Zip lines, poached moose, cell phone disconnect, and Wheel of Misfortune
In NW news:
TWIN FALLS, Idaho — The Twin Falls Planning and Zoning Commission rejected a plan to build a zip line in the Snake River Canyon. Commissioners voted 3-3 on Tuesday, with two commissioners recusing themselves. The Times-News reported that commissioners noted the company, Magic Valley Flight Simulation, didn’t bring a business plan and engineering documents to the meeting and didn’t have a wetlands impact assessment.
Bummer. Sounds like a fun idea.
SANDPOINT — An Idaho State Police trooper accused of shooting a moose in Bonner County before the start of last fall’s hunting season has been charged with misdemeanor poaching. Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson says he filed a misdemeanor charge because Cpl. Jeff Jayne has agreed to plead guilty. Jayne has said he incorrectly memorized the dates for the start of hunting season. A plea agreement calls for a $500 fine, six months of unsupervised probation and the revocation of Jayne’s hunting and fishing privileges for two years.
Poached moose sounds nasty anyway.
SALEM, Ore. — A teenage boy has been suspended from an Oregon middle school after a cell phone with a camera was found in a girls’ locker room in the town of St. Paul. The Statesman Journal reports there was no indication a recording on the phone had been distributed after it was discovered Friday during a girls’ basketball game. St. Paul School Superintendent and high school Principal Sid Hobgood said a student told him Friday during the game there was a camera in the team’s locker room. Hobgood said the 14-year-old boy who was suspended is an eighth-grader at St. Paul Middle School, which shares facilities with the high school. Marion County sheriff’s deputies are investigating.
No word on who he was trying to call.
VANCOUVER, Wash. – Scott Dole thought he’d scored the jackpot — or at least $51,600 — when he won “Wheel of Fortune.” More than a year later, he hasn’t seen a dime. A messy divorce between the 40-year-old Vancouver man and his wife has placed the winnings in escrow until the courts can sort through who gets what. Turns out it’s been somewhat of a wheel of misfortune. His wife wants half of the money, though she filed for divorce well before he taped the show. He might have to pay taxes on the winnings without actually having seen the money. And his brush with fame has prolonged finalizing his divorce by more than a year.
I'm sure he'd like to by a lot more than a vowel.
