A firefighter keeps his distance as flames engulf an excavator Fifth Street in downtown Lewiston Monday after a gas line was struck. More via Eye on Boise. (Lewiston Tribune photo)

• Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR
• WSU prof pleads innocent to rape/KXLY
• Spokane police have suspect in three 1990 murders/AP
• Female detained as suspect in Eastern Hospital death/SR
• Suspect in Boise monkey killing faces 2 felony charges/EOB
• Idaho man pleads guilty to shooting at helicopter/AP
• Air Force buries radioactive waste in SW Idaho/Associated Press
• Idaho had 20 percent of nation's fires for year/Betsy Russell, EOB
• Land Board OKs land swap for McCall campus/Betsy Russell, EOB
• Opinion: Medicaid expansion right course for state/Spokesman-Review