PM Headlines — 6.12.12

Catholic Bishop Chuck Skoro holds a prayer book as a small group of protesters gather in opposition to the scheduled execution of Richard Leavitt outside the Idaho Maximum Security Institution on Tuesday in Kuna. Prison officials declared Leavitt, 53, dead at 10:25 a.m. today by lethal injection at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution. It was only Idaho’s second execution in 17 years. Leavitt was convicted of stabbing 31-year-old Danette Elg, of Blackfoot, in 1984. (AP Photo/Idaho Press-Tribune, Greg Kreller)

• Verizon phasing out phone plans /AP
• Boisean w/14th DUI faces life in prison /KTVB
• Thunderstorms showing up across the region /SR
• County, State offers joint vet approach /Kootenai County
• North Idaho task force names Oster fugitive of the week /Press
• Prosecutor: Newman Lake home invasion shooting justified /KXLY
• Relative of slain woman finds closure in Leavitt execution /Idaho P-T
• Idaho OKs BPA offer on Lake Pend Oreille winter plan /Keith Kinnaird, Bee
• Study: Wildfires will be more frequent in West, world /Rocky Barker, Statesman