HBO’s Best Of The INW — 3/23/09

In this picture provided by Martha Guidoni via The Montana Standard, a fire burns inside the Holy Cross Cemetery after a small, singe-engine plane crashed in an area just south of the Bert Mooney Airport in Butte, Mont. on Sunday. Seventeen people, including several children, were killed in the incident, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Montana Standard story here . (AP Photo/The Montana Standard, Martha Guidoni)

• Cartoon: When bikini waxing is outlawed …/ David Horsey, Seattle P-I
• Idaho House declares state sovereignty on 51-17 vote /Eye On Boise
• Rocker Carole King key to more Idaho wilderness?/ Rocky Barker, Statesman
• Montana now deputy chief of staff for Obama /Missoulian
• Fiery tanker crash closes 195 until 4 p.m. /SR

• 6YO sister saves boy’s life after near hanging /KTVB
• Montana patrol car in fatal head-on collision /AP
• NW Montana school district eyes radical changes /Daily Inter Lake
• Older relatives pressure some kids to join violent gangs /Idaho Press-Tribune