I'm blogging from home in my pajamas today, nursing a slight sinus infection and chest cold while snow falls lightly outside. In a minute or so, I'm going to search for my slippers and get a second cup of coffee. If you need to get…
Althea Roberts, left, and Juana Norwood, right, look for photos of family members who died in Jonestown during the 32nd annual memorial service and prayer vigil to remember the more than 900 victims of the Jonestown massacre in Oakland, Calif., today. Parting ways with longtime…
Christa Hazel: I'm gonna do something rarely seen on HBO: I'm admitting I was wrong. Not mistaken. Not misunderstood. Just plain old WRONG. I called, I ranted and I refused the big blue bin. I did not want to make room for the added bin…
5:35 p.m. 2 drivers are complaining of neck pain following injury crash @ H95 & Canfield.5:12 p.m. A deer has two broken back legs after being hit by vehicle on Cougar Gulch Road and needs to be euthanized.5:08 p.m. Caller reports a residential burglary in…
On her Idaho Scenic Images Facebook page, Linda Lantzy provides this magical view of downtown Coeur d'Alene this morning, after the first snow of the season.
Sarah Palin’s 16-year-old daughter, Willow, is in the news for an ill-advised Facebook tantrum, in which she let loose with a string of profanities and homophobic insults. But, should this even be news? On one hand, I’m told that this is just how teenagers these…
I'd like to interrupt this regular programming to inform the Women of Hucks Online that I haven't been a pest for Mrs. O today, despite my sinus infection and chest cold. I've simply gone about my blogging, with an occasional trip to the medicine closet…
Huckleberries has learned (re: Teacher fights firing for 'swats'/St. Maries Gazette-Record) ... that a Benewah County jury unanimously sided with former Worley-Plummer teacher Bruce Lust and awarded $148,000 to him in back pay in his 2007 wrongful termination case today. Lust had been fired by…
Johnson considered applicants from across the country and in June, she inked a three-year contract with James Ryan. Ryan, who made a cross-country move for the job, started work on Aug. 23 and set about co-directing — and playing two small onstage roles in —…
In this photo released by Heritage House Auctions, a copy of "Detective Comics #27" with the first appearance of Batman is shown. Originally purchased by a 13-year old Robert Irwin in 1939 for 10 cents, the comic was sold to an anonymous collector for $492,937…
They pay us good wages to feel up your granny in case she's got A bombs concealed in her fanny.The Bard of Sherman Avenue
I don't want to get Christa Hazel mad at me, but ... I find myself recycling a heckuva lot more now that when we had those blue plastic boxes in which to put out recyclables. We filled that new dark blue rolling container that the…
Fox News chief Roger Ailes (pictured in AP file photo) apologized Thursday to Abraham Foxman, national director for the Anti-Defamation League, after calling NPR executives "Nazis" in an interview with The Daily Beast. Ailes, in a letter, began by following up on "the Glenn Beck…
Mike Perry, the KHQ broadcaster who hangs out in the Spokesman-Review newsroom in Coeur d'Alene, gives us a peek at what weather conditions were on Lookout Pass earlier today. Here you see a couple of vehicles that spun out on the pass. Mike said he…
Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation Area is opening its lifts Friday to take advantage of 8 inches of fresh snow on a base up to 20 inches deep, Phil Edholm, ski area president announced minutes ago. "The majority of the front side of the mountain…
Summer seems like a distant memory to most of us – but not 10-year-old Hannah Ellis. When she talked about summer camp, words exploded like a popcorn kernels in a microwave. Breathlessly, she listed her favorite things about her time at Camp Sweyolakan. “I like…
Bryan Fischer, the "Director of Issues Analysis" for the conservative Christian group the American Family Association, was unhappy yesterday that President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to a soldier for saving lives. This, Fischer wrote on his blog, shows that the Medal of Honor…
Ten-year-old Destiny Jewett of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho waits for the school bus this morning after an early morning snowfall blanketed the area. (AP Photo/The Spokesman-Review, Kathy Plonka)Knee deep in weasels, woman seeks home for ferrets/Sally Showman, KXLYCoeur d'Alene's Katie Baker leads Lady Griz to win/Bill…
John Austin: I love north Idaho. I sighted my first migratory eagle this morning at Wolf Lodge Bay. There's something about seeing an eagle flying through the snow showers, against the backdrop of Beauty Bay, that is very special, even from the icy confines of…
Noonish: A shoplifter is in the parking lot of Shari's restaurant, H95 & Ironwood/CdA.11:57 a.m. A parked Interstate trailer is blocking one lane @ 8989 Torrey/Hayden.11:34 a.m. Crystal wants to see an animal control officer re: cat traps.10:49 a.m. EMTs are responding to a medical…
In this May 18 file photo shows Seattle Mariners' Felix Hernandez in action against the Oakland Athletics during the first inning of a baseball game, in Oakland, Calif. Hernandez was chosen AL Cy Young Award winner today by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Seattle…
Wednesday Poll: 101 of 171 respondents (59.06%) consider search by full-body scanners are today's airports to be a violation of their 4th amendment rights that prohibit illegal searches. 67 of 171 (39.18%) are okay with the scans. 3 voters were undecided.Today's Poll: Do you think…
Item: Study: 1 in 4 say marriage is becoming obsolete/Hope Yen, Associated PressMore Info: As families gather for Thanksgiving this year, nearly one in three American children is living with a parent who is divorced, separated or never-married. More people are accepting the view that…
Brannon and his grandstanding lawyer, Starr Kelso, ought to be ashamed of themselves. Single-handedly, they’ve made the idea of running for City Council toxic. And if legislators don’t think the same thing could happen to them, they’re deluding themselves. The Legislature needs to fix this…
... that the Region 1 (5 northern legislative districts) voted 8-2 recently to send a letter in support of state Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol, to House Speaker Lawerence Denney. Only 10 of the 25 representatives of Region 1 were present at the meeting. An agenda…
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.
