Taryn Veniegas, 6, right, buries her twin brother Morgan in leaves at Washington Park in Laramie, Wyo., on Thursday. The two first graders at Snowy Range Academy were occupying their time while a sibling played soccer at the park and hoped to scare a passer-by or a parent with a surprise attack using the leaves for camouflage. (AP Photo/The Laramie Boomerang, Barbara J. Perenic)

Eye On Boise: Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman encounters media buzzsaw when he arrives in Boise to push Bill Sali's candidacy here.

1. A Post Falls teenager may have come down with Kootenai County's second case of West Nile virus and perhaps the first locally contracted incident of the mosquito-borne illness this year here.

2. The move to file a class action lawsuit in an attempt to overturn Idaho's property tax code is heading toward the front burner. Nearly 400 Bonner County (Idaho) landowners upset with their latest -- and in many cases -- higher property assessments without the right to appeal packed the Panida on Thursday night anxious to hear what legal action may be store for changing the structure of property taxation in Idaho as well as providing real tax relief here.

3. A 2-year-old boy who died from kidney failure last month had been infected with the same strain of E. coli bacteria that prompted a nationwide consumer warning on fresh spinach here.

4. Ten years ago, before he was hired as a vice president at Seattle University, the Rev. Tony Harris was among three priests who made repeated homosexual overtures to a young seminary student, according to allegations in a sexual harassment suit, here.

5. As chairman of the House ethics committee, Tri-Cities Rep. Doc Hastings finds himself at the center of the congressional page scandal and allegations that Republican leaders might have handled the case improperly here (free subscription required).

6. IMHO-NW: Joan Opyr/New West (Chenoweth died as she lived -- reckless), Robert Taylor/UI Argonaut (Remember the fallen), Dan Popkey/Idaho Statesman (Twilegar best for Controller job), Brian Murphy/Idaho Statesman (Contrite Lopes tries to rekindle career in Idaho), Cartoonist Paul Tong/UI Argonaut (Subtlety), and John Blanchette/Spokesman-Review (Promising season for Spokane Chiefs).

Online Poll: A plurality of 23% of 510 respondents to a Lewiston Tribune poll picked Snickers as its favorite candy bar.

*Moscow pastor arrested on southern California sex-crime warrant here.

*Dogs kill miniature horse in Hailey, Idaho, here.

*Garrison Keillor to tape show live at WSU's Beasley Auditorium Saturday here.

*Coeur d'Alene woman dies on Oregon Coast when 10-pound rock hits pickup here. Video (free subscription required) here.

*Group from Rexburg, Idaho, wants to end liquor ban that prompted Appleby's to walk away here.

Orbusmax Special: Oregon baker "critical" after being trapped faced down in dough here.

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