AM Headlines — 8/6/08

Shawn Gust/Coeur d’Alene Press
Fran Hughes, owner of Hughes Farm, a 100-acre farm of primarily hay and grain on the Rathdrum prairie in Post Falls, Idaho, checks on his cattle Tuesday in a pasture that is adjacent to the proposed 290-acre Foxtail housing development site, seen in the background. Hughes, who has been farming here for more than 30 years, shares over a mile of property lines with the proposed site. See story below.

* Idaho Records /Sherry Adkins, SR
* Rival Riley Creek buys Priest River mill /Carley Dryden & Becky Kramer, SR; and: Priest River’s future looks bleak with mill closure /Alecia Warren, Bonner County Bee
* Train derailment strands Amtrak passengers /Brad Fuqua, Hagadone News Network
* 3rd time’s the charm for 283-acre Foxtail annexation /Brian Walker, Coeur d’Alene Press
* Commissioners OK $145M jail bond, sales tax election /Sara Leaming, SR
* Cougars have nowhere to go but up /John Blanchette, SR
* CDA parking generates big bucks /Ryan Shelton, Coeur d’Alene Press