Noon Headlines — 7.16.12

Mike Gregg, right, a biologist with U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s Land Management Research Demonstration Program, looks into a nesting chamber on Sunday after finding a juvenile burrowing owl in Umatilla, Ore. USFW is working with the Burrowing Owl Society of British Columbia to send up to 24 burrowing owls from the Umatilla Army Depot to British Columbia, where burrowing owls are endangered, for captive breeding. Video story here. (AP Photo/The Tri-City Herald, Kai-Huei Yau)

• Idaho Records /Sherry Adkins, SR
• North Idaho farmers deal with flooding /AP
• Several drown in INW during heat spell /AP & SR
• ITD wants wrongful death Sandpoint lawsuit dismissed /AP
• Editorial: Crapo’s hard turn to the right /Idaho Press Tribune
• Idaho settles w/fired female transportation chief /Betsy Russell, SR
• Montanan parachutes from hang glider to avoid crash /Associated Press
• Idaho recovers $1.7M in drug settlement /Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise
• Man in Darth Vader mask robs Butte convenience store /John Grant Emeigh, Standard
• Labrador: Idaho should chop more trees to pay for schools, roads /Chris Stein, Inlander
• Sweet, whisky-ish cinnamon liquer is conquering Spokane /Luke Baumgarten, Inlander
• Orbusmax Special: Mosquitoes in Idaho test positive for West Nile virus here