HBO’s PM Headlines — 1/29/09

Special Olympic athlete James Neeson, from Maghera, Ireland, holds the miner’s lamp that carried the Flame of Hope into Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, during the arrival ceremony this morning. The Special Olympics Flame of Hope, lit almost three months ago in Athens, Greece, where it began a 37,000 mile voyage across five continents, is scheduled to arrive in Coeur d’Alene to begin the final leg of its journey to the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games. Story here .  (AP Photo/Coeur d’Alene Press, Jerome A. Pollos)

• Medal memories shine for former Special Olympian /Bonner County Bee
• Trial ordered in deadly head-on crash on I-90 /Bonner County Bee
• Cultures unite as torch crosses Silver Valley /Shoshone News-Press
• Cougars defense ranks No. 1 in the country (pdf) /Moscow-Pullman Daily News
• Vandals, Broncos ready for rival game in Moscow (pdf) /Moscow-Pullman Daily News
• Kellogg High students raise $2300 for needy families /Shoshone News-Press
• Idaho enviros get dismal budget news /New West Boise