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Streetcar advocates win, critics lose elections

AP News 16 days ago

Streetcar advocates in Idaho, Ohio and NC fare well election night as critics lose A U.S. streetcar revival fared well in Tuesday's elections, with pro-trolley candidates for mayor in Cincinnati and Charlotte, N.C., winning. A critic of Boise's proposal lost. Streetcars are ...

3 get prison time for Idaho hate crime beating

AP News 17 days ago

3 get prison time for hate crime beating of black man outside Idaho Wal-Mart A federal judge says three Idaho men convicted of hate crimes for beating a black man outside a Nampa Wal-Mart will serve time in prison. U.S. District Judge ...

Travel briefs

AP Features 17 days ago

Travel briefs Film contest on why Orlando makes you smile ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Why does Orlando make you smile? If you're between the ages of 13 and 18 and can show the answer on film, you're invited to take part in ...

Schools improve certification for school lunches

AP News 17 days ago

Schools improve overall in direct certification for school lunches, but some states lag Schools are doing a better job of identifying students who are eligible for free or reduced-price school lunches, but some states are much better than others, the Agriculture Department ...

Children direct certified for school lunches

AP News 18 days ago

Children direct certified for school lunches The following is the percent of school-aged children from households receiving food stamps who were directly certified for free or reduced priced lunches by schools in 2008-2009. Percentages above 100 percent are possible because some school ...

Idaho officials plug Meridian as health care hub

AP News 18 days ago

Officials promote southwestern Idaho's Meridian corridor as health care hub Economic development officials are promoting a corridor in southwestern Idaho as a health care hub, as they count on an existing hospital and a new Idaho State University facility to help attract ...

Sapling from Anne Frank house Idaho-bound

AP Features 18 days ago

Chestnut tree sapling from Anne Frank house Idaho-bound A human rights memorial in Idaho's capital city will receive a sapling grafted from the chestnut tree that grew outside the secret annex in Amsterdam where Holocaust victim Anne Frank hid from the Nazis. ...

Idaho Falls projects biggest stimulus winners

AP News 21 days ago

Idaho Falls area is state's biggest recipient of federal stimulus funding The region surrounding Idaho Falls, with its energy laboratory and hazardous waste clean-up project, has been the biggest recipient of federal stimulus money. According to the latest reporting figures, the ZIP ...

New Yorker plans US Senate run in Idaho

AP News 22 days ago

New Yorker has never been to Idaho, but says he wants to be Gem State's next US senator A lawyer and history buff from New York City plans a long-shot run as a Democrat for the Idaho U.S. Senate seat held by ...

Swine flu prompts hundreds of schools to close

AP News 23 days ago

Swine flu prompts hundreds of schools to close, keeping tens of thousands of students home The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide and normally quiet school nurses' offices suddenly look like big city emergency rooms, packed ...

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