APhoto Cutline: U.S. Senator Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and Vice President Dick Cheney during a celebration for Craig's 60th birthday Monday in Boise here.

Was he exposing himself or wasn't he? During a visit to Spokane, a federal judge was accused by two joggers of peculiar behavior. He sez he was checking a suspicious looking mole on his leg. They say that he was looking at a cell phone with his back turned while moving his arm in a way that suggested masturbation here. And Spokesman-Review humor columnist Doug Clark, of course, has a field day with the situation here.

1. David Horsey/PI doodles about Israel's change in plans for the Gaza Strip here, and the Lars Larson Gallery looks at the danger posed by cowsharks here.

2. President Bush will pause from his Texas vacation Wednesday to speak in Nampa, Idaho, here.

3. "A King County judge has ruled that an advertising blitz last fall against Democratic attorney general candidate Deborah Senn was illegal because the ads attacked her directly but didn't disclose who was paying for them," according to the PI, here.

4. Methodist Camp official claims 96 girls weren't at risk during Flathead Lake stay because possible rabid bats were flying overhead and not staying in their cabin belfry here.

5. Three stolen wiener dogs from Moyie Springs, Idaho, were at the center of a host of crimes that have landed an itinerant couple in prison, according to Mike Weland/Kootenai Valley Press, here.

6. IMHO-NW: Walla Walla Union Bulletin (Community spirit thrives in Pomeroy), Nicole Brodeur/Seattle Times (Guiding women at midlife), Missoulian (Too many fund-raisers?), Larry Stone/Seattle Times (Felix giving hope to sad-sack M's), and John Levesque/PI (Mariner fan base cracking).

Coeur d'Alene Police survey of 136 sex crimes against juveniles from 2000-2005: 97.8% committed by family, friends, neighbors here.

*Pomeroy wildfire 65% contained here.

*Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne is defending his use of a campaign slush fund, er, credit card here.

*North Idaho tourism finally has fully recovered from the terrorism attacks here.

Orbusmax provides the rest of the Northwest here.

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