PM Headlines — 2.19.14

Instructor Kiley Nelson looks at vendor exhibits at the North Idaho College Workforce Training Center in Post Falls during the 6 ^th annual Safety Fest of the Great Northwest today. Safety Fest offers a chance for companies in construction and general industry to receive free safety training for their employees from the area’s best safety instructors. Anyone is invited to attend with about 400 people attending the event this year. Thursday is the last day classes are being offered such as Workplace Violence – Dealing with Hostile Individuals, OSHA General Industry, OSHA Construction, and Respiratory Protection, among others. Call the NIC Workforce Training Center at (208) 769-3333 to register or check class availability.  (NIC Press Room photo: Tom Greene)

• Legislature wants March adjournment /EOB
• WSU prof found dead in Pullman pond /AP, SR
• Legal pot to add $190M to Washington coffers /AP
• Fugitive of the Week: Nicholas James Keller /Press
• Eisemann’s ‘temper tantrum’ gets attention /Statesman
• Rathdrum annexation draws concern /Brian Walker, Press
• Wife of Spokane County fireman saves kids from fire /KHQ
• Controversial Idaho freedom bills are dead /Betsy Russell, SR
• Family has renewed hope for Sgt Bowe Bergdahl’s release /AP
• All sides reach concensus on new justice reinvestment bill /EOB
• Rathdrum pastor who painted Mandela becomes US citizen /David Cole, Press