AM Headlines — 6.6.11

Buoyed by encouragement from a nurse, Chico Corral breathes deeply into a machine to test his lungs at Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane. The former Midnite Mine employee, who has been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, believes his disease was caused by the dust he breathed in his two decades working in the uranium industry. Becky Kramer SR story here . (Special to SR: Jed Conklin)

• Warm weather to raise stream, lake levels /Mike Prager, SR
• Idaho Records /Sherry Adkins, SR
• Rock blasting brings evening closures to I-90 /Spokesman-Review
• Traffic slowed on I-90 near Spokane’s Lincoln exit /Spokesman-Review
• Idaho prison health contractor fined $382 /Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise
• Kootenai County fluoride levels OK /Tom Hasslnger, Press
• Wrong-way driver finds grace in crash aftermath /Colleen O’Brien, KXLY
• Trailer flips on side, causing delays at Lookout Pass /Spokesman-Review
• Traffic could by on Sandpoint Bypass by year’s end /Keith Kinnaird, Bee
• Sandpoint officials push for texting ban /Cameron Rasmusson, Bee
• Experimental plane crashes into Clark Fork /Keith Kinnaird, Bee