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2 children dead in West Point, older brother missing

Brad W. Gary

Smoke shops' owner faces narcotics charges for selling spice

Last updated Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 11:46am

LEWISTON, Idaho --The owner of a pair of Lewiston smoke shops is facing multiple narcotics and racketeering charges relating to the alleged sale of the synthetic marijuana known as Spice.

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Jan Douglass, Boise, Idaho, narrowly avoided disaster as her SUV slid to stop on the edge of a pond on Riverside Drive in Boise Wednesday Jan. 18, 2012. Garden City emergency crews fearing the worst dispatched a dive team to the call but nobody was injured in the accident. Heavy snow made travel in the Treasure Valley difficult and often perilous. (AP Photo/Idaho Statesman, Darin Oswald)

Snowstorm smothers Intermountain region

Brad W. Gary Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 12:57pm

While some braved the fender bender-plagued streets to get home early from work or school Wednesday, Marcus Swearingen went sledding.

"It's not often you get 8-9 inches in a day, especially in Lewiston," said the Lewiston, Idaho man, joined by dozens of others at the makeshift sledding hill on Bryden Canyon Golf Course.

Many area schools that didn't opt for snow days had closed by Wednesday afternoon, prompting pickup trucks piled with snow hounds to fill the snow-covered fairways.

"It's getting better and better the more it gets packed down," Swearingen sa

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Man survives 100-foot drop

Brad W. Gary Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 9:06am

LEWISTON, Idaho -- A Clarkston man survived an apparent jump from a Lewiston railroad bridge Tuesday afternoon, though he remained hospitalized in critical condition after the fall.

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Lewis and Clark were OK, but not those who followed, prof. says

Brad W. Gary, The Lewiston Morning Tribune

Last updated Friday, June 3, 2011 - 8:41am

There wasn't even an idea of Lewiston, Idaho when the Nez Perce signed their first agreement with explorers Lewis and Clark in 1806.

But retired Lewis-Clark State College professor Steven Evans told a group at LCSC Thursday the town of Lewiston, like so many other towns in the United States, was founded on broken promises with the American Indians.

"There are actually hundreds and hundreds of individuals who had agreements over the years," Evans told about 75 people who gathered for "Agreements made, agreements broken," part of the sesquicentennial lecture series at LCS

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Phone scammers don't know when to quit

Brad W. Gary, The Lewiston Morning Tribune

Last updated Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 11:17am

LEWISTON, Idaho -- Mary Jane Cline knew right away the prize being offered was too sweet to be real.

But the phone calls from a Jamaican area code promising $1.5 million and a litany of prizes quickly turned from minor annoyance to frustration when they repeated more than 10 times over three days late last week.

"The guy was going to deliver the money that afternoon, and we had to have $299 to give him for insurance on the check," Cline said of the calls that came into her and her husband's Lewiston Orchards home beginning Wednesday.

The man on the other end, who identified himself as Jonathan Taylor with Winner's International, said they were entered into the contest out of a pool of credit-card users at Walmart.

Winner's International is not accredited by the Better Business Bureau.

Thankfully, Cline and her husband could smell the scam coming miles away.

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