PM Headlines — 12.18.12

“It’s her fault, she bought it for me,” said Wayne Parsons, right, as he joked with his daughter Angela Parsons about his car port that blew down at his home in Coeur d’Alene on Monday. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)

• Washington recycling rate his nearly 51% /KXLY
• Remains of body found north of Sandpoint /Bonner County Bee
• WSU’s Tuel gives up appeal, will not return /Christian Caple, SR
• Man tackles robber after he fires gun inside Spokane story /KHQ
• Reward offered for missing Coeur d’Alene sexual offender /KREM
• Spokane Valley firefighters rescue horse from pool /Othello Richards, KREM