Huckleberries Best of Idaho Online — 9/27/07

Jason Hunt/Coeur d’Alene Press, AP Photo

Army 1st Sgt. Scott Dale receives a hug from his daughter, Jenna, 10, during a welcoming ceremony for the Company B, 321st Engineer Battalion (Combat) at the Army Reserve Center in Hayden Wednesday. See Item No. 2.

1. Austin Askens, a 19-year-old Central Valley High School graduate is back home in Liberty Lake from Boise, but memories of the day a stranger shot him and two other Northwest Lineman College students outside a party still haunt his dreams, and he faces multiple surgeries to fix damage to his tongue and teeth here .

2. A few hundred family, friends and well-wishers welcomed about 32 members of a U.S. Army Reserve unit back home from Iraq on Wednesday at a boisterous ceremony in Hayden here .

3. Online Poll: 76% of 843 respondents to an Idaho Statesman poll say they disagree with U.S. Sen. Larry Craig’s decision to stay in the Senate for now here .

4. News Roundup: Craig’s not quitting, yet / Spokesman-Review ; “Dead” Moscow man struggles to get life back / Spokesman-Review ; Otter: Craig successor should keep staff in place / Idaho Statesman ; BSU player discusses baby named for him / KTVB ; and Meridian teen admits to raping female classmate / KTVB .

5. Blogosphere: Bleeping men / A Family Runs Through It ; Cold dead hands or cold dead culture / Free In Idaho ; Holier than thou / Fort Boise ; Calls made difference on health care vote / Red State Rebels ; And don’t let the door hit you … / Adam’s Blog .

6. IMHO-Idaho: Larry Craig Airport Commode Quiz / Doug Clark (Spokesman-Review); Divorce got you done? Take your gun to court / Tom Henderson (Lewiston Tribune); “I will continue …” / Randy Stapilus (Ridenbaugh Press); Send illegal aliens home now / Robert B. Murray II (Idaho Statesman); and How does Favre look in blue / Brian Murphy (Idaho Statesman).