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Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest — 2/13/07

Santa Clara's Danny Pariseau (center) tosses the ball up for a basket past Gonzaga's Pierre Marie Altidor-Cespedes (right) and Matt Bouldin (right) during the second half of their college basketball victory at McCarthey Center in Spokane Monday. Pariseau, a Spokane native, discusses the thrill of snapping Gonzaga's 50-game home winning streak in Item No. 2 below/Amanda Smith, AP Photo.

Stapilus: Mebbe Idaho governor, Legislature is trapped in the '50s here.

1. Long-time "European-American" activist Stan Hess has quit the North Idaho College student newspaper staff after he disagreed with an AP stylebook change that changes a reference from "illegal aliens" to "illegal immigrants." You can find the Spokesman-Review story (as well as an e-mail exchange between Hess and the Sentinel news editor at the Huckleberries Online blog today) here.

2. Gon-Zig-Zag-a Update: Prosecutors said Monday they have up to three years to file felony drug charges against Gonzaga basketball players Josh Heytvelt and Theo Davis. The 72-hour rule applied only if police would have kept the pair jailed here (KHQ also provides a link to an interview with Danny Pariseau, a Spokane native who helped Santa Clara end Gonzaga's 50-game home winning streak Monday night). Related: SR columnist John Blanchette sez Santa Clara's 84-73 victory was no fluke here.

3. NFL QB Joey Harrington, a former Oregon Duck, has rallied support for a Oklahoma family who lost everything when a thief made away with their U-Haul ban from a Portland area motel here.
4. University of Idaho students are confronted with free-speech issues as they encounter posters advertising an organization meeting for a club for straights-only, called DangerZone, here.

5. A tanning salon owner in Pullman, Wash., has fired his entire staff -- all Washington State students -- citing sales irregularities, poor maintenance and inadequate work performance. The former staffers of Tiki Tanning, however, took to the streets in protest Monday to hand out fliers in front of the salon here.

6. IMHO-NW: Brian Murphy/Idaho Statesman (Famous racing dad takes back seat to son), Tecla Markosky/UI Argonaut (Houston, we have a problem), Jimmy Blue/WSU Evergreen (iPod bans take away basic rights), Chuck Pezeshki/Moscow-Pullman Daily News (Why is Butch afraid of big, bad wolf?), and Jim Moore/Seattle PI (Bennett, Cougs looking good).

Online Poll: 84% of 692 respondents to an Idaho Statesman poll oppose a Republican bill that would require Idahoans to designate a party affiliation to vote in spring primaries.

*Indicted fire crew boss fails to appear for arraignment on pot charge here.

*Idaho County commissioners defend actions during recovery efforts for drowning victim here.

*11-year-old comedian, banned from Boise nightclub, to open for J.J. Walker in Nampa here.

*Anchorage residents learn to live with large numbers of urban moose here.

*North Dakotan gets two-year deferred sentence over dispute about a prized bull here.

Orbusmax Special: Sea-Tac luggage handlers busted for stealing everything from credit cards, high-end electronics to cigarettes 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.