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Asotin County officials 'in the dark' on towers - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
Asotin County officials have little information about how a wireless communications project will become operational after more than $300,000 has been spent and the anticipated start-up date missed by 14 months.
Butch Aiken, emergency management director for the county, said five microwave towers are in place in the county to provide advanced communications among emergency service providers and Whitcom [...]
Idaho County official rips insurance-driven process - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
GRANGEVILLE - The fear that a governmental body might be sued has resulted in a distortion of power, one Idaho County commissioner believes, and allows insurance companies to hold sway over elected officials.
After Idaho County recently reached a settlement agreement with former sheriff's Lt. Skott Mealer, a 32-year veteran of the force who was the subject of an [...]
Prosecutor says Mallory battered wife - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
Gary W. Mallory II repeatedly asked Lewiston police to take him to jail during conversations with officers the day of his wife's death.
Officer testimony described Mallory putting his hands behind his back on more than one occasion, and asking for a cigarette prior to his transport to jail, even before officers had a chance to interview him about [...]
Getting a jump on spring - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
For most area farmers, spring work to prepare the fields for planting is on the horizon, but for a few in the Tammany area it’s in progress now. [...]
All he wanted was for the stars to align - Thu, 11 Mar 2010
MOSCOW - When Mac Hopson was born, two decades ago and a hemisphere away, the news was delivered by that uniquely 20th-century version of the town crier: a guy driving slowly down the street with a loudspeaker mounted to the top of his car.
This was in the small town of Marcos Juarez, Argentina, where Hopson's father, Phil, [...]
