News Headlines for Almo, Idaho

Lawn-chair balloonist drifts from Oregon to Idaho (CNN.com)
BEND, Oregon (AP) -- Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert Saturday, landing in a field in Idaho.

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Man Flies To Idaho ? In Lawn Chair (CBS News)
With a lawn chair, a dream and lots of balloons, Kent Couch successfully flew from Oregon to Idaho.

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150 party balloons carry Oregon man toward Idaho (AP via Yahoo! News)
Riding a green lawn chair rigged with more than 150 giant party balloons, Kent Couch took off with the sun Saturday, hoping to ride the wind from his gas station in Central Oregon to Idaho.

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Man Flies to Idaho on Balloon-Rigged Lawn Chair (Fox News)
Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch succeeded in his third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho.

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Third time's the charm for lawn-chair flight to Idaho (Detroit Free Press)
BEND, Ore. -- Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch succeeded Saturday in his third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho.

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Lawn-chair pilot lands safely in Idaho (The Washington Times)
BEND, Ore. (AP) | Using his trusty BB gun to help him return to Earth, a 48-year-old gas station owner flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert Saturday, landing in a field in Idaho.

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Five Idaho athletes vying for a spot on U.S. Olympic team Sunday (The Idaho Statesman)
Stacy Dragila may be five years older than anyone else in the women's pole vault finals at the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials, but the 1995 Idaho State gradaute and Pocatello resident has discovered the fountain of youth this Olympic year.

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Man Flies Lawn Chair From Oregon To Idaho (Fox 12 Oregon)
BEND, Ore. -- Kent Couch is getting the last laugh. He's shown up all those people, including his wife, who thought he was crazy to tie helium balloons to a lawn chair in hopes of floating from central Oregon to Idaho.

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Man Flies Lawn Chair From Oregon To Idaho (NBC 10 Philadelphia)
An Oregon man touches down in a pasture in Cambridge, Idaho, some 235 miles from where he lifted off -- in a lawn chair.

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Idaho poet, kayaker William Studebaker presumed drowned (The Idaho Statesman)
One of Idaho's foremost poets and kayakers is missing and was presumed drowned Friday south of Yellow Pine while kayaking in challenging rapids with friends.

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