INW Headlines — 5.17.11

Five-year-old Dawson Bressie jokes around during breakfast at The Learning Garden Developmental Preschool in Post Falls recently. The owner of the centre has advocated for the past ten years for stronger day-care licensing laws in Idaho. Alison Boggs SR story here. Betsy Russell SR story here. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)

• Cartoon: Republican vision of Medicare’s future /David Horsey, Seattle P-I
• Spokane man killed helping another crash victim on I-5 /Mike Prager, SR
• Doug Clark: Still waiting for spring to spring /Spokesman-Review
• Prosecutor: Ehrlick put rocks in boy’s pants, dumped him in canal /KTVB
• Track/field standout to miss state meet after accidental shooting /Statesman
• Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, 74, dies of cancer /Dave Campbell, AP
• Squirrel hunt leads to felony assault charge /Greg Tuttle, Billings Gazette
• Montana horse owners asked to look for signs of equine herpes /AP
• Testimony opens in Missoula’s try to stop megaloads /Kim Briggeman, Missoulian
• Bear that attacked to Gallatin hikers won’t be killed, relocated /Associated Press
• Orbusmax Special: Seattle doesn’t like public displays of affection here