Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest — 3/14/07

Lance Mackey, of Fairbanks, Alaska, runs his dog team up the finish chute of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome, Alaska Tuesday to become the first musher to win both the Iditarod and the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race in the same year. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)

Eye On Boise: Prez wannabe Mitt Romney heckled by anti-Mormon spectator during Boise visit here .

1. 2007 Mariner commercials: The Seattle Mariners have posted their batch of funny commercials for the 2007 season on their Web site. (Check out the one entitled “Serious Heat,” starring Felix Hernandez first. Funny.) Click here .

2. The unicorn wasn’t driving. In a case of crossed e-mails and misinterpreted attorney slang, Yellowstone County Attorney Dennis Paxinos said this morning that widespread reports of a Billings drunken-driving defendant who told police that a unicorn was driving when his truck crashed into a light pole are inaccurate here .

3. A Corvallis (Mont.) High School alumnus who was cited for confronting boys’ basketball coach Jon Kedrowski after a season-ending loss has been banned from attending games at the school for a year. The Corvallis school board approved the ban against Will Fehr, 28, last week. The one-year ban was the maximum allowed under school policy here .

4. Red’s Trading Post of Twin Falls, one of Idaho’s oldest gun shops, can trade no longer. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has revoked the business’s license to buy, trade or obtain guns after an ATF audit found Red’s employees sold guns improperly numerous times between 1999 and 2004 here .

5. After a decades-long absence, vintage yellow tour buses return to Yellowstone National Park this summer. Eight buses, built in the 1930s and refurbished over the past year, will provide tours for Yellowstone visitors starting June 4 here .

6. IMHO-NW: Tom Henderson /Lewiston Tribune ( Captain America deserved better ), Dan Hammes /St. Maries Record-Gazette ( Discounting senior discount ), Idaho Statesman ( Bikinigate = poor use of ISP budget ), Helena Independent-Record ( Getting a say on Iraq war ), and Chuck Pezeshki /Moscow-Pullman Daily News ( Learning from life among chimps ).

Online Poll: 74% of 873 respondents to an Idaho Statesman poll say the Idaho Senate did the right thing in voting to ban smoking in bowling alleys.

*Drug/alcohol arrest dims future for Seahawks’ Jerramy Stevens here .

*Washington woman wins $1.8M during first time playing lottery here .

*Off-duty Boise cop involved in accident looking for dog here .

*A Jewish philanthropy group has financed a full-time rabbi for Bozeman, Mont., here .

Orbusmax Special: Oregon push to ban junk food from schools encountering resistance from parents, vendors, kids here .