In brief: Fifth claim made on Powerball winnings

A couple have come forward claiming to be the rightful owners of a $1 million Powerball ticket, making them the fifth party asking for the money from the ticket that was printed earlier this month.

The Idaho State Lottery Commission on Friday added Thomas and Lorie Park, of Eagle, to an updated complaint in 4th District Court.

The ticket matched all five numbers, but missed the Powerball, in the $142 million drawing on March 10. But because the ticket had a Power Play option selected, it is worth $1 million.

The ticket was produced incorrectly at a Maverik Store in Boise for a customer who refused it and ordered a different Powerball ticket. Tickets that are generated are the responsibility of retailers and can’t be canceled.

Thomas Park said he is the one who refused to pay for the incorrect ticket. He said he then had second thoughts and returned to buy it, but was given a different ticket.

Before the Parks, four others had filed claims for the winning ticket.

The store clerk who discovered the unsold winning ticket on the morning after the numbers were selected paid the store $20 for it, then filed a joint claim with the store director to share the prize. The clerk who produced the ticket, apparently in error, filed a separate claim. And Maverik Stores, a Wyoming business licensed to sell lottery tickets in Idaho, also filed a claim.

KALISPELL, Mont.

Glacier Park adding buses, vans

Thirty buses and vans being added to the Glacier National Park transportation system as part of an effort to reduce traffic will be used elsewhere during the park’s quiet seasons.

Officials Friday announced that eight 23-passenger buses and 22 12-passenger vans will travel Glacier’s Going-to-the-Sun Road during summer and will be used by transit services, including Flathead County’s Eagle Transit, at other times of the year.

Rides on the vans and buses are free, with their operations funded by a recent $5 increase in park entrance fees.

“This agreement allows for the sharing of limited resources for the common benefit of Glacier National Park visitors, the Montana cooperators and Montana in general … Rather than sit in storage, unused for much of the year, the buses will be used elsewhere in Montana to meet local transportation needs,” said Glacier Superintendent Mick Holm.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho

HIV-positive man facing charges

A southern Idaho man who reportedly told police he is HIV positive has been charged with six counts of violating a state law that requires a person with the virus that causes AIDS to notify sexual partners.

Twin Falls resident Matthew Milligan, 37, was charged in 5th District Court last week after two women reported having unprotected sex with him.

Milligan was being held in the Twin Falls County Jail on $50,000 bond.

Both women told police that Milligan never warned them that he was HIV positive.

According to court documents, Milligan told Chris Fullmer, a Twin Falls police detective, that he was serving time in a Texas prison when he became infected with HIV in 2002.

The first woman said a friend told her Milligan knew he was HIV positive. Four days later, on March 8, the woman went to police to report she had unprotected sex with Milligan three times.

Through her, police located a second woman, who also reported she had unprotected sex three times with Milligan in the last three months. She said Milligan didn’t tell her he was HIV positive until sometime in March.

IDAHO FALLS

African lion donated to E. Idaho zoo

A young male African lion has been donated to the Tautphaus Park Zoo in eastern Idaho, and zoo officials say they are optimistic he will produce cubs with a lioness already living there.

Dohoma, a year and a half old, is the first male African lion at the zoo in six years. He was donated by the Oklahoma City Zoo as part of the Species Survival Plan. That plan includes moving animals to different zoos to ensure genetic diversity in a captive breeding program.

However, zoo officials said it could be several years before Dohoma and the lioness named Sukari have any cubs because male lions don’t reach maturity until age 3.

“It’ll take a while,” said Bill Gersonde, zoo superintendent.

But he said the lions appear to be enjoying each other’s company.

“Before, (Sukari) was wound tighter than a snare drum,” Gersonde said. “She reacted to everything, but now she doesn’t.”

Compiled from wire reports.