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• Respiratory virus strikes Treasure Valley children hard (NorthWest Cable News)

  BOISE -- Under siege by RSV, a local doctor says a respiratory virus affecting both young and old has hit the Treasure Valley hard. The numbers are startling.  We're told at Saint Luke's in Boise three out of four kids hospitalized have RSV.   And with mortality rates similar to the flu, doctors want to see this current spike start to fall. This is a virus that all of us can get.  For adults it ...

• Thief uses dead toddler's ID for tax write-off (seattlepi.com)

  A Blaine couple is outraged after finding out their daughter is being claimed as a tax write-off by a total stranger. Adding insult to injury - the baby is dead.

• Dems look to health vote without abortion foes (Seattle Times)

  House Democratic leaders Thursday abandoned a long struggle to strike a compromise on abortion in their ranks, gambling that they can secure the support for President Barack Obama's sweeping health care legislation with showdown votes looming as early as next week.

• Stranger steals I.D. of grieving couple's dead baby (KOMO Seattle)

  A local couple is outraged after finding out their daughter is being claimed as a tax write-off by a total stranger. Adding insult to injury - the baby is dead. And now the government won't tell the couple anything about the person who did it.

• Quinn seeks income tax hike for schools (Seattle Times)

  Calling himself a realist, Gov. Pat Quinn on Wednesday scaled back his proposal to raise income taxes, shifting to a call for an increase of just one percentage point to be used solely for preventing deep cuts to education.