Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest — 12/3/08

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University of Montana football fans Mark Hettick, Brian Horner,front row right, Rob Reimann, left, Lance Hughes, wearing cowboy hat, and Patrick Mourar, right, pose in Missoula, Mont., with boxes of Twinkies that they will toss out to the crowd every time the Grizzlies score a touchdown. “We prepare every week for a lot of points,” says Brian Horner.

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* Washington, Idaho get F’s for college affordability /Moscow-Pullman Daily News
* A tax on gassy cows? That stinks, group says /Billings Gazette
* Dance kick at Twin Falls club prompts felony charge /Twin Falls Times-News
* Hecla to pay $102K after 2006 spill /AP
* Otter to propose higher gas taxes, license fees /Idaho Statesman
* Idaho jobless rises again /Idaho Statesman
* Body found in Moses Lake pipe bomb home /SR
* Car burglars steal candy, leave behind other valuables /AP
* Moscow police chief: New jail proposal will wait /AP
* Montana’s Schweitzer heads nation’s governors /Helena Independent-Record
* Cat lost in Yellowstone survives, goes home /Billings Gazette

Orbusmax Special: U.S. Supreme Court lifts stay of Washington execution here .