HBO’s AM Headlines — 10/29/08

Jesse Tinsley/SR
Eric Weatherman of Kettle Falls, Wash., climbs on his tugboat on Lake Roosevelt last Thursday. He now weighs 300 lbs., down 130 lbs from his highest weight of 430. He had a “duodenal switch”, a type of bariatric surgery that prevents the body from absorbing nutrients from food. He can now climb ladders without running out of breath. John Stucke’s SRtory here .

* Idaho Records /Sherry Adkins
* North Idaho woman dies of flu /Alison Boggs, SR
* Diploma mill webmaster gets 4 years for fraud, porn /Bill Morlin, SR
* NIC basketball lands 2 7-footers /Rod Harwood, CDA Press
* Student puts swastikas into WSU newspaper /SR (scroll down)
* Boundary County couple to start ‘Paying It Forward’ Web site /R.J. Cohn, RuralNorthwest.com
* Boy Scout saves mother w/Heimlich Maneuver /Alecia Warren, CDA Press
* No agreement yet between tribe, state re: highway /Dan Hammes, St. Maries Gazette-Record
* WSU sees red over campus violence /KXLY
* Dual-language students outscore English-only ones /AP