AM: Butte Native Covers Combat

Holly Pickett, a Butte native and former Spokesman-Review photographer, has been covering events throughout the Middle East, including the revolution in Tunis, Tunisia. SR columnist Shawn Vestal writes about his amazing former colleague today here. You can see how dangerous her assignments were by this news today that two top-notch photojournalist have been killed in Libya here . (Photo: Niels Hougaard)

• Idaho Records /Sherry Adkins, SR
• Tuesday Scanner Traffic /DFO, Hucks Online
• Region to get break in showers today /Mike Prager, SR
• Bore holes allow for fresh holes in Lucky Friday mine /Becky Kramer, SR
• Idaho ranks 5th in household cellphone use /Spokesman-Review
• Farmers frustrated with winter weather this spring /KXLY
• WSU student hospitalized after alleged joy ride /Sarah Mason, Daily News
• Meeting today deals w/Lookout Pass ski expansion /Rich Landers, Outdoors
• Sandpoint Monday hikers on the go for 20 years /Rich Landers, Outdoors
• ‘Rush Week’ targets Panhandle’s newest aquatic invader /Rich Landers, Outdoors
• Drug trafficker, money launderer sentenced to 15 years /David Cole, Press