I'm still shaking cob webs off, after a week's vacay, first hosting relatives in Coeur d'Alene and then watching Amy Dearest receive her master's degree in family counseling in Portland. Mrs. O received quite an eyeful Saturday when she decided to buy a treat for…
A little girl stands in front of a fountain during nice and sunny weather at the Alexanderplatz square in Berlin, Germany, Monday. (AP Photo/dpa, Ole Spata)
A Spokane woman who shaved her head as a show of solidarity for her sister who has cancer quit her job at Northern Quest Casino after she was made to feel embarrassed for shaving her head. Friends and family who shave their heads in support…
5:12 p.m. Sports car speeding @ 100 mph on w/b I-90/MP 16.5 (Mullan Trail/CdA). 5:02 p.m. 4-foot piece of metal roofing laying in right lane of w/b I-90/State Line. 4:49 p.m. Red pickup has hit piece of construction equipment @ H95/Bunco Road, Athol. 4:26 p.m.…
Firefighters protest in their underwear against austerity measures in Sabadell, Spain, earlier today. Spain has been in recession for the best part of the past four years as the economy battles to recover from the collapse of its once-booming real estate sector. You write the…
Idaho Republicans took a stand on Common Core over the weekend — but stopped well short of outright rejection of the controversial educational standards. Meeting in McCall on Saturday, the GOP’s state Central Committee passed a resolution rejecting “the collection of personal student data for…
John Shearer, sitting with his wife Teresa, center, and friend Fran Brown, left, cruises down Sherman with his car club, the Wenatchee Valley Cruisers, before the start of the annual Friday night cruise in downtown Coeur d'Alene. Shearer is driving his restored 1943 Army troop…
Dressed in a blue shirt with a big white kitty on the front, 3-year-old Danika Packard sat on the courtroom bench eating cereal from a plastic baggy and smiling at anyone who caught her attention. The happy little girl gave no indication of the horror…
During my daily walk along the waterfront, I saw that tent city is beginning to emerge at City Park for Ironman Coeur d'Alene this weekend. 2 or 3 tents were up. And items to block off the park and set up the bike transition area…
Sports teams at eastern Idaho’s Teton High School will still be known as the Redskins — at least for now. District Superintendent Monte Woolstenhulme still believes the school should drop the nickname, but the name and the school logo will remain intact for the time…
Like more than 200,000 American men annually I was diagnosed recently with prostate cancer. Next to skin cancer, prostate cancer in the most commonly occurring cancer among American men. The disease claimed more than 28,000 lives in 2009, the last year for which we have…
Marianne Love/Slight Detour (red shirt above) had a busy father's day weekend that included herding cattle. You can read about it here. Too late to cry/Arch Druid Best laid plans/A Butterfly Moment I'm Marc's prostate/Johnson Report It's only money, ours/Dogwalk Musings 2 different attitudes/From A…
Franklin County sheriff's deputies are looking for a Sandpoint, Idaho, woman who disappeared while stopping at a fruit stand near Pasco. Deputy George Rapp tells the Tri-City Herald (http://bit.ly/19KiNWl ) that 21-year-old Rashelle Klontz has been missing since around 3 p.m. Sunday when she stopped…
A Coeur d’Alene woman has filed a federal lawsuit against President Barack Obama and top national security officials, contending that collection of information about her Verizon cellphone use violates the law and the Constitution. Her attorneys are Idaho state Rep. Luke Malek, R-Coeur d’Alene, a…
Breast cancer survivor Jacqueline Spears-Williams smiles as she receives a rose at the finish of the 15th Annual Susan G. Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure in St. Louis on Saturday. The breast cancer charity announced today that it has named Judith A. Salerno…
A Facebook Friend writes: "After wringing my spleen with stress for weeks, decided to stay put in the same house for an 11th year. Having a Not Moving sale in a few weeks. To you unlucky folks in CdA looking for a rental house right…
Americans are polarized about many things, it seems, but , they agree that the United States should stay out of the Syrian conflict. Seventy percent of those polled said they oppose the U.S. and its allies sending arms to anti-government groups in Syria. Just 20…
Former Coeur d’Alene Mayor Ray Stone, a World War II veteran, educator and jazz musician, died Sunday. Stone served on the City Council from 1971 to 1979 and served two terms as mayor, from 1986 to 1993. Al Hassell followed him as mayor. “He had…
Miss Connecticut Erin Brady is crowned the winner of the Miss USA 2013 pageant by Nana Meriwether, Sunday, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Jeff Bottari) A Facebook Friend writes: "Watching Miss USA..don't judge! The panel of judges is laughable. Listening to the answers to the interview…
12:02 p.m. Assistant manager in black-and-white blouse sez everything OK @ Washington Trust. 11:53 a.m. Silent holdup alarm sounding @ Washington Trust, Seltice Way, PF. 11:45 a.m. Dog left in vehicle @ Hayden WalMart, 550 W. Honeysuckle, Hayden. 11:40 a.m. 88YO male has eyes open…
Racing pigeons owned by the Chairman of the Taipei County Pigeon Racing Association, Yeh Cheng-shen, sit in an elaborate set of rooftop cages in Taipei County, Taiwan. After a trip to Taiwan last December, Idaho resident Jos Zamzow is betting his company can develop and…
Idaho, like other states, has gained some protections for its LGBT community through municipal ordinances banning discrimination in housing and employment. It seems the Idaho State GOP just can’t stand that fact! Yesterday at their annual Central Committee summer meeting the Republican Party leaders of…
Republican leaders in Idaho on Saturday dumped a plan calling for party officials to vet GOP primary election candidates, the AP reports. The rejection came at the Republican Party Central Committee's summer meeting in McCall, where the state's dominant political group was setting its policy…
If ever a group ought to band together and demand a boost in the minimum wage, it is the wage slaves of Idaho. No state has a larger share of its workers earning the minimum wage than Idaho, where the rate of people pulling down…
In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column Friday, opinionator Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune offers jeers ... ... to Idaho Gov. C.L. (Butch) Otter. Last year, Otter pulled $35 million from a wobbly state budget and handed it over to Idaho's corporations and well-off…
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.
