Around Oregon/Idaho
Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:41 AM PDT
Idaho suspends
license of day care where boy died
TWIN FALLS (AP) — The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has suspended the license of Happy Feet day care in Twin Falls in the wake of a toddler’s death. Police say they have yet to determine if any crime was committed in last month’s death of 14-month-old Brenden Joshua Becker. Emergency workers were called to the day care because the child wasn’t breathing. They resuscitated him, and he was flown to a Boise hospital, but he died two days later.
Phone photo helps police catch Medford burglar
MEDFORD (AP) — Medford police say an alert neighbor with a cell-phone camera allowed them to catch a burglar headed to Portland on a Greyhound bus. Terry Munday noticed a suspicious-looking stranger in a neighbor’s yard. He then followed the man around the block and took his picture. When the neighbor arrived home to find someone had ransacked her bedroom and stolen her jewelry, Munday provided the photo to police. A parole officer recognized the man as 44-year-old Donnie Warner, who had recently left prison.
Officials denounce racist literature
COEUR D’ALENE, (AP) — Law enforcement officers from Coeur d’Alene and Spokane, Wash. are speaking out to denounce the distribution of racist literature in the region. The Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, the Spokane and Kootenai County Sheriff’s departments and mayors and police chiefs of several Inland Northwest cities are holding a press conference on Friday to condemn the hate pamphlets being dropped in Kootenai and Spokane counties.
City attorney to
examine Ashland’s
nudity ban
ASHLAND (AP) — The Ashland City Council will have the city attorney examine whether its partial ban on public nudity can be expanded to include areas near schools. The council’s 4-2 vote this week also directs City Attorney Richard Appicello to research the legality of the current ordinance banning the display of genitals in parks and downtown.
Council members contend the restrictions may violate rights to freedom of expression.
