ROGERSBURG, WA - A wildfire that started Saturday afternoon south of Asotin has now burned hundreds of acres of grass and brush and is considered still active. The Mail Trail fire started about one and a half miles west of Rogersburg, according to the Blue Mountain Interagency Dispatch Center. Officials say it started behind a home.

Mark Wilkening with the Bureau of Land Management says it has now burned approximately 1,000 acres, with only 40 acres of the fire on BLM land. He adds that an investigator is on scene today to determine the cause. No structures have been reported damaged, although at one point a structure was threatened.

Two wheat growers in Washington state have filed suit against Monsanto over the unauthorized release of genetically modified wheat.

The lawsuit claims the discovery of the unapproved wheat has hurt farmers' export markets. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Spokane on behalf of all domestic soft white wheat growers and seeks class action status.

Dreger Enterprises of Creston and Wahl Ranch of Lind are the named plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

Genetically engineered, experimental wheat was found growing in an 80-acre field in Oregon last week. The wheat was the same strain as one designed by Monsanto to be herbicide-resistant. It was tested in Oregon and several other states through 2005 but was never approved.

A Kansas farmer filed suit against the company Tuesday.

District Court Judge John Stegner sentenced Rhonda Bunney to a period of 2 -5 years and retained jurisdiction in the custody of the Idaho Department of Corrections.

Bunney is the former Support Services Administrator for the Latah County Sheriff's Office that plead guilty to the "misuse of public funds", in that she stole more than $56,000.00 in public monies.