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Huckleberries Best of the Northwest — 10/17/05

A firefighter picks up debries after a small single-engine plane crashed near Paine Field airport in Everett, Wash., Saturday morning, Oct. 15, 2005, killing all three people on board, according to the Federal Aviation Administration/Dustin Snipes, Seattle Times. See Item No. 3.

1. Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist David Horsey/PI not only doodles about new lap dancing regs for Seattle here, but he writes about his connection with the Coeur d'Alene Indian reservation here.

2. The FBI is investigating the theft of a ceremonial tomahawk believed to be the weapon used to kill Dr. Marcus Whitman, the 19th century missionary and one of the leaders of Northwest settlement, according to the AP, here.

3. The deaths of two teenagers and a volunteer pilot near Everett, Wash., Saturday were the first in a nationwide program to provide students with their first flights in small aircraft here. More here.

4. Boisean writes about canine pals in lates "Chicken Soup" book here.

5. Deputies who faked chase in downtown Spokane put on administrative leave here.

6. IMHO-NW: D.F. Oliveria/Spokesman-Review (Monday's Huckleberries), Dan Popkey/Idaho Statesman (GOP enters Boise city politics), Jim Kershner, Spokesman-Review (Warming to ugly fashion), Amelia Veneziano/WSU Evergreen (No need to suffer in silence), and Doug Clark, Spokesman-Review (Feeling Like 300 Million Bucks).

*Washington releases 871 pages detailing decades of sexual abuse allegations involving Morning Star Boys' Ranch staff and residents here.

*WSU regents honor the only alum to win the Nobel Prize here.

*Spokane Riverfront Park users will no longer have to worry about pigeon poop from above here.

*State and federal health officials are trying to get to the bottom of nine reported cases of suspected brain-wasting Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in Idaho this year here.

Orbusmax provides the rest of the Northwest here.



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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.