Boise News 13-Jun

Former Boise Cascade worker accused of stealing $185K

KTVB - Boise,ID,USA BOISE -- A former Boise Cascade employee has been indicted for 86 counts of wire fraud and nine counts of aggravated identity theft. ...

Memorial Stadium Diamond Club won't be ready for Boise Hawks ...

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA The newest addition to Memorial Stadium will not be completed for the Boise Hawks season opener. The 76 seats in the team's new Diamond Club section will ...

Former Boise Cascade employee charged with wire fraud, identity theft

KBCI CBS 2 - Boise,ID,USA By KBCI Staff BOISE - A former Boise Cascade employee has been indicted for 86 counts of wire fraud and nine counts of aggravated identity theft. ...

Boise Hawks assigned four first-round picks

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA The Chicago Cubs assigned 10 players from recent Hawks teams and four first-round picks to open the season in Boise on Tuesday. Third baseman Josh Vitters, ...

Boise Man Missing for a Week

KBOI - Boise,ID,USA Ada County Sheriff's detectives are looking for your help in finding a Boise man who's been missing for a week. 49 year old Curtis Williams spoke to family ...

Travel rules different for Boise

Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA Boise State had just been to a BCS game the previous year and could give UH some pointers on how to handle the venture -- including with whom to fill its ...

You can expect prime floating weather this weekend, but the Boise ...

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA The warm weather through the weekend is perfect for floating the Boise River, but officials say do it in a raft or kayak to avoid the cold, leg-numbing ...

Boise loses fast-pitch softball legend, Marvin Abrams

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Abrams, who died Tuesday at 84, was a Boise softball legend. "You can't use that word too much," Riggs said. "There's never been anyone else like him. ...

Barber Park opens for the rafting & floating season

KTVB - Boise,ID,USA BOISE -- If at first you don't succeed... try again. Today is the day those hoping to raft the Boise River can get out in the current. ...

Local racing spotlight: Boise's Gordon Boven

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Gordon Boven of Boise has owned his 1972 Barracuda since he was 12 years old. He has been drag racing at Firebird Raceway since he was 15. ...

Se Idaho News 13-Jun

NEW: Downtown Cedar Rapids eerily quiet

Gazette Online - Solon,IA,USA He�s no stranger to swift, heavy water, having led whitewater rafting expeditions for 45 years on rivers in the Grand Canyon, Idaho and other sites. ...

Idaho News 13-Jun

Idaho party conventions get under way

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Butch Otter leads an all-GOP slate of seven constitutional officers, and all four members of Idaho's congressional delegation are Republican. ...

Idaho's No. 6 for quake risk, are we prepared?

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA BY CYNTHIA SEWELL - cmsewell@idahostatesman.com A 6.0-magnitude earthquake in February near Wells, Nev., shook buildings across southern Idaho and served as ...

Jon Anderson: Burley ethanol plant shows Idaho's potential for ...

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA BY JON ANDERSON - Idaho Statesman The city of Burley is proud to be providing all Idahoans a home-grown, renewable alternative to imported oil. ...

Idaho summit at BSU to address Hispanic student scores

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA AP The Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs will host a statewide summit next month aimed at closing the gap between Hispanic students and their ...

Norm Semanko's statement on his campaign to be Idaho GOP chairman

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Sandpoint, Idaho � June 12, 2008 � "As I and the other Convention delegates arrive in Sandpoint today, I can feel the extra energy and excitement among ...

Woman injured in one-car rollover on Idaho 16

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA One person was transported to St. Luke's Meridian Medical Center after a one-car rollover near Pollard Lane on Idaho 16, said an Ada County dispatcher. ...

State Summaries: IDAHO

RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA By Gillerman, VS Bennett, EH Mining and exploration activity in Idaho in 2007 continued its upswing as a result of favorable markets and higher commodity ...

News Minute: Here is the latest Idaho news from The Associated Press

LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA AP - June 13, 2008 4:44 AM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs will host a statewide summit next month aimed at improving Latino ...

Idaho receives federal charter school grant

Fort Mills Times - Fort Mill,SC,USA BOISE, Idaho � Idaho is one of five states the US Department of Education will give hefty grants to develop more charter schools. The Idaho Department of ...

True Romance: Idaho fishing guide nets his lady love

Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA In September 2006, Cassie flew to Idaho to take clients fly-fishing. And that's when she met fishing guide Pete Wood. Pete knew almost immediately that ...

Boise News 13-Jun

Boise Police officer arrested for DUI plans to fight charges

KBCI CBS 2 - Boise,ID,USA By Blake McCoy BOISE � More details are beginning to emerge about a Boise Police officer's DUI arrest back in April. It�s been learned that he will fight ...

