Jerome A. Pollos/Coeur d'Alene Press, AP
Megan Wolley, 10, plays with her "big sister" Emily Schneider during a lunch Thursday for members of the Big Brothers Big Sisters school-based mentoring program at Skyway Elementary in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. In its first year at the school, 11 students were matched with mentors who visited one hour per week to play, do arts and crafts or eat lunch.

*Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR
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*Post Falls man charged w/sex crimes/SR
*Big precincts could vote absentee: Voting areas can't be split until 2010 census/Coeur d'Alene Press
*CHS cuts ties with Stangel: Vikings opt not to renew baseball coach's contract/Coeur d'Alene Press

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