INW Headlines — 4.18.11

After getting her hair, nails and makeup done and picking out a party dress, Miranda Merchant, 18, poses for some glamour photos Saturday at the Hutton Settlement in Spokane Valley. Girls at the settlement were treated to the Just Girls event. Chelsea Bannach SR story here . (SR photo: Dan Pelle)

• Cartoon: Our dysfunctional Congress /David Horsey, Seattle P-I
• Idaho colleges seek up to 8.4% in tuition hikes /Associated Press
• Moscow firm pulls century-old logs from Flathead Lake /Jim Mann, DIL
• Montana State Billings to build 911 memorial /Mary Pickett, Gazette
• Montana considers authorizing charter schools /Mike Dennison, HIR bureau
• Gov. Schweitzer’s 21 vetoes may be Montana record /Daniel Person, Chronicle
• Spokane’s Ambassadors Group to pay $7.5M to settle fraud suit /Tom Sowa, SR
• Orbusmax Special: Average price of gasoline $3.92 in Washington state here