HBO’s Inland Northwest — 8.24.09

Ian Lavin, 9, of Eagle, Idaho, throws a decoy into a pool out in front of Dekes, a 2-year-old Labrador Retriever, at the Splash Dogs dock at the Western Idaho Fair, Sunday in Boise, Idaho. (AP Photo/Idaho Press-Tribune, Charlie Litchfield)

• Cartoon: Who will cut health care costs?/ David Horsey, Seattle P-I
• Minnick to appear on ‘News Hour with Jim Lehrer’ tonight /Statesman
• Montana trooper drowns in irrigation ditch /AP
• Montana neurologist dies in Glacier Park hiking accident /Missoulian
• Role of gas prices unclear in 2008 fatality decline /Twin Falls Times-News
• 3 decades, 5 judges, and 3000 water claims to decide /Twin Falls Times-News
• Coeur d’Alene man charged in Spokane River fatality to appear in court /KHQ
• 2nd campus attack reported in week at WSU /KREM