AM Roundup — 1.18.12

Lester Vann Waters, 47, enters a Williams County courtroom Tuesday for a preliminary extradition hearing in Williston, N.D. He and 22-year-old Michael Keith Spell are charged in Montana with aggravated kidnapping, a felony charge that carries the death penalty in that state, in connection with the Jan. 7 disappearance of teacher Sherry Arnold of Sidney. Story here. (AP Photo/Williston Herald, Daniel Woods)

• Idaho Records /Sherry Adkins, SR
• Street officials anticipate late-arriving snow storms /Mike Prager, SR
• Alaska Air announces cancellation of 38 flights /Carol Pucci, Times
• Oops: Romney hunted moose, not elk, in Montana /Associated Press
• 2010 Parma High grad dies in Afghan combat /Idaho Press-Tribune
• Prez says UMontana has problems w/sex assaults /Michael Moore, Lee
• Lawmakers want Occupy Boise encampment gone /Betsy Russell, SR
• Shawn Vestal: Political parties like spending, in one way or another /SR
• Deputies remove Occupy Missoula tents, arrest protester /Rob Chaney, Missoulian
• Orbusmax Special: Staff: Montana state campaign ethics commissioner is unethical here