AM Headlines — 4.20.12

LC’s performance of “Zombie Prom” is the story of teens Toffee and Jonny. After declaring their love, Toffee is banned from seeing Jonny. Jonny’s devastated and commits suicide by throwing himself into the nearby nuclear plant. Love doesn’t die — and neither does Jonny. He returns from the dead to go to his prom and graduate high school. Hijinks ensue for a fun-filled show. Story here. (SR photo: Colin Mulvany)

• Idaho Records /Sherry Adkins, SR
• Weather change to warm things up /Mike Prager, SR
• Ryan Leaf to be arraigned in Great Falls on May 3 /AP
• Steer-killing grizzly caught on Blackfeet Reservation /AP
• State jobless rate drops below 8 percent /Coeur d’Alene Press
• Ex-teacher admits filming high school girls showering /Daily News
• Kalispell area priest pleads innocent to child porn /Daily Inter Lake
• North Idaho task force catches fugitive Dresser /Coeur d’Alene Press
• Registration numbers down for Spokane Komen race /John Stucke, SR
• Orbusmax Special: Montana guv: Latinos won’t vote for Romney because his fam has polygamous roots in Mexico here

Question: I simply don’t get the zombie craze. Dracula/vampires and werewolves are the A Team of monsters who go bump in the night. Zombies? meh. Can anyone explain this fad to me?