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I have been a customer for over 25 years and am a bit upset that we are not receiving official records for Kootenai County anymore, but instead for Spokane County. My interest is in Kootenai County and what is happening in our neighborhoods and at our courts. It seems that there is very little coverage of our area by your paper anymore, not what I am wanting to purchase daily. I have conferred with others and they are upset also. Please advise if this is a permanent change and if it is, all I have spoken with will be canceling their subscriptions too.
Sad for all/Jacqui. Answer: In response to complaints about the disappearance of the Idaho public records in our newspaper, we're working on a solution. We believe we'll be able to publish them in our weekly zoned editions -- the Handle Extra and the Post Falls Voice.
OMRF, drug company settle patent lawsuit
They didn't just discover it and throw it over the transom; they worked hard on what ultimately became a life-saving treatment for patients." The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Tulsa and was only the second OMRF has filed over a patent dispute out of more than 40 active license agreements, Prescott said. In a joint statement released by OMRF and Alexion on Thursday, David Keiser, president and chief operating officer of the publicly traded company thanks OMRF for its contributions to Soliris. "Complex scientific breakthroughs are often built by combining research advances from different sources," Keiser said. The drug has been only on the market as an FDA approved drug for only about a year. Alexion sells Soliris to patients at an annual price tag of about $389,000, according to the lawsuit that OMRF filed.
Teen 'beggar' kills Pakistan's surgeon general in suicide attack
A teenage boy allegedly dressed as a beggar blew himself up Monday near a military vehicle carrying the Pakistani Army's surgeon general; seven other people also were killed. Meanwhile, gunmen burst into the offices of a British-based aid group in northwest Pakistan, shooting four local staffers to death and burning down their building. The assaults, both blamed on Islamic extremists, were the most serious outbreak of violence since parliamentary elections a week ago, in which the ruling party affiliated with President Pervez Musharraf was routed by two main opposition parties. In the attack that killed Lt. Gen. Mushtaq Ahmed Baig, the army's top medical officer, the "beggar" approached the general's car on foot on a busy street in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, authorities said.
First Edition Cycling News
Two weeks prior to the start of the Tour of California, BMC rider Scott Nydam's father, Ron Nydam was diagnosed with acute leukemia, made worse due to a previous low white cell count disorder. Before stage three started Wednesday morning, Nydam was leading two jersey categories as the event's most aggressive rider and king of the mountain thanks to his courageous back-to-back breakaways in stages two and three. Nydam is using his lengthy breakaways as a form of tribute to cancer patients for the strength and survival they must display on a daily basis. "My breakaway was a statement I was trying to make, [and] even though I didn't make it to the finish by myself, I was out there showing my Dad that I was fighting," said Nydam about his efforts during stage two during which he took over the leader's jersey in the king of the mountains and the most aggressive rider classifications.
This weekend's EDF Energy Cup games
Ben Daly starts at hooker, Andy Hall and Peter Sidoli come into the second row and the captain, Colin Charvis, moves to openside, with Michael Owen at No 8. Ospreys v London Irish Tomorrow, 4.10pm, Liberty Stadium All Blacks back-rower Marty Holah has been named on the Ospreys' bench. London Irish have an international front row, with the New Zealand prop Clarke Dermody making his debut alongside the former Springboks hooker Danie Coetzee and the Tongan prop Tonga Lea'aetoa. The Ireland flanker Aidan McCullen, centre Bryan Rennie and the locks James Hudson and Gary Johnson make their first starts of the season. Saracens v Bristol Tomorrow, 3pm, Vicarage Road Saracens welcome back three players from World Cup duty - Andy Farrell, who has shaken off his calf injury, and the Fiji captain Moses Rauluni and his compatriot Kameli Ratuvou.
89-year-old woman to campaign for election in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- A 89-year-old grandma has made headlines in local newspapers after she filed her nomination paper on Sunday to contest a Kuala Terengganu parliamentary seat in northern Malaysia. Maimun Yusof, a grandmother of 19 great grandchildren, perhaps the oldest election candidate ever in the country, was seen these days hitting the roads on her bicycle in Kuala Terengganu, capital of the Terengganu State, to meet voters and canvass for support. Maimun, a cloth trader living all her life at Gong Gemia Village in Kuala Terengganu, prepared campaign posters herself and used her own party name to challenge political heavyweights in the constituency. She attracted support at least from her friends and neighbors.
Liquor sales create a stir on MacArthur Boulevard
Package liquor sales and outdoor merchandise are the immediate concerns, but C.J. Dart also wonders about long-term prospects in the Springfield neighborhood where she has lived for 60 years. Dart is among residents planning to attend a meeting tonight sponsored by the MacArthur Boulevard Business Association on the proposed $1 million redevelopment of a Mobil Super Pantry at MacArthur and Ash Street. .
Grand green vision for S.F.'s Parkmerced
The owners of San Francisco's Parkmerced want to add nearly 5,700 homes to the World War II-era rental housing complex, an ambitious renovation that could rank as one of the greenest in the country. Over 20 years, the developer says, the minimum $1.2 billion project would take the 115-acre property off the power grid by employing wind turbines and other low-emission energy sources, slash water consumption through improved plumbing and recycling, and halve tenants' automobile use by, among other things, adding public transportation options. "I almost consider it a moral obligation in a project of this size to be responsible and do whatever we can do to help confront the problem of climate change," said Craig Hartman, lead architect on the project and partner with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP.
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