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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 12, 2009

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APhoto Of The Day -- 8.12.09 

From left, models Alessandra Ambrosio, Lindsay Ellingson, Marisa Miller and Emanuela de Paula help Victoria's Secret celebrate the 10-year anniversary of 'The Body By Victoria Collection' on Tuesday in New York. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)Top Cutlines:1. Uh, Dave, I know you just…

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PM Scanner Traffic -- 8.12.09 

6:00 p.m. Woman wants officer assistance after putting man under citizen's arrest for leaving his dogs in a parked vehicle @ Fred Meyer's. 5:30 p.m. Officer wonders if nearby construction is causing traffic lights @ H41 & Poleline to malfunction.4:43 p.m. Standing water is creating…

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Beau Henneman, 5, chews on a piece of bananna bread while attending a gathering at Colville City Park with his mother, Jamie, August 12, 2009.  Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers addressed a crowd on Health care reform.  DAN PELLE danp@spokesman.com (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)

Somethin' To Chew On 

Beau Henneman, 5, chews on a piece of banana bread while attending a gathering at Colville City Park with his mother, Jamie, today. Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers addressed a crowd on health care reform. (Dan Pelle/SR)Question: Which would you rather do -- chew banana bread…

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HBO Blogosphere -- 8.12.09 

"I am launching a second blog!" posts Wayward Episcopalian. "Wayward will remain my personal and religious blog, but Blue Moose Democrat is now my political depot. For the next week or two, I will probably make political posts on both, but after that don't expect…

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Audit: Planned Parenthood Overbilled 15 

Item: Audit: Planned Parenthood overbilled Medicaid: Review also faults clinic’s drug distribution practices/John Stucke, SRMore Info: Planned Parenthood of the Inland Northwest required unnecessary office visits by its poorest patients, a practice that led to excessive payments from the taxpayer-financed Medicaid program, according to a…

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Roxy: Remember Great American 

At Remember The Roxy, OrangeTV provides a photo of the Great American Restaurant that later became -- if my memory is correct -- Woody McEvers' former Ruster's Roost building @ H95 and Hayden. You can see other vintage photos of the area here.

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Summer Deadly For Teen Drivers 

Item: AAA says summer is the deadliest time for teen drivers/KHQMore Info: More than 5000 teenagers are killed in car crashes every year, and AAA says this time of year is especially deadly. Monday, four Washington teenagers died and a fifth was critically injured in…

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Butte Wants Young Teens Off Streets 

Item: Butte considers curfew changes to keep young teens off the streets/MissoulianMore Info: Efforts are afoot in Butte-Silver Bow to simplify the curfew laws here to combat vandalism, keep young teens off the streets - and make it easier for law enforcement to bust violators.…

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HBO's Inland Northwest -- 8.12.09

Nick Arthun of North Wind Construction makes his way up a hill during construction at East Mission Flats in Cataldo on Tuesday. The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality purchased land in East Mission Flats over the past three years for a repository that will hold…

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Teen Survives Tubbs Hill Ax Attack 

An afternoon of hanging out on Tubbs Hill in Coeur d'Alene turned into a nightmare for one Spokane Valley teen when he was attacked a man wielding a hatchet. Keelan Babinski, 17, of Spokane Valley headed out to Tubbs Hill to go cliff diving and…

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ORG XMIT: NAT105 Glenn Donnellan, of the National Symphony Orchestra, performs The Star Spangled Banner on a violin made from a Louisville Slugger baseball bat before a baseball game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Washington Nationals, Saturday, Aug., 8, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez) (Luis Alvarez / The Spokesman-Review)

High Noon: Violin? Or Fiddle? 13 

Glenn Donnellan, of the National Symphony Orchestra, performs The Star Spangled Banner on a violin made from a Louisville Slugger baseball bat before a baseball game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Washington Nationals Saturday in Washington. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)Question: Do you prefer violin…

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AM Scanner Traffic -- 8.12.09 

11:57 a.m. R/P reports that a motorist drove away from Super 1/Kathleen w/o strapping his small child into a restraint.11:53 a.m. Injured animal reported @ Lincoln Way & Harrison.10:33 a.m. An "extremely high" man with long hair and black jeans is walking bare-chested along Conkling…

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DW: Sandler Good In 'Funny People' 

Guys who are so successful at comedy typically have a hard time transitioning to anything even slightly more serious. Which is why I was hesitant about seeing “Funny People.” First of all, “Funny People” stars Adam Sandler, who is always a questionable asset to a…

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CH: Shared Plots Unite Communities 

Imagine three vacant lots languishing untended for many years. Picture 100-year-old oak trees towering forlornly among the weeds. Some might see these overgrown lots in Coeur d’Alene and envision homes or maybe an apartment building. Not Kim Normand. Her vision was rows of carrots, tomatoes…

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Glenn Frey and Don Henley of the Eagles belt out "New Kid in Town" for the crowd at the Spokane Arena Sunday evening.  Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review (The Spokesman-Review)

The Beat Goes On Thru Generations 

In this June 2002 SR file photo by Dan Pelle, Glenn Frey and Don Henley of the Eagles belt out "New Kid in Town" for the crowd at the Spokane Arena Sunday evening. A new poll by the Pew Research Center examining the generation gap…

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DH: Why Numbers Don't Make Sense 

Now it is always fashionable to jump and shout and gripe about ignorant politicians, but this time some of them have really earned the label. And continue to do so every day. We’ve all seen them yammering on and on. Recounting, like so many trained…

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Sexist: Homophobically Fabulous CdA 20 

The men about town in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho want to be fabulous. You can tell from their bare chests, draped in button-downs unbuttoned past their pecs. You can tell from the wingspans of their long-sleeved crew-necks, illustrated with flowers and encrusted with rhinestones. You can…

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CdA To Raise Taxes 2 Percent 

Item: Cd'A seeks 2 percent property tax hike: City hopes to raise $300K as part of lower budget/Tom Hasslinger, PressMore Info: The city of Coeur d'Alene wants to increase its property tax revenue by 2 percent, even though this year's budget will be lower than…

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AM Headlines -- 8.12.09 

Tuesday, the Timberlake Fire Protection District was dispatched to a grass fire at 1724 E Shoshone Avenue in Athol. The property owners were burning household trash in a burn barrel, an ember escaped and ignited the field on fire. Story here.Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SRUmbrella weather…

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HBO Poll: Joseph Duncan 

When a psychiatrist visited Joseph Edward Duncan III at the jail in Indio, Calif., on Sunday, he asked if Duncan thought he was mentally competent to stand trial. Duncan paused, smiled and answered, “According to your definition, I’m probably incompetent,” Dr. James Merikangas testified during…

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HXD: Both Sides Misinform, Spin 80 

HappyXDopey: These are some indications to me that the Dems aren't open to a dialogue any more than the Reps are …Calling the various protests “astroturf”, calling the protesters “un-american”, the SEIU sending out emails encourging members to show up and “drown out” the protesters,…

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Escapee: Still Love Woodstock Music 

Escapee: I loved all of that Woodstock-era music and still do. I never needed drugs to enhance my listening experience. I don't think I would've ever have been a true hippie (I've got too many hangups, man), but the music and the message is still…

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