I posted this Wild Card early because I thought I would be at the dentist longer than I was this morning. Got business taken care of quickly. And I'm here now to start countdown to Election Day. If this week is like most weeks in…
Ken Royster of Anchorage captures an image of the setting full moon from a pullout along Turnagain Arm south of Anchorage, Alaska, on Monday morning. (AP Photo/Anchorage Daily News, Marc Lester)
A secretive group that underwrote more than $200,000 in TV campaign commercials in favor of three Idaho school reform ballot measures must disclose its donors by Wednesday, a 4th District judge ruled this afternoon. Judge Mike Wetherell (pictured) ordered Education Voters of Idaho to disclose…
County Clerk Cliff Hayes and Administrative Judge John Mitchell (shown talking to an inmate involved in Mental Health Drug Court) are involved in a flap re: who is responsible for the District Court employee supervision and budget -- and deciding increases in compensation for bailiffs,…
Asante Children's Choir member Isaie Vyiringiro, dances during an assembly at Fernan Elementary in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho on Friday. The group is from East Africa and is in the middle of a ten-month tour of the U.S. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Wet week ahead in…
5:27 p.m. Caller reports reckless driver ran several red lights before pulling into Bank of America lot, H95 & Appleway/CdA. 4:42 p.m. Caller reports vicious dogs in 6300 block of Hargrave/PF. 4:37 p.m. CPD officers are searching for female runaway named Cheyenne, last seen this…
At Stebbijo's Place, Stebbi experiments w/a spooky fingers recipe: "The scary part is removing the nail and placing it back on the bed of oozing blood. Don't burn yourself! Surprisingly easy! Test batch - Successful! You can make these as ghoulish as you want -…
That winter’s near you can’t deny when studded snows start clicking by. The Bard of Sherman Avenue
"Facebook politics, update 5: Vote No on Propositions 1, 2 and 3: 15,926 likes. Vote Yes: 927" -- Melissa Davlin, Twin Falls Times News via Twitter.
The latest campaign commercial opposing Idaho's school reform ballot measures draws on a variety of criticisms of the measures to suggest they hamper teachers in doing their jobs. “We want to give your children the best education - but the Luna laws make that harder,”…
Nampa trick-or-treaters dressed as famous paintings -- Ty Sherman, 10, as "The Scream," Kaesha Jackson, 10, as the "Mona Lisa," and Sam Sherman, 7, as "American Gothic" -- pose for a photo at this year's Boo at the Zoo Boise in Boise on Saturday. Gov.…
A construction crane atop a luxury high-rise dangles precariously over the streets after collapsing in high winds from Hurricane Sandy on Monday in New York. Hurricane Sandy bore down on the Eastern Seaboard's largest cities Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial…
Mitt Romney (in Ohio today in AP photo inset) gained a point over President Obama, according to a Gallup daily tracking poll released Monday, and now holds a healthy 5-percentage-point national lead. Romney took 51 percent support in the poll of likely voters, compared to…
The great thing about the United States is that voters have the last word. And that should give many Idaho GOP candidates pause. Think of the sinking feeling that Rep. Phil Hart (pictured), the timber thief and tax cheat from North Idaho, must have felt…
Michelle Cole, a former Statehouse reporter for the Twin Falls Times-News and Idaho Statesman, is leaving The Oregonian for Gallatin Public Affairs. Cole will be the firm's first director of content and research, according to a news release. Gallatin has offices in Boise, Portland, Seattle…
After checking to make sure his boat line is secure, Bob Casseday crosses the waist high flooded street just over the bridge along Savannah Road in Lewes, Del., to get back home as Hurricane Sandy hits Delaware today. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday,…
11:45 a.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Oct. 28-29 here. 11:38 a.m. Green Ford Explorer @ H41 & Mullan/PF was passing in school zone in Rathdrum. 11:37 a.m. Stolen vehicle left behind by driver who ran into Hauser area woods is stuck in…
Weekend Poll: 41% (57 of 139 respondents) of Hucks Nation has enrolled their children in private or alternative schools (charter, virtual, etc.) at one time or another, The weekend poll question was asked after Rep. Vito Barbieri encouraged Evangelicals to pull their children from "godless"…
While Idaho's teachers union has been accused of union thuggery during the intense campaign on Propositions 1, 2 and 3, the state ranks just 36th in union strength nationwide, according to a study released Monday by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Education Reform Now.…
Participants are bombarded with color during The Color Run along ParkCenter Boulevard Saturday in Boise. Runners in the 5K run were splashed with colored chalk and then partied at the finish line in clouds of multicolored fun. (Idaho Statesman photo: Darin Oswald) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins,…
An religious devotee buries his head in sand to relax and to collect coins which some of the pilgrims had placed near him in Allahabad, India, Monday. Allahabad on the confluence of the rivers Ganges and Yamuna is one of Hinduism's important centers. You write…
Update: Gesser: UI will visit in offseason possibly monitoring or limiting Twitter among players. Says Elmo's suspension was for more than his tweet -- Josh Wright via SR sports tweet. A University of Idaho football player who put out a tweet criticizing the school's athletic…
The Idaho Statesman has listed seven legislative races to watch in Idaho, including the District 2 matchup between Republican Ed Morse and Democrat Dan English. The Statesman says this about that race: "This is the seat that was held by Republican Phil Hart. Hart’s years…
“I think everyone should have a major storm named after them once in their life,” emailed Sandy Tarbox. “Should I be clipping all the great headlines that include my name?/Paul Turner, The Slice blog. Sandy gains power & heads for northeast/AP Question: Do you have…
A pumpkin patch on the South Hill has become the target of vandals. Sometime after 8 p.m. Saturday, someone smashed hundreds of pumpkins in the parking lot of Our Lady of Fatima on 33rd Avenue. "Oh, it's crazy I don't get it," said Mark Sullivan,…
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.
