NOT REAL NEWS: What didn't happen

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue recent headlines. None of these stories is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out.

Boo-hoo: Not another tattoo

Self-mutilation used to be a symptom of a mental disorder. But over the last 10 years or so it has been mainstreamed in the form of tattoos. They seem to be plastered all over most of the under-30 set.

AFTER THE FIREWORKS

Here's where economy stands at mid-year

The July 4 holiday offered a preview of normalcy after a 17-month hiatus interruptus with changing rules and infection ebbs and flows.

PREP ROUNDUP: Lakeside runs wild, beats Lewis County

Lakeside runs past Lewis County in nonleague football

Electoral College in spotlight — again

Time to do away with Electoral College.

The stay-at-home dad The honesty of a preschooler

The honesty of a preschooler

Vargas, Fister expected to be part of M's rotation

Seattle hopes duo can shore up rotation after Felix

PEORIA, Ariz. - For a couple of guys who've never enjoyed much job security, the start of the 2011 season is a bit different for both Jason Vargas and Doug Fister.

Campus gun bill shot down

Legislation allowing weapons at colleges dies on 6-3 vote

BOISE - Even in a gun-loving state like Idaho, there are still places where firearms should be off limits.

Obama to send 1,200 troops to border

WASHINGTON - Under pressure to take action, President Barack Obama on Tuesday ordered 1,200 National Guard troops to boost security along the U.S.-Mexico border, pre-empting Republican efforts to force a congressional vote to send the troops.

Spring is turkey time in North Idaho

Hunt from April 15 to May 25 is a promising time to bag a bird

SANDPOINT - John Zornick hunted tom turkeys in North Idaho when they were elusive birds whose gobble drifted ghostlike through the spring fog. He hunted the birds successfully in the 1980s, he said, but it required a lot of work. "In 1985, they were hard to find and hard to hunt," Zornick said. "If you had a permit, you had to work at it."

Lessons lost

Idaho teachers leaving profession in bigger numbers

BOISE - Idaho teachers are leaving the profession in bigger numbers, with more than 1,800 making their exit last year, but at the same time, more individuals are getting certified to become educators, the state Department of Education said Friday.

'GMA' poised to end 'Today' rating streak

A new morning talk show leader

Yankees rally in the Nix of time, take 2 of 3 from M's

SEATTLE - Whether it was Hisashi Iwakuma or Josh Kinney, Seattle's pitchers kept successfully working themselves out of jams most of the day.

World/Nation

• Doctor who returned to New York has Ebola

Campus gun law headed for full Senate vote

Campus gun legislation clears Senate committee

COEUR d'ALENE - State lawmakers moved closer Wednesday to making it legal to carry guns on Idaho's college and university campuses.

Duchow, T-Wolves find a way

Lake City scores in final minute, rallies past Post Falls

POST FALLS — Despite winning just one of its first six games in nonleague play, Lake City stepped up and showed it can find a way to win when it mattered most Friday in a 5A Inland Empire League opener at Post Falls.

US mulls putting North Korea on terrorism sponsor list

Making the most of summer's vegetable glut with a Cobb salad

At the end of the summer, we all are awash in corn, zucchini and tomatoes. This is, by and large, a good thing. But it begs for a bit of creativity in the kitchen so the end-of-summer vegetables don't mount up and threaten to overtake us.

Trends of confusing information

How accurate and truthful is the information being fed to us about health and wellness trends? For the last two years, I have been working on completion of an extensive certification program to become a health coach. The process was a deep dive into human physiology, kinesiology, nutrition, chronic inflammation and many other health related topics.

They'll go down in history

By DEVIN WEEKS