Fourteen stolen bikes worth $120K are found
POSTED: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 12:53 PM PTBY: The Associated Press
Tags: Exergy Tour
Boise’s mayor said May 23 that police recovered all 14 racing bicycles stolen by thieves who raided the trailer of a professional cycling team that is trying to get its top rider to the London Olympics. Mayor Dave Bieter said the bicycles appear to be in good shape. A police department spokesman says the bicycles [...]
AP, news groups sue Idaho over execution access
POSTED: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 08:24 AM PTBY: The Associated Press
The Associated Press and 16 other organizations sued the state of Idaho May 22 to force officials to let witnesses watch executions from start to finish, arguing that the media has a First Amendment right to view all steps of a lethal injection execution. The group asked a U.S. District Court judge to require the [...]
U.S. sales of previously occupied homes rose in April
POSTED: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 11:40 AM PTBY: The Associated Press
Americans bought more previously owned homes in April, a hopeful sign that the weak housing market is gradually improving. The National Association of Realtors said May 22 that home sales rose 3.4 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.62 million. Home sales have rebounded after falling in March and are near [...]
State could strengthen role in Idaho National lab
POSTED: Monday, May 21, 2012 at 04:25 PM PTBY: The Associated Press
The head of Idaho National Laboratory is reaching out to top Idaho leaders in an effort to strengthen the relationship between Idaho and the sprawling research facility in the eastern Idaho desert. INL Director John Grossenbacher said he’s even approached Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter about the state taking an unprecedented ownership stake in the complex, [...]
Idaho, 21 other states join campaign finance fight
POSTED: Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 12:59 PM PTBY: The Associated Press
Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending. The states led by New York are asking the high court to preserve Montana’s state-level regulations on corporate political expenditures, [...]
N. Idaho officials balk at herbicides to battle milfoil near public beaches
POSTED: Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 12:41 PM PTBY: The Associated Press
City officials in Sandpoint in northern Idaho are declining an offer from the Idaho Department of Agriculture to apply herbicide in Lake Pend Oreille near city beaches to eradicate Eurasian milfoil. The Bonner County Daily Bee reports that city council members decided that, even though the plan wouldn’t cost the city, putting herbicides in the [...]
Cleanup money flowing into Silver Valley
POSTED: Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 04:27 PM PTBY: The Associated Press
Money from a $460 million trust fund intended to clean up mining pollution is starting to flow into Idaho’s Silver Valley. About $8.5 million will be spent this year from the Asarco trust, which was created as part of the company’s 2009 bankruptcy settlement to pay for heavy metals pollution in the valley. Meanwhile, efforts [...]
Idaho prison lawsuit agreement could cost $1.6 million
POSTED: Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 01:05 PM PTBY: The Associated Press
Lawmakers will have to approve more than $1.6 million in staffing increases and other costs for the Idaho Department of Correction under an agreement designed to bring a decades-old lawsuit over conditions at a Boise-area prison to an end. Idaho State Correctional Institution inmates and state officials signed the agreement Tuesday. It requires more nurses [...]
Idaho to boost prison medical staff
POSTED: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 10:23 PM PTBY: The Associated Press
Tags: corizon, Idaho Department of Correction
The Idaho Department of Correction has agreed to increase staffing and dramatically increase medical care oversight as part of a long-running lawsuit over conditions at a prison south of Boise. The agreement filed with the U.S. District Court in Idaho May 14 guarantees that the court will continue to review conditions at the Idaho State [...]
Appeals panel rules company must pay tribes for waste storage at closed plant in eastern Idaho
POSTED: Sunday, May 13, 2012 at 03:56 PM PTBY: The Associated Press
An Idaho Court of Appeals Panel has ruled that Philadelphia-based FMC Corp. must pay the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes $1.5 million annually for waste storage at its closed phosphorus production plant in eastern Idaho. The panel on May 11 affirmed a lower court decision ruling the tribes have jurisdiction over the FMC property and said FMC must [...]
