PM Headlines — 2.17.10

Claude Irwin, a fugitive disbarred lawyer caught in Mexico after more than a decade, made a video first appeareance in court earlier today. Meghann Cuniff’s Sirens & Gavels report here . (Colin Mulvany/SR)

• Idaho lawmakers kill controversial adoption bill /Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise
• CdA tribal police investigate overnight stabbing /KREM2
• It’s Wallace Stegner’s West, we just live in it /Jenny Shank, New West
• Blanchette: Intrigue surrounds what should be a slam dunk /SR
• Canyon County deputy charged w/stalking /Idaho Statesman
• Caldwell cat shot in head w/arrow finds way home /Anna Webb, Statesman
• Stimulus funds sought for milfoil control /Keith Kinnaird, Bonner County Bee
• Program to help 93 laid-off Welco workers /Gwen Albers, Hagadone News Network
• Spokane prosecutor says firing ‘a management decision’/ Thomas Clouse, SR