Idaho State Prison chaplin Cosmo Zimik breaks a pile of bricks with his foot during a martial arts demonstration today at Lakeview Park in Nampa, Idaho. Zimik will attempt to break a 1,000 bricks in 10 minutes for a new record on Saturday Sept. 23. (AP Photo/Idaho Press Tribune, Mike Vogt)

Report: Most Idaho jobs don't pay enough to cover basic living expenses here.

1. Chefs across the Inland Northwest have spiked spinach dishes and tossed out pounds of the produce after it was linked to a nationwide outbreak of food-borne illness here.
Free-lancer Milt Priggee puts the spinach E.coli scare into the proper perspective here.

2. The Pocatello Women's Correctional Center will show inmates its pulling for them by giving them a $40 handbag filled with hygiene products, creams, soaps, towels, bath sponges and other personal items upon release here.

3. Idaho’s attorney general wants to know why you are paying more at the pump than anyone else in the nation. Gas prices have dropped over the past few days, but not as fast as most would hope. We’re paying more for gas than every other state in the nation! here.

4. The instant replay official whose failure to overturn a bad call led to a narrow victory for Oregon over Oklahoma said he feels like he is under siege after receiving menacing phone calls and a death threat here. Bud Withers/Seattle Times comment here.

5. Marvin Richardson, the Constitution Party candidate for Idaho governor, has officially changed his name to Marvin Pro-Life, but he will still appear on the Idaho ballot as Marvin Richardson, according to Betsy Russell/Eye On Boise here.

6. IMHO-NW: Doug Clark/Spokesman-Review (Election bashing the way to go), Sarrah Benoit/UI Argonaut (Vandal fans, behave), Bruno Baltodano/WSU Evergreen (World needs more superheroes), Brandon Scheller/WSU Daily Evergreen (Lincoln lets Mariners crumbles), Jerry Hitchcock/Coeur d'Alene Press (A gamer is an athlete).

Online Poll: 74.8% of 1462 respondents to a Seattle PI poll say they're planning to vote in Washington's primary election today.

*Spokane's Kristianne Blake – civic activist, accountant, and sister of Microsoft's Bill Gates – has been named to the board of regents at the University of Washington here.

*The contractor running the Idaho National Laboratory has received more than $2 million in overly liberal bonus money here.

*A record Montana state pumpkin, weighing a biblically ominous 666 pounds, is touring the Bitterroot Valley here.

Orbusmax Special: Brady campaign claims Otter/KTVB have "Back-Channel Relationship" here. And: Meridian schools super apologizes for inappropriate letter here.

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