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Sportslink
By Vince Grippi
Dec. 5 – Washington free safety Nate Fellner and WSU quarterback Jeff Tuel are close. They went to the same high school, Clovis West High in Fresno, Calif., and graduated together in 2009. So when Fellner intercepted Tuel to close out UW’s victory on Saturday, he knew it would carry some weight back in Fresno.
“I’m going to have a little bragging rights when I go home,” Fellner said, “but it’s all in fun. He had a good game, but when we needed a stop, sometimes we got the stop. So it’s all good for us.”
Huckleberries Online
By David F. Oliveria
Dec. 3 – “We contacted Spokane Valley Police because I heard there might have been some similar child enticing incidents over there,” e-mails Coeur d’Alene police spokeswoman to Hucks Online. “We live in a community that has already been touched by evil once. It greatly increases a child’s safety if their parents talk to them about what to do if approached by a stranger. I watched a ‘60 Minutes’ special last month that featured a serial killer. He described to the reporter that the young female he killed initially refused to get into his car. He bragged that all he had to do was yell profanity at her in a very aggressive way and she did what she was told and got into his car. He later raped and dismembered her. She was too frightened and intimidated to do anything other than what she was told. He did not have a weapon, and he never got out of the car” – Christie Wood, Coeur d’Alene Police Department.
Outdoors blog
By Rich Landers
Dec. 2 – The 2010 Northern Pikeminnow bounty program on the Snake and Columbia Rivers paid $1.2 million to anglers who helped to reduce the numbers of a salmon-eating pest called the northern pikeminnow.
One devoted angler cashed in on the deal, earning a record $81,000 during the six-month pikeminnow season, according to the Bonneville Power Administration, which funds the program. The BPA said just over 173,000 pikeminnows were caught, helping to increase survival rates for young salmon and steelhead. Fishermen get paid $4 to $8 for northern pikeminnow 9 inches and larger caught in the lower Columbia and Snake rivers.