HBO’s PM Headlines — 1/8/09

Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter addresses a group of reporters today in Boise, Idaho. Otter, speaking at the annual AP Legislative preview, addressed topics from transportation to rising unemployment rates. Betsy Russell/Eye On Boise story here . (AP Photo/Matt Cilley)

* Best of Spokesman.com PM blogs /Andrew Zahler

Eye On Boise: Dover Bridge ; Jockeying for leadership ; and Pickens pledge

* Seattle PI to be sold or shut down /King 5

* Idaho’s Simpson to lead GOP on enviro spending panel /AP

* Polygamist leaders arrested near Idaho-Canada border /KTVB

* Leaky roof closes Sandpoint chamber office /Bonner County Bee

* Major ice jams threaten Calder /KREM2

* North Idaho seeing worst of weather /Jody Lawrence-Turner

* Judge: Abused girl was treated like POW /KREM2

* Common Interest asks for higher wine, beer tax /AP

* Weather forces Lake Pend Oreille schools to close for 4th time /Bonner County Bee

* Calder residents get precautionary flood warning /Shoshone News-Press

* Fernwood sewer system overwhelmed by stormwater /KHQ