Huckleberries Best Of INW — 1/29/09

Special Olympic athletes Arnold Morgado, left, from Twin Falls,Idaho, and Ben Rigby, from Pocatello, Idaho, hold the miner’s lamp this morning that carried the Flame of Hope into Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and the torch so it can be carried across Idfho. 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)

• Special Olympics may make last-minute cuts /KTVB
• 2 more Idahoans sickened by peanut butter-linked salmonella /Idaho Statesman
• Montana winter overtakes Oklahoma couple, she dies, he barely lives /Missoulian
• Spokane man to complete quest to climb every (state’s) mountain /Times
• Orbusmax Special: Seattle 3rd best place to live, Portland No. 8 here .

• Dead cattle litter Boise area ranch /Idaho Press-Tribune
• Idaho gets D-minus on teacher quality /AP
• Colville soldier dies in helicopter crash /SR, AP
• 5-time all-star Sweeney signs with M’s /PI
• Idaho teachers could get pay cut under Luna’s proposal /Idaho Statesman
• Lake City, Coeur d’Alene lead boys, girls cage rankings /Idaho Press-Tribune