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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Boise Police say a 5-year-old boy is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after a driver in a minivan hit him while he was riding his bike. Police say the minivan hit the boy late yesterday afternoon near South Junior High School. Witnesses told officers the minivan dragged the child about 40 feet before it stopped. The boy was wearing a helmet.
BURLEY, Idaho (AP) — Cassia County commissioners have admitted to another open meeting violation following an investigation by a Jerome County prosecutor. The Times-News reports the board admitted to holding an illegal meeting in March. Commissioners had moved the March 23 meeting from their chambers to a restaurant without placing the move on the agenda.
MELBA, Idaho (AP) — A restaurant owner in southwestern Idaho is working to change his small town's strict liquor laws so he can sell cocktails by the glass. The owner of Buck's Saloon and Steakhouse in Melba tells the Idaho Press Tribune that he's gotten enough voter signatures to add a ballot initiative seeking to overturn the liquor ban for the Nov. 3 election.
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park has a new chief ranger. Pete Webster is Yellowstone's 17th chief ranger in the nearly 100 years the park has been managed by the National Park Service. He succeeds Tim Reid, who became the superintendent at Devils Tower National Monument last fall.
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