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2017 One year ago today

After more than an hour of discussion about the effects of parking on downtown businesses and surrounding neighborhoods, the Moscow Board of Adjustment - for the second time - approved a conditional use permit Tuesday night allowing New Saint Andrews College to expand into the former Cadillac Jack's building on North Main Street. ... The Pullman City Council approved putting two bond issues on general election ballots this November, including one to relocate City Hall from its current location on Paradise Street. The other would ask voters to renew a $2.4 million, 10-year Parks and Recreation bond passed in 2007 to continue work on a number of parks projects.

2013 Five years ago today

Whitman County Superior Court Judge David Frazier rejected a plea agreement Friday for Daniel Lazcano in the shooting death of Marcus Schur. Lazcano was prepared to plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter, but Frazier said it would be an insult to the system after two mistrials the judge blamed on false testimony and overall deceit on the part of the defendant, his family and friends. ... University of Idaho researchers who have spent two summers conducting an archaeological field study at the site of a World War II internment camp for Japanese-American men will present their findings Saturday in Lowell, Idaho.

2008 10 years ago today

The Moscow Police Department is not releasing any new information about a July 9 hit-and-run that left a Moscow man dead. Investigators have been working for more than a week to find out exactly what happened the day Kristian Lee Nelson, 50, was struck and killed in the Corner Club parking lot. ... Allison Munch-Rotolo wants to make historic preservation a top priority in Pullman. The College Hill Association chairwoman said the city has many historical places that need to be recognized as important to the community, such as the Flat Iron Building on the corner of Grand Avenue and Main Street and a handful of turn-of-the-20th-century homes on College Hill.

1993 25 years ago today

Smooth jazz and starry skies were replaced by the cold steel beams and white ceiling of University of Idaho's Memorial Gym, but it made little difference to the hundreds of concert-goers attending the final two days of Moscow's Rendezvous in the Park. ... At least one Potlatch juvenile ended up in the hospital Saturday night after a 'near riot' situation involving hundreds of people erupted near the Wagon Wheel Bar, Latah County Sheriff's Lt. Vern Moses said. Idaho State Police officers and at least 10 deputies used pepper mace and other crowd control measures to subdue the crowd of mostly juveniles.