LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A company that officials say preyed on veterans for their education benefits by steering them to for-profit colleges has agreed to pay $2.5 million to 20 states, including Idaho, and turn over its website to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Kentucky Attorney General Jack C
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho State Republican Party convention delegates in Twin Falls likely skirted a renewed, potentially messy internal fight over their party's closed primary by recommending the issue be studied, not addressed head-on. According to a resolution that cleared a convention committee on Friday, state leaders will be asked to scrutin
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A San Francisco-based federal appeals court ruled in 2002 that every aspect of an execution should be open to witnesses, from the moment the condemned enters the death chamber to his final heartbeat. The ruling established what was expected of the nine Western states within the court's jurisdiction. According to an Associated Press r
NAMPA, Idaho (AP) - Health officials in Idaho are encouraging residents to get vaccinated against pertussis - also called whooping cough - as neighboring Washington state struggles with its worst outbreak of the disease in decades. Southwest District Health spokeswoman Laurie Boston told the Idaho Press-Tribune that the disease doesn't know state boundary lines,
The first confirmed case of mad cow disease in the U.S. in six years has shown up in California. Officials are still investigating how the dairy cow contracted the disease. The government is stressing there is no threat to human health because no meat from the animal was ever headed for the food supply. The cow was already dead and since it was a dairy cow, the infected animal does not pose a health hazard according to the government. Scientists say milk does not transmit the disease. It only hurts humans when an infected animal’s meat is eaten.
(AP) - The state Board of Education is gathering input from the public on a campaign to double the number of Idaho adults between the ages of 25 and 34 with a college degree or certificate. Trustees are expected to review the Complete College Idaho plan at a June meeting. Board spokeswoman Marilyn Whitney says trustees will first accept public comments through May 15.
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(AP) - Students at Idaho's public universities will pay $274 to $356 more in tuition next year. The increases approved Wednesday by the state Board of Education are relatively modest compared to those set in recent years as the universities looked to offset declines in state funding.
