Arp Elementary kindergartner Malakie Judd, 5, attempts to keep eight hula hoops going during a carnival in the gymnasium Thursday morning, Feb. 8, 2007, in Cheyenne, Wyo. Malakie and other students were rewarded with the carnival for good behavior over the previous quarter/Michael Smith, AP Photo/Wyoming Tribune Eagle.

Stapilus: Prez wannabe Mitt Romney wooing Idaho Republicans into camp here.

1. Three soldiers of the 321st Engineer Battalion (Corps)(Combat)(Mechanized), headquartered in Boise, were killed in an improvised explosive device attack on their vehicle in Karmah, Al Anbar province, Iraq, Thursday. Two were injured here.

2. Antique gambling equipment, including a roulette wheel dating to the 1880s, was seized from an antique store in Whitefish, Mont., by state agents under a state law prohibiting the possession of unlicensed gambling equipment here.

3. A 53-year-old NW Montana woman who became disoriented in heavy fog spent 29 hours in the woods and was approached by wolves before she was rescued Thursday morning. Elizabeth Dacus was wearing only a T-shirt, pants and tennis shoes when she stepped outside her home at about 2 a.m. Wednesday to check on brawling cats -- and got lost here.

4. When the St. Anthony sand dunes were voted the number one recreational dunes in the country by an all-terrain vehicle magazine last year, city officials didn't want the records to stop there. Now the Idaho city is trying for the world's biggest ATV parade here.

5. After having the highest ever university-wide enrollment at WSU last spring, figures for this spring showed a hefty enrollment decrease. The head count on the Pullman campus from spring 2006 to 2007 decreased by 406 students. From spring 2005 to 2006, the student body in Pullman shrunk by just 19 here.

6. IMHO-NW: Frank McGovern/UI Argonaut (Liability waivers contrary to high-ed goals), Frank Sennett/7 (Beating the red light cam), Idaho Statesman (Land selloff puts squeeze on Congress), Tyler Wilson/Coeur d'Alene Press (From Dr. Phil to Carbon Leaf contest winner), and Leaning Straight Up (Anna Nicole Smith).

Online Poll: 62% of 379 respondents to a Great Falls Tribune poll say that a seatbelt violation shouldn't be a primary cause for a traffic stop here.

*The man accused in Kootenai County’s largest child pornography bust waived his preliminary hearing here.

*Oregon man shoots snorkler in the head after mistaking him for a rodent here.

*Federal jury acquits 3 Pullman, Wash., officers of using excessive force here.

*Serial women's panty thief nabbed at BYU-Idaho (Rexburg) campus here.

Orbusmax Special: Drunk bicyclist struck by DUI driver in Portland here.

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