Eastern Idaho Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid wannabes busted • FLDS papers mention Idaho polygamists • Attacking the WAC • 120-year-old desks uncomfortable for students • Ketchum high-end development latest to go belly up • Debating guns in national parks

Eastern Idaho Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid wannabes busted

Two eastern Idaho men accused of burglarizing more than three dozen Snake River Valley businesses have been caught and face felony burglary charges

Shawn Fahlsing and Bodie Sargent, both of Idaho Falls, had been tearing it up for several weeks before law enforcement agencies caught up with them.

"They put a lot of terror in other people and businesses," Madison County Sheriff Roy Klingler said.

Read more at The Post-Register's Web site. (Subscription required)

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FLDS papers mention Idaho polygamists

The Salt Lake Tribune reports that census sheets found at a polygamous sect's ranch in west Texas both support and contradict a widespread culture of underage marriage.

The FLDS papers, found in a safe on the property, show the residences of husbands, wives and children in the sect. While most are shown as living at the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Texas, some are listed as being in Short Creek (the name for Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz.) and others are described as living in Idaho, "elsewhere" or in the "house of hiding."

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Attacking the WAC

Sports Web site The Bleacher Report has a silly list that compares WAC football programs to musicians.

Boise State = Nickelback. The site says of BSU, "(They) put out a ton of hits recently. You keep thinking that their gonna go away, but they keep putting out hits."

Idaho = GWAR. According to the list, "They're weird. They're terrible. And nobody even cares about them."

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120-year-old desks uncomfortable for students

A two-room school in White Bird that has been open since 1888 may be closing soon if voters don't pass a school district levy later this month.

If the school closes, the 18 students that go there will be sent to Grangeville.

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Ketchum high-end development latest to go belly up

New West reports on a planned high-end subdivision and golf course development in Ketchum that filed for bankruptcy last week.

The scrapping of plans for The Village Green at the Valley Club is the latest in a string of bankruptcies among developments in the West - "further evidence that the high-end real estate market in the West has been deeply affected by the credit crunch."

The story mentions Tamarack and the Promontory Club in Utah.

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Debating guns in national parks

The Las Vegas Sun editorializes on guns in national parks, quoting Sen. Mike Crapo as saying, "It's more a matter of, why not? We've got a guy who's a Westerner as interior secretary. He certainly understands these issues."

The editorial ends by saying, "Without any better reason than 'Why not?' to work with, (Interior Secretary Dirk) Kempthorne is wrong to be proposing any change."