Best Of The INorthwest — 6.16.10

Connor Plumb, left, 3, reaches for a horse skull held by Dona Abderhalden, right, while his brother, Gavin, 5, looks on during a class at the Palouse Discovery Science Center on Tuesday in Pullman. (AP Photo/Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Dean Hare)

• 2nd suspect in North Idaho murder-for-hire case caught /Spokesman-Review
• Police: East Valley student lit girl’s hair on fire /Spokesman-Review
• 2-fer: Boise soldier, 4 others accused of murdering Afghan civilians /KTVB; Billings soldier also charged /Billings Gazette
• Survival instructor at Fairchild AFB found innocent of rape /KREM
• CdA charter leads 6 Idaho schools in best of USA /Bethann Stewart, Statesman
• Opening of Glacier Park’s Going-to-the-Sun Road uncertain /Jim Mann, Inter Lake
• Land Board OKs mine lease despite ‘high-risk’ finances /Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise
• Pac-10 invites Utah to become 12th member /KBOI
• Agency investigates grizzly shooting in Butte’s Elk Park /Montana Standard
• Orbusmax Special: Auditor: Jaywalking stops often lead to ‘take downs’ here .