AM Headlines — 8.29.14

Incoming sixth-graders listen to orientation speaker Stu Cabe in the gym at Canfield Middle School Thurday in Coeur d’Alene. Sixth-graders participated in ice-breaker activities, then took tours and found their locker assignments. (SR photo: Jesse Tinsley)

• Utility work to prompt water shutoff /Press
• Vestal: Tests don’t measure school quality /SR
• Shoulder work on H41 to begin Tuesday /Press
• Cigarette sparked Silverwood bathroom fire /KREM 2
• Lakeland teachers reject contract /Brian Walker, Press
• Details offered on Valley dog’s police-shooting death /SR
• Blanchette: Cougs bid disappointing farewell to Seattle /SR
• Temperatures to dip into 70s for Labor Day weekend /Press
• Upswing in DUI arrests since legalization of marijuana /KXLY 4
• Priest Lake cabin auction 2-fer: Auction wraps up, 59 of 60 cabin sites sold /Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise; and Priest Lake cabin sites auctioned /David Cole, Coeur d’Alene Press