HERE
Homeless people camped under the freeway will get 24-hour warnings. (Inlander blogs)
A Hayden couple was found dead in apparent murder-suicide. (Spokesman)
Traffic was closed off on the North Spokane Corridor for eight hours overnight as a suicidal young man threatened to jump from the Wandermere Bridge. (KXLY)
NEAR
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo pleads guilty to DUI charges (and apologizes) at brief court appearance in Virginia. His license will pay a $250 fine and have his driver's license revoked for a year. (Idaho Statesman)
Gray whale reportedly loose in Puget Sound, and possibly hungry for squid. (Tacoma News Tribune)
Patrick Dempsey aka "McDreamy" from Grey's Anatomy bought Seattle-based Tully's Coffee for $9.15 million. (Seattle Times)
OUT THERE
House passes $9.7 billion Hurricane Sandy relief bill; it now heads to the Senate. (WaPo)
Three New York City police officers were shot in two separate incidents within an hour of each other Thursday night. None of them were in critical condition. One gunman was killed, and the other arrested. (NYT)
Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education, was released from a hospital in England today after a three-month recovery. (AP)
