News Digest
Sunday, May 6, 2007 12:22 AM PDT
IDAHO - U of I to grant 100,000th degree this year
MOSCOW (AP) — The University of Idaho bestowed its first two degrees in 1894, and this year will bestow No. 100,000.
The school will give out 1,724 degrees this month at ceremonies in Moscow, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Falls and Boise, including the statistical landmark.
The University of Idaho opened its doors in October 1892, and the first bachelor degrees were conferred in 1894.
Police on drug raid hit wrong home
PONDERAY (AP) — Police who broke down the door of the wrong mobile home during a drug raid found no one home when they finally got the address right and their search warrant amended — the occupant had already turned himself in on a drug charge.
‘‘It was our mistake,’’ Sandpoint Police Chief Mark Lockwood told the Bonner County Daily Bee.
OREGON
House agrees to send
land-use law back to
voters
SALEM (AP) — The Oregon House on Friday decided to ask voters to weigh in again on the state’s controversial property-rights law by placing on the ballot a measure to scale back rural development that would be allowed under the law.
If it is endorsed by the Senate, the referral measure would put the issue before voters later this year, in a special election either in September or November.
THE NATION
Officials order 20 million chickens held from
market
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials on Friday placed a hold on 20 million chickens raised for market in several states because their feed was mixed with pet food containing an industrial chemical.
Three government agencies — the Agriculture Department, the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency — are overseeing a risk assessment to determine whether the chickens would pose a threat to human health if eaten, USDA spokesman Keith Williams said.
