Best Of The INorthwest — 6.30.10

A Mineral County Search and Rescue crew maneuvers on the lower Flathead River on Tuesday afternoon, in Dizon, Mont. At least four boats fitted with sonar equipment searched the river between the town of Dixon and the river’s confluence with the Clark Fork River, searching for a missing small plane. The Daily Inter Lake provides profiles of the missing reporters, Coeur d’Alene native Brian Williams, and the pilot here . (AP Photo/Daily Inter Lake, Nate Chute)

• Racist fliers posted along Coeur d’Alene’s Highway 95 /Alison Boggs, SR
• Legendary LCSC baseball coach Cheff to retire /Keith Osso, ESPN NW
• Vestal: New platform leave hole in Idaho GOP platform center /Spokesman-Review
• Bellevue, Idaho, mayor facing DUI charge resigns /Associated Press
• Pope Benedict XVI OKs Spokane bishop’s resignation /KXLY
• Idahoans among most willing to help out /Anna Webb, Statesman
• Foreclosures make up big part of sales in nation, Idaho /Sandra Forester, Statesman
• Federal agents kill 2 Wyoming wolf packs for killing livestock /Billings Gazette
• Idaho GOP platform represents even harder shift to right /Ben Botkin, Times-News
• Orbusmax Special: Gore accuser going public in National Enquirer here