Boise State sees summer enrollment grow

KTVB - Boise,ID,USA BOISE - It may be summertime, but more students than ever before are taking classes at Boise State University this year. The school has more than 6159 ...

Carpenters strike at INL after firing by Boise companies

KTVB - Boise,ID,USA AP IDAHO FALLS - About 60 union carpenters walked off the job at the Idaho Cleanup Project at the Idaho National Laboratory. Wednesday's strike came after a ...

Boise gets top marks in Brooking Institution's economic vitality ...

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Tim and Marsha Hysell are the owners of Arbors, Gates, and Gardens, located on Hill Road in Boise. It's open during spring, summer, and fall seasons. ...

Boise golfer Howland gets major opportunity

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Janell Howland of Boise will make her major championship debut in the US Women's Open, which is June 26-29 at Interlachen Country Club in Edina, Minn. ...

Cold weather keeps floaters away from Boise River on Wednesday

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Scott Hall, center, and Earle Swope, members of the Boise Fire Department Dive Rescue, patrol along the Boise River on Wednesday morning. ...

Boise police officer to challenge misdemeanor DUI citation

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Veteran Boise Police Officer Gary C. Miller will go to court to challenge a misdemeanor DUI citation he received in late April. The Ada County Prosecutor's ...

Boise police officer fights DUI charge

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA BY KATY MOELLER - kmoeller@idahostatesman.com Ten-year Boise police officer Gary C. Miller will go to court to challenge a misdemeanor DUI citation he ...

Boise Valley Fly Fishermen offer free casting clinic

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Boise Valley Fly Fishermen will hold a casting clinic on Saturday, June 14 from 9 am to 11 am at ParkCenter Pond off ParkCenter Boulevard in East Boise. ...

Snow in the Boise Mountains won�t last long as warm weather moves in

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA The worst of the cold weather passed through the Treasure Valley overnight, but evidence of the storm can be seen on the Boise Mountains. ...

Se Idaho News 13-Jun

SE Idaho authorities misplace recorded confession

Southern Idaho Business - Twin Falls,ID,USA BLACKFOOT, Idaho - Authorities in southeastern Idaho are uncertain what became of an apparent recorded confession by an eastern Idaho woman who shot and ...

New license rules hope to cut down on teen crashes

KTVB - Boise,ID,USA But with the help of parents and a new Idaho law, some of those distractions can be eliminated. Brenna VanPaepeghem is taking lessons to get her license ...

NEW BUSINESSES

Providence Journal - Providence,RI,USA IMPACT DIRECTORIES OF RHODE ISLAND, LLC: Mgr.: Reed Hansen, 1251 N, Cole Rd., Boise, Idaho 83704. A: Peter Regan, 130 Bellevue Ave., Unit 2, Newport 02840. ...

Idaho News 13-Jun

Popkey: What Idaho GOP risks by spilling its blood in an ...

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Every four years, Idaho Republicans count on presidential elections to boost their already dominant numbers in the Legislature by an average of 5 percent. ...

Boise State's Grinnell, Idaho's Williams advance at NCAA track meet

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Boise State's Ryan Grinnell and Idaho's Elvie Williams advanced to the long jump finals at the NCAA Track and Field Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, ...

Idaho gas line plan rankles Utah pipeline foes

Salt Lake Tribune - United States Cache County Council members are concerned that two pipeline projects are proposed in Cache Valley because the valley's north end extends into Idaho. ...

Idaho Falls District 91 Wants to Change Attendance Policy

LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA A big portion of the school's budget comes from the Idaho Department of Education. If District #91 had a one percent increase in attendance, they would rake ...

Snow Blankets Parts of Eastern Idaho

LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA The snow came early in Idaho Falls and most of it melted as people were heading to work. Idaho Falls dipped to 33 degrees breaking a 1999 record of 34 ...

Toronto Raptors selected as parent club for D-League's Idaho Stampede

The Canadian Press - BOISE, Idaho BOISE, Idaho � The Toronto Raptors and the Portland Trail Blazers will be the parent club teams for the NBA Development League's defending-champion Idaho ...

Agencies authorize expansion of Idaho phosphate mine

Seattle Times - United States By REBECCA BOONE AP Writer The Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service have approved a more than 1400-acre expansion of a southeastern Idaho ...

Idaho to close chinook season on Clearwater River section

LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA AP - June 11, 2008 9:04 PM ET LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) - Anglers in northern Idaho have until the end of the week to catch spring chinook on a main section of ...

University of Idaho lease up for renewal

The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA AP � Published June 11, 2008 City officials in northern Idaho will consider approval of a $1.3 million renewed lease with the University of Idaho next week. ...

University of Idaho lease up for renewal

KPAX-TV - Missoula,MT,USA AP - June 11, 2008 8:14 PM ET COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - City officials in northern Idaho will consider approval of a $1.3 million renewed lease with the ...