MAIN STREET: Post Falls grandma loves her sailors

Chris Pappas is the daughter of a World War II Army pilot and the sister of an Army soldier who made the ultimate sacrifice on the battlefield in Vietnam. She’s also the grandmother of four, three of whom are all wearing the uniform of the U.S. Navy. When Chase Price and Haylie Price graduated from the Navy’s Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill. last week they followed in their brother’s footsteps. Spencer Price graduated from RTC in April of this year.

Iraq driving up gas prices

Violence in Iraq is helping to make gasoline in the U.S. more expensive, depriving drivers of the usual price break between Memorial Day and July Fourth.

They're back: J.C. Penney adds sales

Vintage Stock replacing Hastings

Business Bits

Vintage Stock will take over the space of the Hastings store “going out of business” at 101 E. Best Ave.

Post Falls students help with Japan disaster

POST FALLS - One math problem, licorice strand and coin at a time, local students are making a difference to victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

RALPH BARTHOLDT: From Honer's dad to you - a good wish for a new year

Most of my pal Honer’s meals started with onions frying in a pan.

Auto industry has best January since 2008

Detroit, Toyota see big U.S. sales gains

True story: You can buy unclaimed packages

Websites offer unclaimed merchandise for sale.

Virus fears fuel spike in sales of guns and ammunition

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The world's largest gun store, in metro Atlanta, has had lines that are six and eight people deep. A gun store in Los Angeles had lines that stretched down the block. And at least one store in Idaho put limits on sales after its shelves were nearly cleared out.

Market stabilization continues

As we had hoped, the May statistics as presented by the Coeur d'Alene Multiple Listing Service show improved performance in several areas. Coeur d'Alene and Dalton continue the upward momentum seen the previous months with the May statistics showing improvement in number of homes sold and in average price of those homes.

Bad news, good news

Woman's car, gifts stolen, then son visits unexpectedly

Done with The Duke?

Texas movie set used by John Wayne fading away

BRACKETTVILLE, Texas - Time and Mother Nature are threatening to dismantle the Alamo. Not the original, but the replica 18th-century Spanish mission and Old West movie set John Wayne built for his Oscar-nominated 1960 movie and that for decades was a tourist mecca and film production site.

Hayden man sentenced to 25 to life for child sex charges

COEUR d’ALENE — A 53-year-old Hayden sex offender who was lauded by friends and family as someone who takes responsibility for his actions, was sentenced Wednesday to more than 25 years behind bars after he tried to convince a Coeur d’Alene judge that his charges had been inaccurately portrayed.

A core turnaround

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple's stock touched a new high Wednesday, reflecting investors' renewed faith in CEO Tim Cook's ability to outwit the competition and expand the technological hit factory built by the late Steve Jobs.

Supreme motivation should change in tough times

After many decades of being a business owner and salesman, I have never, ever changed my Golden Rule of Selling: Know Your Customer.

AP Explains: What did the Federal Reserve do Sunday and why?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Brandishing an array of financial weapons, the Federal Reserve announced extraordinary action Sunday to try to blunt the heavy damage the coronavirus outbreak has begun to inflict on the U.S. economy.

Credit cards not so secure

Weak US card security made Target a juicy target

Cheers and Jeers for March 31, 2020

Jeers to the schools shutting down, but giving out food and telling people and kids to social distance. What do you think happens when you hand out food? Adults and kids see each other and meet and talk. What about workers being sick? If you want people to stay home then don’t set them up to go out.

Timber event has international feel

Foreign buyers aplenty at log conference

COEUR d'ALENE - Asian buyers are hungry to make a deal with Northwest timber firms.

Land available near Athol and Silverwood

Neighborhood of the Week for July 4