Tiffany Noreuil, an animal care technician at the Oregon Humane Society, holds temporarily lost "Hercules" on Jan. 10 in Portland, Ore. Not only is Hercules, a 20-pound stray whose girth got him stuck in a pet door while trying to plunder some dog food, back with his owner, but now he's scheduled to appear on Martha Stewart's mag here/AP Photo.

Leaning Straight Up: Global warming hearing canceled due to ice storm here.

1. The Quote That Ticked Off Brit Media: "Yeah, he is a hero and it's a damn good thing we have heroes like him in the United States to do the fighting we've got to do to against terrorists around the world and you guys better get on board and that whole country of yours along with the rest of Europe, you're going to go merrily sucking your thumb like you did in World War II" -- Boisean Eldon Anderson defending neighbor who was involved in friendly fire attack that claimed a British soldier in 2003 here.

2. Pullman Police officers early on Sunday used Tasers for the first time while on patrol. Officers Tasered and arrested 23-year-old Miles Hubbard and 22-year-old Jaron Williams when they allegedly obstructed police officers in separate incidents on College Hill here. However, an eyewitness wonders if one of the men was Tasered simply because he was black here.

3. Eye On Boise: The House State Affairs Committee has voted 11-7 (today) in favor of HB 94, the bill sponsored by county clerks to allow counties the option of going to an all-mail election, after a debate stretching for nearly two hours and lots of testimony both for and against. Debate here.

4. Rescuers found a Boise teen-ager dead east of Idaho City and another man injured after a third person walked out of the snow-covered area in search of help here.

5. The Spokane Police Department today released nine additional pages of a 15-page investigation dealing with reported sightings last summer of the Deputy Mayor Jack Lynch's car in High Bridge Park – an area known for criminal activity here. Confidential report (6 pages) here, supplementary info (9 pages) here, and KXLY video here.

6. IMHO-NW: Steve Kelley/Seattle Times (Pitchers and catchers report), David Horsey/Seattle PI ('Toon: Who Said This?), Missoulian (Inappropriate to clear House gallery), Frank Mieli/Kalispell Daily Inter Lake (Bordering on insanity), and Tri-City Herald (Give kids chance, place to call home).

Online Poll: 66% of 573 respondents to an Idaho Statesman poll say 4-year-olds should be allowed to enroll in voluntary pre-school classes.

*Nine of the 10 top U.S. states for prisoner growth from the West, Idaho third here.

*Oregon celebrates birthday No. 148 here.

*A radio-collared Canada lynx has been found shot to death in NW Montana here.

*Montana Repub wants apology from superintendent who called state's schools "second-class" here.

Orbusmax Special: $1M lawsuit filed by Spokane man against citizen's review commissioner who called him an "ass" here.

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