Local diploma mills

Our lead story for tomorrow: Foreign nationals, including potential terrorists, could legally gain entry into the United States with fraudulent degrees purchased from Spokane-based diploma mills, docments made public today reveal.

Also locally:

—Under a city of Spokane tentative parking ticket amnesty plan, motorists could clear up 2-year-old or older parking tickets for just 30 cents on the dollar.

—Smoke from burning grass from North Idaho could add to the region’s smoky haze this week. Farmers appear to be poised to burn fields on the Rathdrum Prairie. Under Idaho’s new secrecy laws, however, public health advocates say they are unable to warn residents most at risk.

—A story about baseball fields that was listed earlier today is NOT running tomorrow.

And from the wire services:

—Iraqi leaders failed to meet a key deadline to finish a new constitution.

—On the first day of Israel’s Gaza pullout, soldiers handed out eviction notices to sobbing Jewish settlers.

—Women who take daily amounts of painkillers such as Tylenol are more likely to develop high blood pressure.