Huckleberries Best of the Northwest — 7/25/05
Former Gonzaga star Ronny Turiaf looks away from reporters as he talks about the medical condition that will prevent him from playing for the LA Lakers. See first asterisked item below.
Inside a former Starbucks warehouse, Seattle's bomb squad headquarters, the police chief and 15 captains and sergeants -- accompanied by a robot that can extract explosives from packages and pin down a suspect -- huddled the other day on a topic suddenly urgent to police across the nation: suicide bombers/Sarah Kershaw, NY Times, here.
1. David Horsey/PI follows Dems attempts to corner Karl Rove here.
2. For a cool $25 million, you can buy the smaller of billionaire Paul Allen's San Juan Islands property here.
3. An ailing Spokane teen who gained fame last year when she met President George Bush has succumbed to cystic fibrosis here.
4. The worst child molesters in the state of Idaho are unsupervised, according to Betsy Russell, Spokesman-Review, here. Also: An ex-Washington perv who could be the nation's most prolific child molesters was crafting a lengthy memoir about his sexual exploits with boys when he was arrested here.
5. A group of neighbors put their money where their mouths in showing its support for a young North Idaho soldier on leave from Iraq, according to D.F. Oliveria's Monday Huckleberries here.
6. IMHO-NW: Rebecca Nappi (Polio, sex offender scares alike), Missoulian (Surrendering liberty for safety), Walla Walla Union Bulletin (Ignoring VA funding problems outrageous), Dan Popkey/Idaho Statesman (Idaho House Speaker's radical insurance idea), and Tri-City Herald (What's the beef with Rep. Hastings?, free subscription required).
*Gonzaga U officials say there was nothing in former star Ronny Turiaf's past to indicate that he had a serious heart condition that would prevent him from playing pro basketball this year here.
*Climber David Mahre, 77, the father of two Olympians, has died in Tacoma after undergoing emergency heart surgery here.
*A cattle truck flipped on Interstate 90 near Coeur d'Alene Sunday, stopping traffic for miles in both directions here.
*BNSF Railway is seeking $18 million from the firms who constructed the faulty refueling depot on the North Idaho line that was forced to close for a time earlier this year due to serious leaks here.
Orbusmax provides the rest of the Northwest here.
