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At times during Robb Akey's first two years at Idaho, it was understandable when the Vandals' place in college football was questioned.They were on their third coach since 2005. They won just three games in Akey's first two seasons as he tried to weed out players who had little interest in his energetic, sometimes folksy style.
BOISE
Everyone knows Freddie Barnes is going to get the ball.And yet, no one has come close to stopping the Bowling Green receiving star.
BOISE
Attorney General Lawrence Wasden says Idaho homeowners who were duped into paying a New Jersey company to help them modify their mortgages will get more than $19,000 in a settlement.Wasden says the investigation into Weston, New Jersey-based Best Interest Rate Mortgage Co. LLC began with a complaint about a direct-mail advertisement.
BOISE
More than 33,000 jobs lost, millions of dollars cut from the state budget and foreclosures peppering neighborhoods across the state - many Idaho residents spent 2009 hoping and praying for better times ahead.The economic crisis touched nearly every aspect of life in Idaho, reaching into public school classrooms, local housing markets, the halls of the Statehouse and the courts to become the biggest news story of 2009.
BOISE
Beneath Idaho's Capitol dome, Bob Geddes lost his bearings. Not his political bearings; the Soda Springs Republican remains Senate president.But in an underground hallway excavated during $122.5 million worth of expansion and renovations these past two years, Geddes recently became disoriented. Pointing toward Senate meeting rooms, he said, "This is the House side. I think."
COEUR DALENE
Police in northern Idaho said two Washington state men were shot in Coeur d'Alene early Sunday morning, and a third man from Idaho who is thought to be the gunman has been taken into custody.Brandon R. Burgess, 25, is in critical condition after being shot in the abdomen, and Bradley J. Phillips, 25, is expected to survive after being shot in the knee, The Spokesman-Review reported.
COEUR DALENE
Police in northern Idaho say two Moses Lake, Wash., men in their early 20s were shot in Coeur d'Alene early Sunday morning and that a third man from Coeur d'Alene has been taken into custody.Police say bystanders wrestled the 25-year-old gunman to the ground and held him until police arrived.
COEUR DALENE
A Spokane, Wash., man has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against the state of Idaho for injuries he says resulted from a crash caused by potholes on Interstate 90 in northern Idaho.Kasey Crick, 22, filed the lawsuit Dec. 18 after the state denied any wrongdoing in response to a tort claim he had filed following the Dec. 28, 2007, accident.
BOISE
Text of a statement relayed by an Idaho National Guard spokesman from the family of Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, who was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan:"The Bergdahl family pleads with the captors to let our only son come home. To Bowe: We love you and we believe in you. Stay strong."
NAMPA
At 43, Doug Prickett had long left his military career behind, settling in the southwestern Idaho farming and manufacturing town where he was born and establishing a small horseshoeing business.He also had a job with the city of Nampa's water department in the sagebrush-ridden high desert. And yet, watching an Army National Guard recruiter sit across the kitchen table from his youngest son five years ago, Prickett had to ask.
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