Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest — 2/1/07
Dog trainer Lisa Lucas demonstrates to a gathering of federal inmates at Geiger Correction Center how to make a black lab mix from SCRAPS sit. Inmates will train dogs passed over for adoption at the animal shelter to make them more appealing to potential owners here/Dan Pelle, Spokesman-Review.
Eye On Boise: At least 2 Idahoans would pay $6K for 50-year-old bottle of scotch here.
1. Jason McElwain, or "J-Mac," the autistic teen-ager who thrilled the nation by coming off his high school's bench to sink six, three-point shots at the end of a game, is in Spokane as part of a fund-raiser -- but he can't say much about that because he's under strict orders by his agent not to say anything to the electronic media. Story here. Video of his game performance here.
2. State wildlife officials released 42 bighorn sheep from Montana in the Laramie Peak Wildlife Habitat Management Area in an effort to boost the region's herd and add genetic diversity here.
3. Nearly 11 months after he stepped down as head coach of the WSU Cougar basketball team, and recovering from hip replacement surgery, 63-year-old Dick Bennett admits the Cougars have responded better to his son, Tony, and he's loving every minute of it here.
4. Three Army Rangers based at Fort Lewis have been charged with malicious harassment for allegedly assaulting an African-American man and using a racial slur outside a Lacey bar early Friday morning here.
5. Update: A five-alarm fire this morning destroyed 70 percent of Middleton (Idaho) High School, which has a student enrollment of 750, here.
6. IMHO-NW: Gary Crooks/Spokesman-Review (Clear the air), David Horsey/Seattle PI (Taking a position on Iraq), Bert Caldwell/Spokesman-Review (WSU programs yanks poverty out by grassroots), WSU Daily Evergreen (Who should use N-word?), and Helena Independent-Record (Ole party switcheroo).
Online Poll? 60% of 694 respondents to an Idaho Statesman poll say a New Jersey school district is violating privacy rights by insisting that students submit to a urine test to determine if they've been drinking in the last 80 hours.
*Street racing in Bellingham ends in fiery flames, death here.
*Coeur d'Alene family seeks help caring for twin babies with rare birth defects here.
*A pedestrian loses while playing a game of chicken with a train at a North Idaho crossing here.
*State frog bill leaps ahead in Washington Legislature here.
Orbusmax Special: One in 6 Oregon public school students is Latino here.
