PM Headlines — 12.9.14

Idaho real estate attorney Peter Smith, left, and his wife, nurse Anna J. Smith, pose for a photo outside the federal appeals court building Monday in downtown Seattle. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Monday in Anna Smith’s case challenging the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records; Peter Smith argued the case on her behalf. (AP Photo/Gene Johnson)

• Ex-Shock coach faces battery charges /KHQ
• Zags not taking Cougs lightly /Jim Meehan, SR
• 27YO Plummer man guilty of strangulation /Press
• CIA paid Spokane torture teachers > $80M /KHQ 6
• Crowd turns out for open government workshop /EOBoise
• STD outbreak in eastern Washington county /Nina Culver, SR
• Unemployment insurance tax rate to fall in 2015 /Eye on Boise
• Accidental alarm shuts down Sandpoint Middle School /Daily Bee