
I hate to break this to you fans of Japanese food but Takara is closing Thursday, Dec. 23, after an 18-year run. A colleague of mine read the announcement on the door of the restaurant, located on Lakeside between 3rd & 4th, over the lunch…
Every year, the Christmas card project rivals only cookie baking as the most time-consuming aspect of pre-Christmas. I have to push myself to sit down every day with my box of envelopes, cards and Christmas letters because, of course, I have to write at least…
Do you have a hero in your family? We do. His name is Paul. He is my cousin. And the incident happen about 60 years ago. When he was about 9 or 10 years old. I can close my eyes and see the same scene…
I'm getting increasingly bothered by the human cost of the war in the Middle East that seems to go without end amend. In the last couple of weeks, two Montana soldiers have been maimed by IEDs in Afghanistan. The latest, 21-year-old Lance Cpl. Thomas Parker,…
In the hills above Rathdrum & Hauser at the old Brand X Ranch, Jana Tritto photographed these two bull moose trimming an apple tree this morning. In his Outdoors Blog, Rich Landers points out that winter weather is moving moose closer to townto nibble tender…
Noonish: A crate is lying in right lane of I-90 @ M/P 2.5 (Pleasantview/PF).Noonish: A truck traveling on H95 @ Dufort/Bonner County smells strongly of propane.11:45 a.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activity report for Dec. 12-13 here.11:30 am. A landscape business has 2 children in…
The Columbia Falls High School junior who inadvertently brought a rifle to school is back in class today after school board trustees voted not to expel her. Demari DeReu, 16, faced an expulsion hearing Monday night after bringing an unloaded hunting rifle to school earlier…
I can't say for sure why we no longer erect and trim a real Christmas tree during the holidays. Mebbe it's no longer fun to search for a tree in a lot or at a tree farm without the kids home any more. Or mebbe…
Monday Poll: By the slimmest of margins, Hucks Nation prefers hot-buttered rum to Bailey's Irish cream as the top adult holiday drink. Hot buttered-rum received 20 of 87 (22.99) votes to 19 of 87 (21.84%) to finish first among holiday drinks. Other drinks getting votes…
Parents, from front right, Dennis and Aimee Taylor speak before the school board to ask that a book, "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America", be removed from the school curriculum, during a meeting in Bedford, N.H., Monday. The Taylors are asking school…
Helmets for youngsters isn’t a dead issue, Twin Falls City Council members said Monday night, but neither will it be a law. The City Council voted 4-3 against even bringing an ordinance requiring children younger than 16 to wear bike helmets forward for final consideration…
Congressman-elect Raul Labrador reacted to judge's ruling against the health care reform bill: "(Monday's) ruling by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson in Virginia that the Health Care Reform Bill passed by Congress last Christmas Eve contains unconstitutional requirements represents a great victory for all…
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
