In brief: Rewards offered in luring cases
Secret Witness is offering rewards for information that leads police to suspects in two child-enticing incidents last week in Coeur d’Alene.
Both happened Oct. 4, the first at 5:10 p.m. when a silver or gray SUV pulled up next to two teenage girls walking near 12th Street and Hastings Avenue. A male passenger with short brown hair and sunglasses offered them candy if they got into the vehicle.
The 14- and 15-year-olds declined and later told police the driver was a woman with long brown hair, and the two suspects were laughing as if joking with the girls, according to a Coeur d’Alene police news release. The suspects were white and in their late teens or early 20s.
Between 5 and 5:30 p.m., a maroon van slowed down next to two teenage girls riding their bicycles near Honeysuckle Drive and Stiner Avenue. A man in the front passenger seat asked the girls to get into the van, but they kept riding.
There were three men in the 1980s or ‘90s van, which had green license plates from an undetermined state, according to the release. The driver was described as white with a mustache, the passenger was described as black wearing a hooded jacket, and the third man was described as Hispanic with a mustache, the girls told police. All were in their 20s or 30s.
Anyone with information can anonymously call Secret Witness of Kootenai County at (208) 667-2111 or (888) 667-2111.
City Council forums slated
The Kootenai County Democratic Club will sponsor a forum for Post Falls City Council candidates today at noon at the Iron Horse Restaurant, 407 E. Sherman Ave., Coeur d’Alene.
The Democratic Club also will sponsor a noon forum for Coeur d’Alene City Council candidates Oct. 19 at the same location.
Nampa, Idaho
College opening moved back
Idaho’s newest community college will not open as early as administrators had hoped.
The College of Western Idaho is now expected to start regular classes next August, months behind the January 2008 target date initially set by the school’s administrators.
Interim President Dennis Griffin said more time is needed to get the college accredited. Without that status, students and the school would not be eligible for federal loans and grants and students could have difficulty transferring to other colleges.
Idaho Falls, Idaho
INL test site building to fall
The last building standing at a former test site at the Idaho National Laboratory is destined for destruction.
Demolition crews today will use explosives to bring down a facility known as the “Hot Shop,” located at INL’s former Test Area North.
The Hot Shop was built in 1954 to support research related to the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion project.