Lewiston Tribune

MOSCOW, Idaho -- In a little more than a month and a half, the Idaho football team will emerge from the smoke on the east side of the Kibbie Dome and excitedly make its way to the north sideline.

PULLMAN, Wash. -- A U.S. flag displayed by a group of Middle Eastern people caused some hard feelings during the Fourth of July celebration in Sunnyside Park Wednesday.

CLARKSTON, Wash. -- A woman’s stolen medical marijuana plants won’t be covered under her renter’s insurance policy because no legal value for the pot can be established, according to a court decision handed down Tuesday.

PULLMAN, Wash -- The police chief in the town with the region's largest university is gearing up for Friday, when businesses will assume what had been the state's monopoly on hard liquor sales.

Pullman Police Chief Gary Jenkins' plans include decoy operations where minors are sent into stores to see if they can buy alcohol. He has also scheduled a training session on June 11 with presentations by police officers and officials from the Washington State Liquor Control Board.

CLARKSTON, Wash. --The red light on the phone next to Mica Craig's hospital bed blinked with a new call, but this time it wasn't a concerned relative or another reporter asking how a rattlesnake bit him at the Clarkston Walmart.

"I'm about to do a TV interview in five minutes," the 47-year-old Clarkston man said to the caller shortly before 2 p.m. He asked the caller to call back about 3 p.m.

After Craig hung up, he said it was a Walmart claims adjuster.

Craig said he was looking at gardening supplies in the Clarkston Walmart parking lot Friday when he grabbed what he thought was a stick lying on the ground, but was really a 1-foot to 1 1/2-foot long, solid brown rattlesnake that struck him in the hand. He eventually flung the reptile to the ground and stomped it to death.

RIGGINS, Idaho -- Idaho Fish and Game commissioners debated Thursday the extent to which they should protest a new law that establishes as many as a dozen big-game auction tags.

The law was passed in the 2012 legislative session over the objections of the commission. It gives commissioners the authority to issue as many as a dozen auction tags -- up to three each for elk, deer and antelope, and a maximum of one each for moose, mountain goat and bighorn sheep.

LEWISTON, Idaho --The owner of a pair of Lewiston smoke shops is facing multiple narcotics and racketeering charges relating to the alleged sale of the synthetic marijuana known as Spice.