Marquette guard Vander Blue (2) and Gonzaga forward Mangisto Arop (10) battle for a rebound during the first half of an NCAA college basketball third place game in the CBE Classic Tournament tonight in Kansas City, Mo. ESPN boxscore here And: Jim Meehan's SR game…
Last year, I was proud of myself that I've never wasted money on a snow-blower. I've always preferred to shovel snow myself, as exercise deep in the hearta winter. However, I must admit that I was covetous last night listening to my neighbors' snow-blowers as…
Madie Baker's snowball disintegrates as she throws it at a friend in a downtown park Tuesday in Seattle. A vicious storm struck the Pacific Northwest and other western states at the start of the holiday travel season, dumping heavy snow on roads, knocking out power…
We're just a few days now from one of the biggest holidays of the year! We're not talking about Thanksgiving; we mean Black Friday - the biggest shopping day of the year. But, before you brave the early morning crowds, we ask: is Black Friday…
5:43 p.m. Female reports seeing a male in a red Honda Civic with alcohol in his hand as he was pumping gas at the 7-11 Post Falls station @ Idaho & Seltice Way. He then drove off.5:39 p.m. Traffic lights are malfunctioning @ Spokane &…
In Sagle, Berry Picker Arpie reports that "It's shaping up to be a moosey winter. A one-antlered bull was seen in town near some friends, and I saw two skiing Sunday. We've lived here 12 years and this is the first moose we've seen in…
A street magician swallows a snake in Antananarivo, Madagascar Monday as he performs and later pulls them out. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)Top Cutlines:1. Saying he would never own a hybrid vehicle, Art “Snakes” Mahoney implies he never Madagascar he didn't like --…
Republican Sen. Jim Risch flies twice a week, his spokesman Brad Hoaglun said, and he's not exempt from any security checks. Hoaglun said he spoke to Risch, who said that the threats he's heard about on the Senate Intelligence Committee have led him to conclude…
As retailers continue to come out ever earlier with deals and discounts for the holidays, Black Friday may be losing its potency as the official shopping kick-off day. But Thanksgiving Eve, or Black Wednesday, is as strong as ever as one of the biggest bar…
The Coeur d’Alene School District will be closed Wednesday due to expected extreme cold, the district announced today. The National Weather Service in Spokane said it expects the low tonight to dip to minus-9 in Coeur d’Alene. Wednesday’s high will reach 9 in the Lake…
Tristan Long, front, and Hayden Symbol with the City of Spokane Water Department, remove snow from the Monroe Street Bridge Tuesday in Spokane. Bitter cold is replacing the falling snow with temperatures forecasted to be minus 8 in Spokane Wednesday. (SR photo: Colin Mulvany)Colleague Colin…
We are approaching the time of year when, if not shopping, people tend to be more friendly and in better moods. Thanksgiving. Family gatherings around bountiful tables. Even the less fortunate are usually provided with a good meal. Christmas. Holiday music can't help but cheer.…
On her "Not Really News" blog, long-time Lewiston Tribune reporter Sandra Lee offers this motion from the Central Orchards Sewer District board minutes, word for word: "Manager Larsen asked the board about purchasing holiday turkeys and hams. After some discussion, Director Berger moved to purchase…
Stickman (who took the photo above earlier today) emails: "Just a heads up that the bald eagles have started to arrive. Most years they come around the 1st of December and stay till the 1st of January. They are here early. I was out there…
... via Cindy's oldest son: "If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?"
A colleague in the Coeur d'Alene office of The Spokesman Review was amazed when she saw a female dressed to the nines in black and wearing stiletto heels emerge from the parking lot north of the old Kootenai County Courthouse a few minutes ago. However,…
Idaho Fish and Game officials are developing new rules that would allow residents to salvage road kill wildlife. The Idaho Fish and Game Commission last week directed agency staff to research and draft rules that would allow public salvage for personal use and commercial salvage,…
Motorists make their way along Coeur d'Alene Lake Drive earlier today. Gov. Otter's transportation task force delivered its long-awaited recommendations for how to fund roads in Idaho. Betsy Russell/Eye On Boise is covering the announcement on her SR blog here. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)Cartoon: A…
One of my Facebook friends is asking for prayers for two of her "invincible" teenagers who are traveling home from Utah today. Seems they've already had to change routes once because I-15 is closed north of Idaho Falls. So they headed west/north from Pocatello through…
A sledder starts downhill after a push as the Space Needle is seen behind Tuesday in Seattle's Gasworks Park. A vicious storm struck the Pacific Northwest and other western states at the start of the holiday travel season, dumping heavy snow on roads, knocking out…
11:39 a.m. 2 unwanted panhandlers are soliciting customers @ Wendy's/Canfield Ave.11:24 a.m. Injury accident is reported in front of Coeur d'Alene Honda on Seltice Way.11:22 a.m. A bale of hay is lying on H95, south of Aqua/CdA.11:21 a.m. A missing child is reported at Post…
Pecky Cox/As The Lake Churns e-mails that she "could hardly wait for daylight to take walk on the beach and see what single digit temps and wind built on beach last night."
Monday Poll: 67 of 102 respondents (65.69%) preferred to go through see-all screenings at airport security to enhanced patdowns (24 of 102, 10.78%). 11 respondents were undecided.Today's Poll: Do you consider funding for clean-water monitoring by Otter administration to be a luxury or necessity?
As you probably know, we’ve been rallying support for water quality monitoring for weeks now. We have been calling on Gov. Otter to restore funding to the budget to perform one of the basic functions under the Clean Water Act, something the Governor and legislature…
Awise man once told me "It's not what you say, it's how you say it." That statement has held true in my personal and professional life and, after seeing their new commercials, someone in Toyota's advertising department should heed those words. I'm quite frankly offended…
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.
