After 234-240 days incubated at 84 degrees, the Komodo Dragon baby emerges from its shell at the Memphis Zoo, Thursday, in Memphis, Tenn. The babies must "pip" to start breathing the air. Some embryos have a temporary egg tooth with which to crack, pip, or…
I haven't had much cabin fever this winter as a result of almost-daily walks of 2 to 3 miles. Funny how winter weather can be intimidating if you stay inside huddled next to the fire place. However, if you get out in it, you realize…
Calling all slackers. Worried about what you’re gonna do if those extended unemployment benefits ever run out? Options abound for the marginally skilled in Spokane. Some call them slacker jobs but you can call them non-traditional career paths if you want. They include: Sleep study…
Bonner County Sheriff Daryl Wheeler (pictured in Bonner County Web site photo) is letting the public know where he stands as the debate over gun control rages in Washington, D.C. “I’ve been a strong advocate of the Second Amendment and I’m always going to stand…
Betsy Russell/Eye on Boise writes: "These Senate pages, at the suggestion of a legislative staffer, are enjoying the best view in the Statehouse -- the view straight up from the middle of the rotunda. Amid the ornate concentric circles of the Capitol's center, the young…
Sheldon Meuer, of the SR circulation department, was treated to this $26, five-pound hamburger at the Sweet Grass Cafe at the Coeur d'Alene Casino this afternoon. He told me that a sixth of the burger, dubbed Welcome Home Burger, was the equivalent to the hamburger…
4:58 p.m. Weaving, tail-gating car may have hit another vehicle @ e/b I-90/MP 12 (H95). 4:41 p.m. Out-of-control son kicking walls, father @ H41/E. 12th Ave/PF. 4:36 p.m. Local woman is afraid distraught husband will harm her & "shoot up the neighborhood." 4:32 p.m. Caller…
Dan Webster/Dually Noted turns thumbs down on "Gangster Squad": If you’ve read Paul Lieberman’s nonfiction book “Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles,” or the series of L.A. Times stories that inspired it, you know all about the corruption that…
Some “big fat liars” (to use a term we did in childhood) have been exposed this week. First, the Notre Dame scandal where many people likely are lying, not just footballl player Manti Te'o. And now Lance Armstrong finally admitting to what everyone knew. He…
This aerial shows a frozen over Avondale Lake, a small lake near Hayden Lake was photographed by Jesse Tinsley/SR on Saturday, Jan. 5. End Notes: Secret to not lying/Rebecca Nappi The Slice: One touque over the line/Paul Turner Dually Noted: Princess Pop/Tricia Jo Webster Idaho…
Molly Cleland, two and a half, pushes her car through the snow in Jackson, Miss., Thursday. A winter storm system left 2 to 4 inches of snow in parts of central Mississippi before heading east toward Alabama, the National Weather Service said. (AP Photo/Rogelio V.…
If you missed the Coeur d'Alene TV Channel 19 broadcast and haven't seen the video, you can still read the exchanges between the Coeur d'Alene City Council and School Board that resulted in a tentative deal to preserve Person Field and Bryan Playfield as recreation…
If you’re a band of antigovernment “Patriots” pitching a plan to build a walled city in North Idaho and manufacture handguns and assault rifles there, you might expect raised eyebrows, a little criticism. But potshots from other Patriots? Potshots, indeed, are flying at III Arms…
JohnA (re: 2nd amendment rally set Saturday): "I can just see the crowd now. A sea of red-checked flannel and camo, testosterone-heavy and snoose a-spittin’, sporting two day old beards and an array of guns to rival any penis-envy competition. And, that’s just the women.…
Two leading religious groups on Friday voiced support for President Obama's call for Congress to appropriate $10 million for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to study gun violence and possible links to violent video games and media images. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops…
First, the owner of a smoothie bar in Vernal is charging liberals more for a cup of juice. Now, a Cedar City business owner who let two workers go because of Obamacare costs said he picked the pair in large part because of their support…
On her Facebook page, Linda Lantzy posts: "The Coeur d'Alene River cuts a dark swath through the snowy landscape, Idaho Panhandle National Forest." Question: Describe your favorite North Idaho winter scene?
11:15 a.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Jan. 17-18 here. 10:54 a.m. Female driver suffering seizure in parked mini-van @ w/b I-90/Pleasantview, PF. 10:49 a.m. Hayden WalMart/Honeysuckle security reports catching cooperative shoplifter. 10:43 a.m. ISP shuts H95 temporarily while tow truck removes disabled…
Following are a list of the candidates to replace retiring 1st District Court Judge John Luster: Bryant E. Bushling. a deputy prosecutor for Kootenai County John A. Cafferty, deputy prosecutor for Kootenai County Richard Christensen, St. Maries lawyer Edwin B. Holmes, Coeur d'Alene lawyer Cynthia…
Macaylee Godin watches a highlight video with the Seattle Mariner's mascot during an assembly Thursday at Borah Elementary in Coeur d'Alene. (Coeur d'Alene Press photo: Jerome A. Pollos) The Moose stole the show, as he's apt to do. The message from the professional ballplayers was…
The Transportation Security Administration has announced that it will remove the controversial "naked image" body scanners from US airports because developers can't write software to make the images less revealing. The scanners, made by OSI Systems Inc, have ruffled feathers since they were first rolled…
Heather Freeman and Kylie Martonik are completely nerding out. In the back room of the Comic Book Shop on North Division in Spokane, their voices get progressively louder as they talk superhero films. The good ones, the bad ones, the so-so ones. “Look at the…
Idaho Republican Reps. Raul Labrador and Mike Simpson couldn't muster a "yes" vote when their Northeast colleagues needed them the most. Labrador and Simpson thumbed their noses at a bill designed to provide billions to Hurricane Sandy victims. Despite Labrador's, Simpson's and 178 other "no"…
Gonzaga's Kelly Olynyk, right, and Gary Bell, Jr., left, battle for the ball with Portland guard Oskars Reinfelds during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Portland, Ore., Thursday. Gonzaga won 71-49. Story here. (AP Photo/Don Ryan) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR Idaho…
NFL field goal kickers aren't the only living things that get "iced." On his Facebook wall, Robin Loznak of Kellogg, Ore., posts this photo of a spider web encased in ice Wednesday morning. You can see more of Robin's outdoor photography on his Facebook wall…
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.
