Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest — 9/9/08

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With only his head sticking out of the sand, Samuel Murray, 6, looks out while his brother Jacob, 10, works on building a breakwater for the raising tide on the beach near Winchester Bay, Ore., on Sunday. The brothers were spending the day on the beach with their family from Reedsport, Ore.

* Montana toddler’s body may have been in trunk for months /Billings Gazette
* Tacoma paper offers buyouts to 189 of 350 full-time employees /KCBI
* DashCam video shows last moments of deadly Bonner County chase /KXLY
* Charges possible in peanut butter attack /KREM2
* Jerome pastor gets probation for sex battery /Twin Falls Times-News
* Boise cop admits to DUI, will serve jail time /Idaho Statesman
* LaRocco’s campaign manager takes UI job /Lewiston Tribune
* Palin’s high profile lifts Down Syndrome awareness /KCBI
* Acting Nez Perce County sheriff becomes real thing /Lewiston Tribune
* $3M remodel of Idaho governor’s place on hold /KHQ
* Boater attempts world record on Whitefish Lake /Daily Inter Lake
* Paul on Montana ballot as Constitution nominee /Missoulian

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