PM Headlines — 1.14.10

Moscow Minidoka e-mailed this poster from the University of Idaho, announcing the bash planned for the University of Idaho football team for its win over Bowling Green in the Humanitarian Bowl. Gov. Butch Otter will be one of the guests. E-mails MM: ” Otter’s timing is pretty lousy, considering his proposed budget cuts directed at higher education and Idaho Public TV.”

• Man who ran over WSU students found incompetent to stand trial /Rob Kauder, KXLY
• Coeur d’Alene Tribe plans veterans memorial plaza /Coeur d’Alene Indian Tribe
• Hayden man gets 8 years for probation violation /Prosecutor’s Office
• Spokane man whacks toothless burglar with a stick /Spokesman-Review
• Ex-state senator Atwell Perry ‘critical’ after crash /KTVB
• Idaho gets $14M to fight pine bark beetles /Becky Kramer, SR
• Sandpoint High teen struck jaywalking /Keith Kinnaird, Bonner County Bee
• North Idaho schools to hold spelling bees /Stacy Hudson, Press Room
• Ex-Post Falls youth volunteer faces new rape charges /Meghann Cuniff, Sirens & Gavels
• ITD braces for ‘Stimulus II’/ Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise
• Bill would ease leave donations among state workers /Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise

Question: If you were in charge of the UI football team celebration Friday, would you disinvite Gov. Otter as a protest to his proposed college and public television budget cuts?