HBO’s Inland Northwest — 10.2.09

Shirley O’Brien of Tucson, Arizona walks her dog Benson along Centennial Trail in Coeur d’Alene on Wednesday. She owns a condo at Riverstone and lives both in Tucson and Coeur d’Alene. (Kathy Plonka/SR)

• Secession leader now in deep debt in Montana /Seattle P-I
• Roselle details years of radical enviro in ‘Tree Spiker’/ New West
• Montana woman fined for letting 12YO drive /Billings Gazette
• Cat killer goes back to Corrections boot camp /Helena Independent-Record
• Tempted by bird feeder, sow, 2 cubs spend day in Bozeman tree /Bozeman Chronicle
• Former director of UI research center Maki to retire /AP
• Boise mayor Bieter to shave head today /KTVB
• Bomb scare turns out to be act of goodwill /Twin Falls Times-News
• College of Idaho welcomes new president /Idaho Press Tribune
• Montana Tea Party to host John Birch president /Helena Independent-Record
• Orbusmax Special : UO’s Blount could return by Stanford game Nov. 7 here .