Twin Falls County is seeking damages against a former employee who in 2021
was awarded a $664,000 judgment in a jury trial but later settled for a lower
monetary amount when a new trial was ordered. Brent Hilliard, a former
Twin Falls Sheriff’s captain who said he was wrongfully terminated from the
sheriff’s office, is being sued for breach of contract after court records say he
is attempting to back out of the settlement.
Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, along with attorneys general from
North Dakota, Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, South Carolina, and South Dakota, sued
the EPA and the Biden Administration to protect state rights over their water
and wildlife resources. The EPA’s new rule forces states to prioritize tribal
claims over the rights of their citizens.
Suntado, a US-based contract manufacturer of dairy and other beverages, has
opened a 190,000-square-foot production facility in Burley. The company
expects the facility to be commercially ready this month – at which point it
will be able to process up to 1 million lbs of local milk per day into shelf-stable
and extended shelf life milk and other liquid dairy products.
Idahoans are seeing a nice change at the pump. According to GasBuddy, the
average cost of unleaded gasoline in Idaho was $3.69 per gallon, as of the first
week of June. The lowest price recorded in the state was $3.12 per gallon,
while the highest was $3.99, a difference of 87 cents per gallon.
Chad Daybell has been transferred to the Idaho Maximum Security Institution
in Kuna following his formal death sentence, which was determined by a jury
on Saturday. According to the transfer records, Daybell entered the custody of
the maximum security prison at 9:34 am yesterday.
Weather forecasters say yesterday’s cool weather won’t be hanging around as
the rest of the week will see increasing temps in southern Idaho. Summer will
arrive with a bang later this week as a high-pressure system from Mexico
moves northward through the Great Basin. The Weather Service was
forecasting a high of 80 degrees for today, 84 tomorrow, 92 for Thursday and
94 for Friday.
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