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SHELLEY, Idaho (AP) — Some school buses in Idaho, Oregon and Washington will run cleaner thanks to a $20,000 award from the Environmental Protection Agency.
The Idaho State Journal reports that school buses in three districts will be retrofitted with cleaner diesel engines. The EPA announced on Friday that $115,000 in rebates would retrofit older diesel school buses at the Shelley School District in Idaho, the North Wasco County School District in Oregon and the Moses Lake School District in Washington.
JEROME, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho State Police say they've arrested a Washington man on felony drug trafficking charges. Police stopped a 2015 Nissan on Interstate 84 in Jerome County at about 8:30 p.m. Friday. It was driven by Sergio Maldonado Farias of Monroe, Washington. Police searched his vehicle and found about 4.5 pounds of methamphetamine. It has a street value of about $45,000.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The state of Idaho is appealing a federal court's decision to overturn the state's "ag-gag law." The Spokesman Review reports that the law makes it a crime to surreptitiously videotape agriculture operations. Idaho lawmakers passed it in 2014 after the state's $2.5 billion dairy industry complained that videos of cows being abused at a southern Idaho dairy unfairly hurt their business.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — After two years of refusing to comply with a federal law intended to stop prison rape, Idaho has reversed course. The governor advised the U.S. Department of Justice in a letter this week that Idaho's prisons, jails and juvenile detention centers would work toward coming into full compliance with federal standards. Idaho has lost roughly $82,000 a year in federal grant money for refusing to comply earlier.
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