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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional investigators say the Pentagon violated the law when it swapped five Taliban leaders for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held prisoner in Afghanistan for five years. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office says the Pentagon's use of funds to conduct the transfer, when no money was available, was a violation of the Antideficiency Act.
NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Police say a Nampa woman who was reported missing was killed by her boyfriend. Officers have arrested 39-year-old Alfredo Martinez as the main suspect on an unrelated parole violation but prosecutors have not charged him in connection with the death of Selena Thomas. In court documents filed in connecting cases, police contend that Martinez told them he struck his girlfriend in the head with a hammer and then buried her body in a cornfield.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The president of a failed southwest Idaho property management company has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison without the possibility of parole for defrauding investors. A restitution amount for 66-year-old Douglas Swenson will be set later. Attorneys say Swenson plans to appeal his conviction.
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Panhandle National Forest has launched a $1.8 million stream restoration project in northern Idaho. The Moose Drool Watershed Restoration Project aims to improve fish passages and in-stream fish habitat on almost 34 square miles of land. The Coeur d'Alene Press reports that workers will also install more than 1,000 pieces of woody debris to improve the fish habitat in the streams.
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