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 .