Noon Headlines — 4.6.12

Sisters, Kristie DeLong, left, Renee Beals, center, visited hair stylist, Corina Bishop at Cartel, Inc, to both have ten inches of hair trimmed and donated to Locks of Love in Spokane Valley. Beals’ daughter, Brandi Beals, died from a brain tumor in November of 2010 and the hair was donated in her memory.

• Snow, hail creating driving hazard through 2 p.m. /SR
• Editorial: Regulatory rigamarole /Coeur d’Alene Press
• Real Life comes to Coeur d’Alene /Bill Buley, CdA Press
• UIdaho faculty backs domestic partner benefit plan /KTVB
• Southeast Idaho deputy dies from boating accident injuries /AP
• Rescuers pluck man from turbulent Spokane River /Mike Prager, SR
• Enviros angry but no laws broken by smiling wolf trapper /Anusha Roy, KXLY
• Orbusmax Special: Occupy Portland protesters go topless to advertise Hanford protest here