News Digest:
Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:50 AM PST
IDAHO — Idaho Falls poised to unveil new day care rules
IDAHO FALLS (AP) — The Idaho Falls City Council is getting ready to make public a new set of regulations for the city’s 150 day-care providers.
The city’s proposed plan will be unveiled during a public meeting Thursday. The proposed rules are the product of eight months of study and come after Idaho lawmakers declined last year to act on a statewide plan to tighten day care standards.
Suggested rule changes include requiring at least 35 square-feet of indoor activity space per child by 2010, an increase from current standards of 20 square-feet.
OREGON
Oregon governor gives thumbs down on
railroad subsidy
FLORENCE (AP) — Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski has turned down a railroad company’s request for state aid to repair tunnels along a 120-mile stretch of Coast Range track it has closed. The owners of the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad are asking the state, the federal government and the shippers who use the line from Eugene to Coquille for a commitment of more than $20 million before they sink $3 to $4 million into repairing the tunnels that prompted the Boca Raton-based hedge fund RailAmerica to close the line last fall.
Volunteer detectives crack 21-year-old Oregon murder case
SALEM (AP) — Detectives say they’ve solved a 21-year-old case with the arrest of a Central Oregon man on a murder charge. Marion County Sheriff Russ Isham says 34-year-old Edward Jeffrey was gunned down in the driveway of his rural Salem home in December 1986 as he was coming home from work.
On Wednesday, Isham announced the arrest of 48-year-old Patrick McCreary of Redmond.
He says the cold case was cracked by a team of four detectives, including one from the FBI. They have commissions as special deputies and work for a full-time detective in the sheriff’s office.
Isham and his deputies didn’t say what led them to McCreary, although a department spokesman says McCreary had been mentioned when the case was investigated the first time around.
