Rookie national team member  Sadie Bjornsen of Winthrop, Wash., teamed with Alaskan Kikkan Randall to make history for U.S. Women cross-country ski racing by finishing second in the sprint relay at the World Cup finals yesterday in Dusseldorf, Germany.  Story here. (Posted by Rich Landers/SR)

• 2 NIC soccer players face charges in violent break-in/KREM2
• Gonzaga slips from No. 18 to No. 22 after Illinois loss/KREM
• Moscow prof, Manhattan Project scientist dies at 93/KOZE-AM
• Moore not among 5 finalists for Heisman Trophy/Chadd Cripe, Statesman
• WSU student charge in Sunday Pullman stabbing/Jason Ford, KOZE-AM
• Red-haired suspect caught on tape stealing church donation box/KBOI
• Jeremy/Amber Clark plead innocent in Karina Moore's death/Anusha Roy, KXLY
• Treasure Valley's KTRV12 suspends news operation, lays off workers/KTVB

Washington Fish and Wildlife Department biologists confirm the authenticity of this remote camera photo made in the Moses Coulee area near Soap Lake, Wash. Biologists the rare shot of eight cougars in one spot — on the carcass of a dead animal — is the result of a female cougar with a litter converging with the adult cats from her pervious litter. The woman who forwarded the photos to Fish and Wildlife biologists was not identified.

Doug Clark was able to find an Eastern Washington University band uniform to fit on his body after practice Thursday in Cheney.At left areformer student Holly Amend and EWU band uniform manager Amanda Goede. Clark, an EWU alum, traveled to Frisco, Texas, with the band to perform during the Eagles 20-19 victory in the national championship game with Delaware. You can read his column here. (SR photo: Dan Pelle)

• Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR
• Huckleberries: Names give storms homey feeling/D.F. Oliveria, SR
• Winter storm watch issued for Tuesday night, Wednesday/Mike Prager, SR
• Opinion: A preview of Otter's State of the State speech today/Idaho Statesman
• CdA, Post Falls school boards to consider levies tonight/Jody Lawrence-Turner, SR
• Budget crunch dominates talk about Idaho legislators/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise
• Post Falls Senior Center relocated activities after flood damage/CdA Press
• Cougar Bay dock storage on agenda tonight/Alecia Warren, CdA Press
• Spokane, North Idaho pols react to Arizona shootings/Colleen O'Brien, KXLY
• World record bull elk shot in Idaho, sort of/Randy King, Boise Weekly
• One year later: Idahoans recall ravaged Haiti/Anna Webb, Statesman

Delaware running back Andrew Pierce (30) jumps over Eastern Washington cornerback Jesse Hoffman (21) during the first half of the FCS Championship football game tonight in Frisco, Texas. After trailing 19-0 in the third quarter, EWU scored 20 straight points to win 20-19. ESPN game activity & score here (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Bo Levi Mitchell led three straight late touchdown drives, the finale coming with 2:47 left, leading Eastern Washington a 20-19 victory over Delaware and its first FCS championship. The Eagles (13-2) trailed 19-0 and had gained only 92 yards midway through the third quarter Saturday night. Facing the defense that gave up the fewest points per game in the FCS, their title hopes looked shot. But Mitchell took them on drives of 80, 89 and 69 yards. He converted a fourth-and-8 on the second of those series and needed two video replays to uphold a fourth-and-1 conversion a few plays before the winning touchdown. Delaware (12-3) — with Vice President Joe Biden, an alum, watching five rows behind the team’s bench — had one last try, but turned the ball over on downs with 47 seconds left/Steve Bergum, SR.

Reaction?

EWU fans cheer the arrival of the team at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco Texas for the National Championship game against Delaware in Frisco Texas this afternoon. Eastern Washington and Delaware will kick off at 4 o'clock today. (SR photo: Christopher Anderson)

Question: Who wins?

Eastern Washington football coach Beau Baldwin congratulates Mario Brown after his fourth-quarter TD in last week’s playoff win against Southeast Missouri State. Baldwin was only 11 years old when his father died unexpectedly of a major heart attack. Now, he’s poised to lead his No. 1-ranked Eagles against North Dakota State at Roos Field Saturday in the I-AA quarterfinals. Steve Bergum tells the remarkable story of the EWU coach here.

• What’s wrong with Gonzaga/Tom Noie, South Bend Tribune
  
• Bacteria found in Post Falls water/Brian Walker, CdA Press
• Children with lighter start CdA fire/Bill Buley, CdA Press
• 3 charged with voting illegally in 2009 city election/Tom Hasslinger, Press
  
• Post Falls man can live with being Donald Trump’s No. 2/Brian Walker, Press
• Kootenai County comprehensive plan nears end/Alecia Warren, Press
• Ethics committee to hear Hart complaint Monday/Alecia Warren, Press
• Snowy owls make annual visit to INorthwest/Rich Landers, Outdoors Blog
• Kootenai Electic, Avista warn of door-to-door scam/KHQ
• Mountain Home AFB preferred host for Saudi jets/Idaho Press-Tribune
  

Eastern Washington University football player Darriell Beaumonte is thankful for the help and support provided over the years by his foster mother, “Big Mama” Zena Sturgis. Beaumonte’s Facebook profile includes a picture of himself with Sturgis, right, and Star Sturgis. Steve Bergum’s SR story here. (SR Photo: Dan Pelle)

• Cartoon: A new nutty helmsman at Pyongyang/David Horsey, Seattle P-I
  
• Labrador launches first ad, Minnick calls it misleading/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise
• 2nd Vandal arrested for allegedly driving drunk/Josh Wright, SportsLink
• Post Falls baby-sitter to face murder charge in court today/KREM
  
• Wolves off-limits to hunters this season (with video)/Tania Dall, KXLY
• Steve Crump: He cheated the hangman, sort of/Twin Falls Times-News
  
• 38 marijuana plants found in WSU footballers’ home/Associated Press
• WAC notebook: Petersen, Akey coy about voting details/Brian Murphy, Statesman
• ConocoPhillips seeks expedited wide-loads ruling/Lewiston Tribune
• Orbusmax Special: Alaska couple convert pickup into oversized red Flyer wagon here
  

• Tuesday Poll: Readers in Hucks Nation overwhelmingly consider the blue football turf of Boise State and the new red turf of Eastern Washington to be “awful.” 102 of 158 respondents (64.6%) said that both fields were awful. Of the other options available, 31 of 158 (19.6%) picked BSU’s field as attractive. 14 of 158 (8.9%) think the new EWU field is attractive. Only 5 of 132 (3.2%) consider both fields attractive. 6 respondents were undecided.
• Lewiston Tribune Poll: 372 of 569 respondents (65%) supported Judge John Bradbury’s decision to send ConocoPhillips mega-load permits back to Idaho Transportation Department.
  
• Today’s Poll: Now that the combat phase in Iraq is over, do you support the growing U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan?
  

The Eastern Washington University football program has been put on three years probation and is banned from postseason due to what the NCAA calls “major violations.” The NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions released the report on Wednesday. The violations include impermissible participation by ineligible student-athletes in practice activities, the use of too many countable coaches, failure to monitor by former head coach Paul Wulff, now the head coach at Washington State, and a lack of institutional control and failure to monitor by the university/SR. More here.

Question: Does this color your view of second-year Washington State coach Paul Wulff?