Best of the Northwest (5/17/05)

Memorial Day 2004 at Coeur d’Alene Memorial Gardens. Many of the flags flying on the poles are from the families and widows of veterans who provide them for Memorial Day and Veterans Day. They once draped the caskets of veterans.

Boise State footballer Cam Hall could face three counts of vehicular manslaughter and up to 30 years in prison as a result of a road-rage accident that killed a family of three here . Meanwhile, friends and loved ones remembered the young family in a Boise memorial service yesterday here .

1. Milt Priggee toons about Washington transportation problems here .

2. The Seattle Times provides a team-by-team look at PAC-10 football this fall here .

3. Washington pre-schoolers booted from kindergarten more than double the rate of K-12 and above the national average, according to the Seattle Times, here .

4. Your computer at work is almost certainly an open book to your boss, with every keystroke you type and Web page you view easily recorded and quietly checked, with or without your permission or knowledge, computer security experts told Nan Connolly /Statesman, here .

5. The Coeur d’Alene Little League learned an expensive lesson when the city ordered them to take down $3,000 worth of banners from the Canfield Little League complex, reports Bill Buley/Coeur d’Alene Press, here .

6. IMHO NW: Bill Virgin /PI ( Information isn’t free ), John Levesque /PI ( Ichiro’s artistry ), Idaho Statesman ( Conservationist Nelle Tobias ), Ken Schram /KOMONews ( John 3:16 license plate ), and Doug Clark , SR ( Let’s re-create Mount St. Helens eruption ).

*Killing, inflicting pain on animals now a class 3 felony in Washington here .

*14 tons of illegal fireworks seized in Tacoma here .

*RuralNorthwest.com provides the Kootenai County sheriff’s warrant roundup here .