News Digest:
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:44 AM PDT
GOOD AFTERNOON
IDAHO
Plane crashes near Glenns Ferry
GLENNS FERRY (AP) — Authorities say the pilot of a single-engine crop dusting plane has died after crashing in a farm field near the southern Idaho town of Glenns Ferry.
Elmore County Sheriff officials identified the pilot as 21-year-old James Howard Nau, of Caldwell. Authorities say he died at the scene from injuries suffered in the crash, which occurred Tuesday about 7:30 a.m. about nine miles south of Glenns Ferry.
OREGON
Grant could begin air service to NW Oregon
ASTORIA (AP) — Passenger air service to Oregon’s northwest coast could be re-established through a $3.6 million grant.
The money is part of the $100 million ConnectOregon II program announced Friday. It is financed through bonds and lottery revenue.
Ore. sends 2,400
firefighters to Calif.
PORTLAND (AP) — Oregon officials say more than 2,400 firefighters have been sent to Northern California to fight lightning-caused wildfires. An official says the thousands of lightning strikes that peppered California with fires also hit Oregon — but with far different results.
Since Oregon had a cold, wet winter, Oregon forests are less combustible. The lightning ignited fewer fires
THE NATION
House aims to stop price gouging at the gas pump
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats resurrecting a measure to punish price gouging and curb oil market speculation said Tuesday they will block Republican calls for expanded offshore drilling, an idea gaining popularity with gasoline costing $4 a gallon. The House was scheduled to vote later Tuesday on a bill that would make gouging in the sale of oil and gasoline a federal crime and impose stiff fines and jail time for violators.
It was a repeat performance. The House passed the same anti-gouging law earlier this year.
