AM Headlines — 8.1.17

Chris Garratt, chair of the Visit Walla Walla campaign, pitches the first onion at the Walla Walla Sweets baseball game at Borleske Stadium in Walla Walla. Rather than throw out the first pitch, honorees for the Walla Walla Sweets baseball team throw out the first onion. You can read all about it here. (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)

• Sagle fireman loses home to fire /KHQ
• Lacking new cops, CPD motors on /Press
• Researchers: Potheads don’t stress much /SR
• Kootenai County OKs tweak in officer pay /Press
• UBEReats launches Spokane delivery service/ SR
• Lightning strike in Swiss Alps kills UI professor /AP
• Woman becomes 1st to swim Flathead Lake & back /AP
• Giving to panhandlers may do more harm than good /KXLY
• Sheriff’s new-car request runs headlong into backlog /Press