Coeur d'Alene running back Zack Keiser runs the ball against Centennial during an Idaho state high school state championship football game on Thursday at the Kibbie Dome on UI's campus in Moscow. See Greg Lee's game Twitter below. (SR photo: Tyler Tjomsland)“You can’t describe it,”…
I'm well on my way to surviving the head cold that knocked me down from mid-week on. I hope to be in decent shape Saturday to celebrate birthday No. 61 with Mrs. O and friends. Which means that I probably have 4 more years to…
Passengers move through the line at a security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Thursday in Atlanta. In a climate of Internet campaigns to shun airport pat-downs and veteran pilots suing over their treatment by government screeners, a senior Republican lawmaker is urging the country's…
For those of you keeping score at home, today -- Nov. 19 -- is World Toilet Day. Before you laugh, there's a sober side to World Toilet Day.The day was set aside to celebrate the importance of sanitation and raise awareness for the 2.5 billion…
5:46 p.m. Caller reports an unwanted female in bedroom of Captain's Apartments unit on Lincoln Way/CdA is threatening to kill apartment renter.4:54 p.m. Battery reported on Lena Louie Lane/Worley.4:31 p.m. Possible drug overdose reported on 700 block of 21st/CdA.4:36 p.m. 3 vehicles have pulled into…
The Moscow-Pullman Daily News provides this view of the first snow on the Palouse todayRegulators grant Avista rate hikes/Becky Kramer, SRPro-megaloads group claims foes aren't local/Betsy Russell, Eye On BoiseNothing subtle about Lake City's roller derby gals/Nick Rotunno, PressSpokane family demands answers after dog dies…
Russian pair skate their short program, with Yuko Kawaguti left, seen behind the legs of Alexander Smirnov as they skate their short program during Cup of Russia figure skating ISU Grand Prix event in Moscow, Russia, this morning. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)Top…
At As The Lake Churns, blogmistress Pecky Cox offers this Priest Lake photo that she labels "Fall into Winter."
Kamm: I've haven't finalized my Thanksgiving plans because I'm waiting to see If I've landed a seasonal retail job. My savings account needs some fluffing; this past year has made it very flat. The interview went well; I was willing to work any shift and…
A motorist who killed a pedestrian while intoxicated last April on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation, has been indicted by a federal grand jury. Andrea M. George, who was 18 at the time of the crash, is charged with involuntary manslaughter for the April 19…
In the last week, I've hired two different, unemployed men to do odd jobs or repairs around my house. One is a friend from church. Another is an old acquaintance. Both have spent their lives in the construction trade -- and now are trying to…
Yale student Jonathan Desnick poses with vuvuzelas in his dormitory on the Yale campus in New Haven, Conn., today. Desnick bought nearly 700 vuvuzelas after hearing Harvard's student government had asked for a ban on the horns at the upcoming NCAA college football game between…
My tattoo and I celebrated our one-year anniversary two days ago. We have been joined at the wrist since then and it has been a beautiful relationship. Although some people were not terribly excited about the addition to my body, it represents an important part…
This is finally IT, maybe. If we turn down being screened at airports by those new-fangled, incredibly invasive, nakey-nakey devices, then we must submit to a groping...where they fondle your bewbies and/or your junk. Submitting to a groping by somebody who's not getting me drunk…
Votes from Idaho Reps. Walt Minnick and Mike Simpson (pictured) helped defeat an extension of unemployment benefits in the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday. The plan would have extended benefits through February and cost $12 billion. Extended federal unemployment benefits, which can last up to…
Rebecca Pippenger reads an East Side Library book titled "10 Little Rubber Ducks" by Eric Carle, to 3-year-old students at the Southeast Day Care Center on Thursday. Children from the day care visit the library, which is just steps away, once a week. The city…
I watched in dismay as Transportation Security Administration agents, excited over their new toy, ushered those before me in line confusedly into the monstrous contraption and told them to extend their arms above their heads. I watched as a group of agents smirked at the…
The top-ranked Coeur d'Alene Vikings were understandably excited after upending the second-ranked Capital Eagles last week in the semifinals of the state 5A high school football playoffs, but Vikings coach Shawn Amos knew one thing was missing. "A lot of people were talking like the…
11:59 a.m. Two brothers-in-law are pushing each other in front of JD Resort/Bayview.11:27 a.m. Female who had her dog picked up by animal control is at the Humane Society shelter and angry that dog isn't there.11:05 a.m. Owner can't locate his large houseboat at a…
Spokane firefighters avoid layoffs under a tentative agreement accepted this week by Mayor Mary Verner. If the deal is approved by union members and City Council, Local 29 of the International Association of Fire Fighters would become the first of the city’s bargaining groups to…
For some reason, Cabbage Boy provides a link in the comments section with this note: "No reason to panic, but here is a story that screams POST ME ON HUCKLEBERRIES." Indeed, a controversial decision by Italy Premier Silvio Berlusconi to restore body parts to marble…
On Saturday, I turn 61. I'm in good company, too. Mayor Sandi Bloem and I share that birthday. So does County Coroner Bob West. For some reason, birthday No. 61 doesn't bother me a quarter as much as the last one. Mebbe this birthday means…
In responding to my post yesterday re: "Taking my cold like a man," CoeurGenX writes: "Go see a Chiropractor asap. ... a little adjustment will release the blood cells that fight and knock down the common cold. It will be gone in 24-48 hours ……
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stand during a remembrance ceremony for fallen comrades, at a round table meeting of the North Atlantic Council, during a NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal, Friday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)Question: In her latest post, Dogwalk…
From KCSD sergeant's log: “Deputy Nye and Deputy Geurin responded to the Hauser Lake Smoke Shop for a citizen assist with a female who was having a panic attack due to the snow on the roadway. Upon arrival they located a California native who had…
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.
