Huckleberries Best of the Northwest — 7/18/05
Rescuer Amber Deahn of Denny's restaurant hugs Steve Groene after Dylan Groene's memorial service on Saturday./Jed Conklin, SR.
John Adams and Lynn Nelson of the Kootenai County Prosecutor's Office have the thankless job of representing convicted child molester Joseph Edward Duncan III, who's accused of the Groene murders/kidnappings, here.
Related: Bloggers are playing a role in uncovering info in Groene murders here, 800 attend Dylan Groene's memorial service here, and Bikers rally around 8-year-old survivor Shasta Groene here.
1. Eric Devericks/Seattle Times looks at media buzzards swirling around ailing Justice William Rehnquist here.
2. In Sandpoint, Idaho, the police are busting kids trying to make a few bucks with their sidewalk lemonade stands. No permit. No sales. D.F. Oliveria/Spokesman-Review tells you all about it in his Monday Huckleberries here.
3. A Washington high school has seized and shredded a literary magazine, Imprints, which had attracted parental ire because it once contained a 13-line poem about a teenager's first sexual experience and had a profane word in the title here.
4. Lab results have concluded that a north Spokane woman who initially tested positive for West Nile virus does not have the mosquito-borne illness, the Spokane Regional Health District announced this morning, here.
5. Descendants of a fur trader who burned an Indian village and kidnapped the son of a chief more than 200 years ago in British Columbia have apologized for their forefather's actions here.
6. IMHO-NW: D.F. Oliveria/Spokesman-Review (WSU prez muzzles free speech), Rebecca Nappi/Spokesman-Review (Mixed feelings about mail voting), Dan Popkey/Idaho Statesman (Howard Dean's visit to Idaho), Joel Connelly/PI (Joe Wilson vindicated, but bruised), and Art Thiel/PI (Portland has new sheriff in town).
Coeur d'Alene Press poll: "Should there be harsher punishment for child molesters than other criminals?" Of 812 respondents, 92.6% said yes here.
*Ex-Seahawk Koren Robinson gets day in jail for DUI guilty plea here.
*State of Idaho insurance fund gives run-around to cop severely wounded in the line of duty, according to Marc Stewart/CDA Press, here.
*Seattle picks former Sonic Bob Weiss as next coach here.
*Grizzly bear population has stabilize enough to consider dropping the bear from the Endangered Species list here.
Orbusmax provides the rest of the Northwest here.
