Skyfest returns to Fairchild
Fairchild Air Force Base’s annual Skyfest on July 29-30 will feature the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds both days.
Demonstrations by an F-15 Eagle, F-117A Nighthawk Stealth fighter, a World War II era P-51 Mustang and the Canadian Skyhawks parachute team are also scheduled.
Skyfest was canceled last year because of lack of personnel.
About 100,000 people are expected to attend this year’s show, which is free to the public.
For more information, visit http://public.fairchild .amc.af.mil/.
Region
Emergency drill will test agencies
Emergency organizations throughout Eastern Washington and North Idaho will test their readiness today to move resources from one place to another.
The three-hour Homeland Security drill, starting at 10 a.m., will involve agencies from 10 Eastern Washington counties as well as the Spokane, Colville and Kalispel tribal governments and North Idaho’s Panhandle Health District.
Officials will gather at St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Center in Spokane to test all the communications systems available to them, including the Emergency Alert System on area television and radio stations.
Latah County
Bottle thrown from car injures deputy
A Latah County sheriff’s deputy was treated for minor cuts Monday night when a passing motorist hurled a beer bottle through the officer’s windshield.
Cpl. Darrin Johnson was southbound on U.S. Highway 95, about four miles north of Moscow, Idaho, when the driver of a northbound dark green midsize car threw the bottle about 7:30 p.m., a sheriff’s spokesman said. A juvenile passenger in Johnson’s car was not injured.
The Sheriff’s Office asked anyone with information about the man who threw the bottle to call (208) 882-2216.
Billings
Nearly half of killed bison had disease
Blood samples taken from 889 bison slaughtered after being captured from Yellowstone National Park show that 44 percent of the animals had brucellosis, according to results provided by the state veterinarian Monday.
The figures show that 392 bison from which usable samples were obtained and analyzed tested positive, while 488 bison, tested negative.
Tests for 1 percent, or nine bison, came back “sero-suspect,” meaning the results weren’t conclusive, said Teresa Howes, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
The figures are in keeping with a prevalence rate of between 40 percent and 50 percent in the Yellowstone bison herd, state veterinarian Tom Linfield said.
From staff and wire reports