Headlines @ Closin’ Time — 8/13/08

Ward Hooper/AP
In this artist’s rendering, Joseph Edward Duncan III listens to opening statements in the sentencing phase of his death penalty case in U.S. District Court in Boise on Wednesday. A jury that will decide whether Duncan, a convicted pedophile should be executed listened Wednesday as a prosecutor graphically described how the man killed members of an Idaho family, abducted two children and abused the youngsters at a campsite before murdering one of them.

* Sali opens campaign office outside district /SR
* Idahoan gets life for killing ex-girlfriend w/hammer /KTVB
* N-plant developers file zoning papers /KHQ
* 3 fires in 3 days squelched at Pine Creek /Shoshone News-Press
* Bonner milfoil program gaining strength /Bonner County Daily Bee
* Mauled man’s caretaker had drug, assault convictions /Seattle Times