News Headlines for American Falls, Idaho

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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Oregon man takes off for Idaho in a lawn chair rigged with more than 150 party balloons (San Jose Mercury News)
BEND, Ore. - Riding in a green lawn chair rigged with a rainbow array of 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 all the way to Idaho.

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Man attempting Oregon-Idaho balloon flight in lawn chair (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
BEND, Ore. -- A man has taken flight in a lawn chair hoisted by more than 150 large helium-filled party balloons in a bid to ride the wind from the central Oregon town of Bend all the way to Idaho. Kent Couch was wearing a parachute Saturday morning as he kissed his wife and kids goodbye, patted his dog and took off at sunrise from his gas station.

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Idaho mobile home park to get new water source (The Olympian)
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission has ordered a private water company to start supplying water to a mobile home park in southwest Idaho that is currently supplied by a well contaminated with uranium.

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Idaho might change process for proposed feedlots (The Olympian)
The Idaho Department of Agriculture is taking comments this month on a plan to revamp how it determines potential risks to the environment at specific sites when a new feedlot is proposed.

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Up, up and away in lawn chair hoisted by 150 helium balloons — Oregon man heads to Idaho (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Riding a lawn chair supported by 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch is trying to fly from central Oregon to Idaho.

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150 party balloons carry Oregon man toward Idaho (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia 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. While most folks were still in bed after Fourth of July fireworks, Couch drank coffee and chatted while volunteers inflated balloons with helium and tied them in clusters to the chair. Wearing ...

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S. Idaho police find woman in canal (KBCI Boise)
Idaho State Police say 34-year-old Dora Ramirez, of Caldwell, was driving west on Interstate 84 when her Dodge Caravan went off the road and veered into a canal on Thursday.

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Southwest Idaho police on the alert for bank scams (KIVI Boise)
Associated Press - July 5, 2008 4:54 PM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Police say southwest Idaho banks are a target for bank fraud by people from California and other states who think Idaho bank...

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Liver cancer claims life of Idaho Sen. Tom Gannon (AG Weekly)
TWIN FALLS, Idaho - State Sen. Tom Gannon, a three-term Republican lawmaker from Buhl who battled health problems for months, died Tuesday at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise.

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