Kootenai Sheriff Vows Fight Over Grand Jury Charges
Kootenai County Sheriff Rocky Watson says he will not resign and will fight grand jury charges accusing him of management by fear amid accusations tied to attempts to oust three sheriff's officers. The grand jury also indicted officers John Ferguson Robert Hill and Terry Morgan for statutory rape of a 16 year old girl. Det Lt Earl Winans was charged with failure to report a felony in the same case.
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Coeur D'Alene
Idaho
UPI
Kootenai County
Rocky Watson
Watson
John Ferguson
Robert Hill
Terry Morgan
Earl Winans
Ammonia Explodes Wounding Soldier at Boise Gun Range
An Idaho Army National Guard trainee identified as Spec. 4 Donald Dwayne Bottcher, 19, of Twin Falls was injured when a rounds of unexpended ammunition exploded while placing targets at a southeast Boise range. He was taken to St. Alphonsus Hospital in stable condition. cause and investigation are pending.
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Boise
APS
Idaho Army National Guard
Donald Dwayne Bottcher
Twin Falls
St. Alphonsus Hospital
Wen
Bottcher
116Th Armored Cavalry
Infant suffocates in plastic wrap during nap in Cambridge
In Cambridge Idaho a four month old boy suffocated after wrapping his head in plastic in his crib during a morning nap. Sheriff Jim Johnston said the parents, who left the child briefly, found him nearly unresponsive 45 minutes later and rushed him to a hospital where he died on arrival. The name was withheld pending relatives’ notification.
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Cambridge, Idaho
UPI
Jim Johnston
Emmet logger killed in four-roll rollover near Atlanta Idaho
Lawrence Kroush, 25, of Emmett, died when the logging vehicle he operated skidded and rolled four times in the Swam-Holme area near Atlanta. Elmore County officials reported the incident occurred Thursday afternoon.
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Atlanta
Idaho
UPI
Emmet
Lawrence Kroush
Emmett
Elmore County
Kroush
Swam-Holme
Body of Purolator guard identified in Lake Mead
The body of 50 year old Russel Dempsey, a Purolator security guard, was found in Lake Mead near Hoover Dam after he and partner Cecil Newkirk disappeared May 24 during a 288000 armored truck holdup in Prescott Arizona. Arizona authorities have no arrests or solid leads.
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Nev
Lake Mead
Arizona
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Hoover Dam
Nevada-Arizona
Dempsey
Cecil Newkirk
Prescott
Ariz
Purolator Company
Interstate 17
Lead-Footed State Workers May Earn Tongue Lashing
State employees violating Gov. Evans energy memo by speeding face discipline from oral reprimand to dismissal under merit system rules. Leroy received an oral warning but later faced a tongue lashing for 41 mph in a 35 mph zone. Leroy’s $2250 donation followed a ticket issued to another motorist in the same area.
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Richard Charnock Boise
UPI
John V. Evans
Personnel Commission
Evans
Steve Leroy
Hammett
Richard Wills
Leroy
Craig L. Jensen
Twin Falls
Jensen
American Cancer Society
State Court Overturns Ruling on Disability Benefits
The Idaho Supreme Court reversed an Industrial Commission denial for George J. Lyons of New Meadows. It ruled piecemeal injury analysis flawed and urged evaluating all injuries together to determine total disability. Remand allows the fund to show reasonably available work near Lyons’ home within his capabilities. Chief Justice McFadden and Justices Shepard and Bistline concurred.
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George J. Lyons
Industrial Special Indemnity Fund
Lyers
Lyons
Penneney
Charles R. Donaldson
Tively
Indemnity Fund
Joseph McFadden
Allan Shepard
Steve Bistline
Union backs nuclear or coal plants in Idaho
Delegates at the Idaho AFL-CIO convention endorsed building nuclear or coal fired power plants in Idaho. State President Robert Macfarlane announced the resolution among 30 approved in closing sessions this week. The platform also backed national health insurance, opposed log exports, and urged sealed bids in state timber sales.
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Boise
UPI
Idaho
Afl-Cio
Robert Macfarlane
Space Shuttle Orbiter First Manned Piggyback Test Flight
All systems go for the first manned piggyback test of the Space Shuttle Orbiter aboard a Boeing 747 at Edwards AFB. Astronauts Fred Haise and Gordon Fullerton will fly a 49 minute mission reaching 15 000 feet at 207 mph over a 44 mile ellipse. NASA Mission Control in Houston will supervise the test before Dryden takes over after landing.
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James J. Doyle
Edwards Afb
API
High Desert
Fred Haise
Gordon Fullerton
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission Control Center
Houston
Tex
Dryden Research Center
For Sale Household Items and Tools Brief
For sale items include a dresser with pod shape chairs needing work plus four cane bottom chairs offered at 40 dollars. Wonder head 15 dollars pull lamp 5 dollars four radial H70x15 tires 100 dollars. A HP 252 calculator with programs listed at 100 dollars. Call Layne after 7 pm June 16.
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