INW Headlines — 8.12.10

An emu, one of the Montana Emu Ranch Company’s breeding stock, makes low drumming noises as it wanders a pen at the ranch west of Kalispell, Mont., recently. What was a necessity for the Australian Aborigines has never caught on in this country. Story here . (AP Photo/Flathead Beacon, Lido Vizzutti)

• Cartoon: Crazy lady /Milt Priggee, Seattle P-I
  
• Swastika spray-painted on Spokane Valley synagogue sign /KREM2
• Teens try to jump from car en route to driver’s ed class /Katy Moeller, Statesman
  
• Blanchette: Ex-MSU coach Kramer settles suit, but career damage done /SR
• Ex-football great Kurt Warner: Arena Football doesn’t pay /John Blanchette, SR; Also: Shock, Iron clash with trip to ArenaBowl on the line /Jim Meehan, SR
  
• Cable theft cuts service to 5000-7000 Comcast customers /Scott Maben, SR
• 1300-1500 sockeye salmon expected to return to Idaho /Roger Phillips, Statesman
• Racism on Rez: Judge backs Wyoming tribes /Rone Tempest, New West
• Authorities: Congressman’s aide sold gun to avoid charges /Matt Gouras, AP
• Derailment drops 20 tons of Montana grain near downtown Vancouver /AP
  
• Orbusmax Special: Idaho Boy Scout left behind after 700-foot tumble during hike here