ASOTIN, WA - 51-year-old Charles Capone appeared via video link this afternoon while his attorney, Mark Monson, appeared via telephone as Asotin County Superior Court Judge William Acey approved a contract for dismissal of charges no later than May 1st. Capone is facing one count of 2nd-degree assault-domestic violence against his missing estranged wife.

40-year-old Rachael Anderson was last seen on April 16, 2010. The alleged assault happened on December 27, 2009 - just days before Anderson filed for divorce.

Idaho's Congressional members have sent a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in an effort to convince him not to close the state's five air traffic control towers that are targeted under sequestration, including the one at the Lewiston-Nez Perce County Regional Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration announced its intention to close a total of 173 towers on April 7th.

For the third consecutive year Lewis-Clark State College has been selected for the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.  The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) announced the 2013 award, which recognizes institutions whose students, faculty, and staff work alongside the community to solve problems.

In the application, LCSC featured an alternative parking design prepared by students in Dr. Jenni Light’s Introduction to Engineering class, the annual Hells Canyon Institute led by Dr. Patricia Keith and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service organized by Lewis-Clark Service Corps. 

College students make a significant contribution to their communities through volunteering and service, according to the most recent Volunteering and Civic Life in America report.  In 2012, more than 1100 LCSC students, faculty and staff served almost 61,500 hours with a variety of community organizations — a contribution valued at almost $1 million.