My home Mac Book gave up the ghost during the Christmas vacation, so decided to go all PC. It simplifies programming and interaction between my home and office computers. But I'll miss the Mac with its intuitive programming and cleaner design. I can see how…
A man rides a horse through a bonfire in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, Wednesday, in honor of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals. On the eve of Saint Anthony's Day, hundreds ride their horses trough the narrow cobblestone streets of the small village…
A coworker was divulging a story of how she got carded at Walmart over the New Years weekend. She was surprised and her husband thought it was hilarious. Why might it be funny? First, she's about the same age as my parents. Second, she was…
Coeur d'Alene Police Department news release: At about 10:45 p.m. last Friday, a 21 year-old female reported to police that she had just been attacked by a male while walking in the area of West Hubbard Avenue and North College Drive, near North Idaho College.…
On her Facebook wall, Linda Lantzy/Idaho Scenic Images posts a cutline for this picture-card-perfect photo that she snapped today that says simply: "It's a very white day in North Idaho." Indeed. Fog coming off Lake Coeur d'Alene at noon today was stunning. You can see…
... Technically challenged U.S. Sen. Jim Risch is the last of Idaho delegation to join the Twittersphere. You can follow him @SenatorRisch. I remember interviewing Risch and his wife when he was first running for the U.S. Senate. He didn't have much use for the…
4:53 p.m. Undisclosed medical emergency reported at apartments @ 205 E. Anton/CdA. 4:40 p.m. Someone has been injured in a fall in 14500 block of Coeur d'Alene St/Rathdrum. 4:31 p.m. Flames coming from beneath 3/4-ton pickup w/flat tire parked along e/b I-90/Rose Jct. 4:29 p.m.…
First Lady Michelle Obama rings in her 49th birthday today with a positive public image, a new CBS News/ New York Times poll shows. Fifty-one percent of Americans hold a favorable opinion of the first lady, according to the poll, conducted January 11-15. Just 13…
oise attorney John Runft has addressed a point that ought to be put to gun advocates coast to coast. But did he address it as they would – and has he thought through the implications? Interviewed on KIVI-TV in Nampa, he was enthusiastic in his…
"I had stood in the yard or at the kitchen window long enough, eyeing that clear blue sky behind Schweitzer," Marianne Love/Slight Detour. "On other days over the past week, I could see---under the fog or cloud blankets---that Schweitzer was getting sunshine, and we weren't.…
On his Slice blog, Paul Turner posts: "OK, well, do you remember…Gathering several pounds of coins prior to making an important long-distance call? Stepping into a phone booth and quickly realizing someone had used it as a latrine? Waiting for someone to finish a call…
These file photos, Oct. 7, 2009, left, and Nov. 28, 2012, right, shows President Barack Obama speaking in Washington. Four years after he was the fifth-youngest president to take the oath of office, Barack Obama now is 51, his hair more gray, his face more…
I promise to get off this soap bucket soon, but it's necessary to get a few more of these greenies-as-fraud stories written before they fade from hard-drive memory. Our next story is set in the Canadian Arctic, New York City, Washington, D.C. (whence all things…
Controversy over Gov. Butch Otter’s appointment of Joan Hurlock of Buhl to the Idaho Fish & Game Commission is delaying the Senate confirmation hearing on the appointment, with Senate Resources Chairman Monty Pearce, R-New Plymouth, scheduling a hearing tomorrow for Otter’s other June 2012 appointee,…
Some of you will remember Toadman of bygone days here at HucksOnline. Recently, Toadman wrote an open letter to President Obama asking that he release the White House beer recipe. Toad's letter was in response to an NPR question: "What do you want President Obama…
At Blogfest VIII, Don Sausser snapped this photo of the Huckleberries Online brain trust -- Cindy, Christa and DFO. You can find more photos of the last Blogfest here. It's official! Blogfest IX, the annual get together of the denizens of Huckleberries Online, is a…
Idaho has the 16th lowest smoking rate in the nation, the head of the Division of Public Health at the state Department of Health & Welfare told lawmakers yesterday. “However, we still have 17.2 percent of our adult population smoking,” Elke Shaw-Tulloch told JFAC. And…
A federal judge has rejected a request that the courtroom be closed for part of a convicted murderer’s mental competency hearing. The Idaho Statesman reported U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge made the ruling today in the competency hearing of Joseph Edward Duncan III. An appellate…
Pauline Friedman Phillips, who under the name of Abigail Van Buren, wrote the long-running “Dear Abby” advice column that was followed by millions of newspaper readers throughout the world, has died. She was 94. Publicist Gene Willis of Universal Uclick said Phillips died Wednesday after…
JBelle (Medical workers should get shots): I’ve gone both ways and after that one year where I had the flu 9 months in a row, I will never be without a flu shot. And if you use airplanes in the course of your job, you…
Earlier this week, Kerri Thoreson and Joe Paisley/KVNI-AM 1080 Interviewed author Jon Wells re: his new book, "Shipwrecked: A peoples' history of the Seattle Mariners." Wells later read from his book and signed autographs at Hastings. Of his book, KVNI Facebook Friend Jeff Cox comments:…
11:51 a.m. Someone was injured in a fall @ H53/Black Lake Road, St. Maries. 11:35 a.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Jan. 16-17 here. 11:28 a.m. Passenger complaining of chest pain after T-bone 2-car crash on Chilco Road, west of H95/Chilco. Passenger needs…
Former C.M. Russell High football star and NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf has been moved from a Lewistown treatment center to the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, state officials confirmed Thursday. Leaf, who was sentenced by District Judge Kenneth Neill to a five-year commitment to…
Twin Falls Times-News reporter Melissa Davlin reports that a “quiet wave of kindness” is sweeping through Idaho’s Capitol. The reason: Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill (pictured), R-Rexburg, is asking friends and colleagues to do 37 small acts of kindness in memory of his son,…
After Col. David Brasuell presented the budget request to JFAC this morning for the Idaho Division of Veterans Services, Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, (pictured) asked about the division’s excess funds, for which Brasuell had outlined an evaluation process the department is working through to determine…
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.
