Archive for May 12th, 2008

Filed Under (Idaho, LC Valley, LCSC, Lewiston, News, Sports) by Brian Danner on May-12-2008

The Lewis-Clark State baseball team completed a season sweep over Gonzaga Monday night in Spokane, Washington. Junior right-hander Ryan Woods allowed an unearned run, while scattering five hits with 4 strikeouts over 6 innings of work in improving to 8-1 on the year.

Senior Justin Mace added 2.2 innings of scoreless relief as the Warriors beat the Zags 8-3.

Offensively, Lewiston senior Kyle Greene had two hits, including his team leading 29th double and 17th home run, and had three RBI, while sophomore second baseman Josh Ashenbrenner and senior outfielder Nic Benton had three hits apiece.

Greene’s double was his 29th of the season – tying him with former Warrior Chad Miltenburger for the most 2-base hits in a season. Up next, LC opens the best-of-three NAIA West Coast Super Regional series against Region II champion Azusa Pacific at Harris Field Wednesday night.

Game time is set for 6pm PDT with live coverage on Talk Radio 950 KOZE-AM and on-line at koze-sports.com.



Filed Under (Idaho, News) by Jason Ford on May-12-2008

A Sept. 15 trial date has been set for a Tumwater, Wa., man accused of sexual misconduct with boys at a Latah County Boy Scout camp.

Timothy Kellis, 38, pleaded innocent Monday afternoon in Moscow’s 2nd District Court to ten counts of lewd conduct with a minor younger than 16 and two counts of sexual abuse of a child younger than 16 for alleged incidents last year as a counselor at Camp Grizzly near Harvard.

Kellis, a band leader at A.G. West Black High School in Tumwater, worked as a teacher at Highland High School in Craigmont from 2001 to 2006, and was an assistant director for the Clarkston High School marching band from 1995 to 2006. He was also a Scout master in Clarkston.

Kellis is being held in the Latah County Jail on $100,000 bond.



Filed Under (Idaho, LC Valley, Lewiston, National, News) by Jason Ford on May-12-2008

A triple-murder suspect captured in Lewiston has been cleared to be extradited back to Louisiana, but he must first face two misdemeanor counts in Idaho.

A pretrial hearing is set for Tuesday morning in Lewiston’s 2nd District Court for Robert McCoy on charges of giving authorities false information and having a concealed weapon during his arrest.

McCoy, 34, is the prime suspect in the slayings of his estranged wife’s 17-year-old son and her parents Monday night in Bossier City, Louisiana. He was caught while traveling as a passenger in a Swift Transportation truck in the Normal Hill area Friday night. Authorities say he eluded authorities for nearly four days by fleeing to Texas, Arkansas and Washington, traveling as a passenger in 18-wheelers.

McCoy was taken into custody without incident, while the truck driver was not charged. A .380-caliber pistol was retrieved from behind the passenger seat of the truck, and Louisiana authorities believe the gun was used in the Bossier City murders.

McCoy was booked into the Nez Perce County Jail on three murder warrants and may face a charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.



Filed Under (Idaho, National, News, Politics) by Jason Ford on May-12-2008

Idaho’s last Democratic superdelegate to endorse a presidential candidate has announced his support for Sen. Barack Obama.

Keith Roark, the Idaho Democratic Party’s chairman, announced on Monday that he is backing Obama because he feels the Illinois senator will make a better president, run better against the Republican’s presumptive nominee, Sen. John McCain, and run a stronger campaign in Idaho.

Superdelegates are not bound by primary and caucus votes and help pick party nominees. With this year’s tight race between Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, superdelegates are likely to play a strong role in choosing the nominee.

Idaho has five superdelegates; four are backing Obama and the fifth will be chosen at the Democrats’ state convention in mid-June.



Filed Under (Idaho, National, News) by Jason Ford on May-12-2008

Idaho Lottery officials are trying to determine where a Powerball ticket worth $200,000 was sold in the state.

The ticket matched the first five numbers of a $20 million Powerball drawing last week – those numbers were 7, 18, 30, 41 and 45.

The Idaho Lottery last named a $200,000 ticket winner in March.

A Powerball drawing on Wednesday is worth up to $26 million.