Idaho News 09-Jul

Bearish Murdoch sees another year of stock trouble

The Associated Press - SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) � Rupert Murdoch expects the capital markets to lurch through the next 12 months as Wall Street banks sift through mountains of bad ...

Wildland fire being battled at Idaho National Laboratory Update

KPVI-TV - Pocatello,ID,USA Following is an update on the wildland fire reported at the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory's desert site. ...

Idaho Power customers set record for energy use

KPAX-TV - Missoula,MT,USA AP - July 9, 2008 1:04 PM ET TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) - Idaho Power says customers have set a record for energy use, surpassing the previous high reached less ...

N. Idaho woman cited for disciplining daughter

LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA AP - July 9, 2008 2:54 PM ET COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - A northern Idaho woman has received a citation for suspicion of injury to a child after witnesses ...

Wells unable to meet water needs of E. Idaho town

KPAX-TV - Missoula,MT,USA AP - July 9, 2008 1:44 PM ET AMMON, Idaho (AP) - Officials in the eastern Idaho town of Ammon say residents ignoring a city conservation order limiting when ...

Idaho Power customers set record for energy use

The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA AP TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) � Idaho Power customers have set a record for electricity use, surpassing the previous high reached less than a year ago. ...

Allegations lead to review of Idaho Tax Commission

Forbes - NY,USA By JOHN MILLER 07.09.08, 12:16 PM ET A veteran Boise accountant will review allegations by an Idaho State Tax Commission auditor that the agency's ...

Man floats on lawn chair

The Press Association - Kent Couch, 48, landed safely in a field in Idaho after using a ball bearing gun to pop some of the balloons enabling him to descend slowly. ...

Man Takes Lawn Chair For A Ride

CBS 42 - Austin,TX,USA If only Da Vinci could have been in Idaho this weekend. Idaho landowners certainly were surprised when they saw that a flying lawn chair had landed on their ...

Up up and away, in a lawn chair

WWMT - Kalamazoo,MI,USA His dream was to make it from Oregon all the way to Idaho. Of course he didn't have any controls, so landing turned out to be a little tricky, ...

Boise News 09-Jul

Seattle linebacker commits to play at Boise State

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA BY BRIAN MURPHY - bmurphy@idahostatesman.com Seattle high school linebacker Allen Mooney said he is "110 percent sure" about his oral commitment to Boise ...

Construction hasn't started on for-profit facility in Boise

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA By Colleen LaMay - clamay@idahostatesman.com A for-profit Boise hospital to compete with the Valley's biggest players is moving full steam ahead, ...

FedEx pilot dies in single engine plane crash

WREC - Memphis,TN,USA Severts of Boise, Idaho, died Saturday when his small Cessna plane crashed in a field south of Rossville, Tennessee. Severts recently returned from serving ...

Pilot killed in crash of plane was FedEx flier

Forbes - NY,USA Severts, a co-pilot aboard a FedEx (nyse: FDX - news - people ) cargo plane, worked out of Memphis with his primary residence in Boise, Idaho.

Pilot in Saturday plane crash identified

commercialappeal.com (subscription) - Memphis,TN,USA ... Memphis Commercial Appeal Investigators have identified the pilot in Saturday's fatal plane crash as Ward Severts, a 48-year-old man from Boise, Idaho. ...

Seattle linebacker chooses Boise State

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Linebacker Allen Mooney from O'Dea High in Seattle orally committed to Boise State on Monday afternoon, he told the Idaho Statesman on Tuesday. ...

Two Bocce ball courts going in at Boise park

KTVB - Boise,ID,USA BOISE -- The Boise Parks and Recreation Department is working on a new addition to the parks system. They are building two bocce ball courts in Municipal ...

Possible Link Between Rape in Grangeville and Rape in Boise

KBOI - Boise,ID,USA Police in northcentral Idaho are investigating a possible link between a rape and beating Saturday of an elderly woman and a similar attack in Boise in ...

Police in Boise, Grangeville ponder link to rapes

The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA In a March 22 incident, a woman in Boise spent five days in the hospital after being raped and beaten in her home. Lynn Hightower, a Boise Police ...

New overlook opens at Shoreline park in Boise

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Boise Parks and Recreation crews have finished the renovation of a picnic area that overlooks the Boise River near Ann Morrison Park. ...

Idaho News 08-Jul

Idaho sex offender accused of violating parole

LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA AP - July 8, 2008 4:14 PM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A former Boy Scout counselor who admitted molesting several boys has been arrested, just a few weeks after ...

TEXT-Fitch release on Idaho Power Co

Reuters India - Mumbai,India July 8 - Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'A-' rating to Idaho Power Company's (IPC) anticipated $120 million issuance of senior secured medium-term notes ...

E. Idaho county behind on property appraisals

The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA AP � Published July 08, 2008 Officials in eastern Idaho's Madison County have signed an agreement with the Idaho State Tax Commission as part of a plan to ...

N. Idaho inmates could staff recycling center

Seattle Times - United States Kootenai County Commissioners, after visiting recycling centers in Seattle and Portland, Ore., are talking about building a regional operation that might ...

N. Idaho inmates could staff recycling center

LocalNews8.com - Idaho Falls,ID,USA AP - July 8, 2008 12:54 PM ET COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) - Kootenai County Commissioners are talking with a Washington state recycling company about building ...

US Silver Announces Management Changes and Stock Option Grants

FOXBusiness - USA Dale was hired by US Silver-Idaho, Inc., US Silver's subsidiary, in 2007 as a rehabilitation shaft specialist who consulted on the repair of the Galena Mine ...

Community Calendar - Idaho Statesman

IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA Idaho Diamond Bandit Youth Softball Clinic: For ages 8-14 from 10 am to 3 pm July 19 at Heritage Middle School, Meridian. ...

Tennis star Andre Agassi�s resort project in Idaho double faults

International Herald Tribune - France ... star Andre Agassi was proudly promoting his involvement in the Fairmont Tamarack, a luxury hotel and residence development in the mountains of Idaho. ...

Flying in lawn chair is relaxing, til balloons pop

San Diego Union Tribune - United States When Couch saw Farewell Bend on the Snake River coming up he knew he would soon be in Idaho, so started looking for a place to land. ...