ARTICLES BY REBECCA BOONE/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Judge questions prison workers on 'dry cells' with no water

BOISE - Inmates at a prison near Boise were frequently housed in so-called "dry cells" without running water or mattresses except for a handful of days when a court-appointed examiner visited the facility, documents state.

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Prison heart attack lawsuit moves forward

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Idaho inmates, prison officials face off in lengthy lawsuit

BOISE - Inmates at an Idaho prison are asking a federal judge to sanction the state because they believe prison officials deliberately misled a court-appointed examiner on prison health care by tampering with medical records and hiding problem inmates.

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Grocers, potato growers settle lawsuit

BOISE - A federal judge has signed a $25 million settlement in a lawsuit between wholesale grocers and potato farming associations accused of forming a price-fixing cartel.

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Concordia Law School gets provisional accreditation from ABA

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Justice Department declines charges in Idaho prison scandal

BOISE - The U.S. Justice Department has declined to press criminal charges in connection with an investigation into allegations of contract fraud and public corruption at a private prison in Idaho.

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Boise veterans face long waits for specialty care

BOISE - Patients seeking care at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Boise continued to experience some of the longest waits for care in the entire VA system, even after Congress appropriated billions of dollars to help fix chronic delays, according to government data reviewed by The Associated Press.

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Prisons boss seeks higher officer pay

BOISE - The new director of the Idaho Department of Correction is asking lawmakers to approve a significant pay increase for experienced prison staffers in hopes of reducing the department's high turnover rate.

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Ybarra seeks $87M school budget boost

BOISE - Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra said she wants local school officials to decide how money should be spent in the classroom.

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Idaho prison official retires

BOISE - Robin Sandy, a longtime Idaho Board of Correction member and the first woman to serve as chairman, has retired after 18 years.

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Kempf named new director of Idaho prisons

BOISE - The Idaho Board of Correction has appointed Kevin Kempf as the new director of prisons one week after his predecessor, Brent Reinke, gave his resignation notice.

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Idaho scales back prison problem claims

BOISE - Idaho Department of Correction officials on Wednesday dramatically scaled back their assessment of problems encountered when they took over the running of the state's largest prison from Corrections Corporation of America this month.

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Judge promises ruling soon on Idaho gay marriage

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Auditors: Idaho misspent $2.5M in welfare funds

BOISE - State auditors say the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare misspent $2.5 million in federal welfare funding on salaries instead of using it to help pay for food, housing and other benefits provided to Idaho's poorest residents.

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Unhealthy jobs situation

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