Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest — 10/7/08

Dan Pelle/SR
WSU men’s basketball players are hitting the hot tubs as part of new aquatics program to show benefits of water training. Kasee Hildenbrand is the research coordinator for the $1 million National Aquatics and Sports Medicine Institute. Story here .

* Agency to offer vaccines to kids exposed to 100 rabies /Missoulian
* FBI file details Knievel’s dark side /AP
* South Hill Rapist can be photographed on witness stand /AP
* Meridian seeks donated tree for holidays /Idaho Statesman
* Washington sets registration record /AP
* Court settles dispute between Lewiston-Clarkston eye doctors /Lewiston Tribune
* Wyoming man ‘critical’ after Tasering /Billings Gazette
* Montana Demos file to block GOP voter challenges /Helena Independent-Record
* Montana pays for livestock losses due to wolves /Daily Inter Lake

Orbusmax Special: No jail for Washington blogger who said he’d shoot up mall here .