In a photo taken last Tuesday, a spider waits patiently on its dew-covered web in the Willow Creek Preserve in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/The Register-Guard, Kevin Clark)

• Cartoon: Federal debt/David Horsey, Seattle P-I
• Fewer Westerners believe in global warming/New West
• UI students recover from frat house falls/AP
• UI study: Huge increase in Hispanics benefits region/Eye On Boise
• Statesman circulation drops, but readership rises/Statesman
• Boise State drops in latest BCS poll, behind TCU/KTVB
• Southern Montana reaches wolf harvest quota/Billings Gazette
• Montana legislator pleads innocent in boat-crash case/Daily Inter Lake
• Soldier from Libby killed in helicopter crash/Missoulian
• Montana goes retro w/new license plate design/Missoulian
• Orbusmax Special: Pilots who overshot runway are from Pacific Northwest here