In brief: Woman dies 12 hours after two-car crash

A Post Falls woman died early Sunday at Kootenai Medical Center following a two-car crash Saturday afternoon. Two other people remain hospitalized.

Candice M. Lyman, 57, died about 12 hours after the accident, said Sgt. Kevin Smart of the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department. Smart said the accident is still under investigation, and that the Sheriff’s Department does not know whether Lyman’s death resulted from the accident or from a previous medical condition.

Lyman was a passenger in a 2000 Pontiac Montana minivan driven by Michael W. Lyman, 19, also of Post Falls, when it failed to stop at a stop sign around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, the Sheriff’s Department reported. The minivan hit a 2006 Toyota Camry driven by Rebekah D. Bryant, 34.

Bryant and her passenger, Jacqueline J. Bryant, 60, both of Post Falls, remain hospitalized in fair condition, a KMC spokeswoman said.

Michael Lyman, who was treated and released, had been heading south on Greensferry Road at the intersection with Hayden Avenue when the accident occurred, Smart said. The Bryant vehicle had been westbound on Hayden, he said.

Michael Lyman was cited for failing to stop at a posted stop sign and failing to display insurance information, the Sheriff’s Department said.

Bill would hasten tech high school

A North Idaho lawmaker plans to introduce a bill in the approaching legislative session that would allow a planned professional-technical high school on the Rathdrum Prairie to open a year earlier.

Idaho state Sen. John Goedde, R-Coeur d’Alene, said he hopes to have the Kootenai Technical Education Campus open in 2012 rather than 2013.

Goedde said the bill would allow preliminary work on the school, such as architectural and engineering planning, to be finished earlier.

He said the rules are set up currently so that work can’t begin until all the money for the project is in the bank.

Mountain goat suspected in death

PORT ANGELES, Wash. – A 63-year-old hiker was fatally injured in Olympic National Park, and rangers suspect an encounter with a mountain goat is to blame.

The National Park Service said Robert H. Boardman, of Port Angeles, was hurt Saturday as he hiked near the park’s Klahhane Ridge and died hours later at a Port Angeles hospital.

Officials did not provide any specifics on his injuries but said an early investigation indicates they came as a result of the encounter with the goat.

Rangers tracked down and killed the animal, which will be analyzed by a veterinary pathologist.

The park service said other details will be released later.