INW Headlines — 12.8.11

“He’s acting shy,” said Fran Snavely about Templin, a lab mix during the Kootenai Humane Society pet portraits with Santa fund raiser at the Kootenai Humane Society Thrift Store today. Fran is a volunteer and Templin is available for adoption. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)

• Cartoon: The dysfunctional Euro family /David Horsey, PI
• WAC welcomes Boise State back /Dave Southorn, IPT
• Famous Potato Bowl announces big spud donation /KTVB
• Washougal shooter may have had supremacist ties /SR
• Work begins to tape huge mineral deposits in Idaho /New West
• Helena gets tentative OK to kill 220 urban deer /Independent-Record
• BCS, Sugar Bowl owe Boise State, Moore an apology /Chris Dufresne, L.A. Times
• Skinny of supposed ‘skinny jeans’ ban at BYU-Idaho /Sarah Gambel, Deseret News
• Idaho soldier Bergdahl tried to escape from Taliban captors /Ben Botkin, TF Times-News
• Job growth, rail projects cap busy year for BNSF in Montana /Lynnette Hintz, Daily Inter Lake
• National Geographic feats cougar/jaguar work of Bozeman scientist /Gail Schontzler, Chronicle
• Orbusmax Special: Doctors unable to reattach man’s guillotine-severed arm here