64 / 44 STATE SPORTS PREVIEWS SEE FOOD 1 All you need to know about this week’s high school hrimp spring sports state tourneys avvyfrom the Partly cloudy. SEE SPORTS 1 eafood chef Business 4 HOW FAR HAVE WE FALLEN? >>> Economists look back at unemploymentS and housing data, BUSINESS 1 WEDNESDAY 75 CENTS May 13, 2009 MagicValley.com Social As Blue Lakes gets rebuilt, North College Security, Lane change receives makeover Medicare By Jared S. Hopkins Times-News writer fading in Hoping to relieve con- gestion, the city of Twin Graphic by SANDY SALAS/Times-News Falls began Tuesday per- recession manently reworking the • North College Road between Fillmore Street and Blue Lakes Boulevard North will expand to four lanes intersection of North By Stephen Ohlemacher College Road and Fillmore • There will be improved turn bays at the intersection, without expanding the road Associated Press writer Street. The roadwork includes WASHINGTON — Social expanding North College Security and Medicare are Road between Fillmore fading even faster under the Street and Blue Lakes weight of the recession, Boulevard North to four heading for insolvency years lanes, a move city officials sooner than previously hope will reduce conges- expected, the government tion not only from current warned Tuesday. nearby roadwork on Blue Medicare already is pay- Lakes but also once that ing out more money than it project is complete. receives, something that There will also be happened for the first time improved turn bays at the last year. And Social intersection. The road will Security will be by 2016, a not expand, however. year sooner than had been The roadwork to remove projected, the trustees’ and restripe traffic lines annual report said. will take several days, said Unless changes in Social Dean Littler, the city’s Security are enacted, the street supervisor. retirement fund will be The sudden announce- depleted in 2037, four years ment from the city came sooner than projected last Tuesday afternoon. The year. The Medicare trust state asked the city to con- fund is in even worse shape. sider some changes It is projected to become because local businesses insolvent in 2017, two years expressed concerns over earlier than expected. congestion on Fillmore More immediately, the Street as a result of the MEAGAN THOMPSON/Times-News trustees do not expect Blue Lakes Boulevard Construction workers strip the lines off the pavement Tuesday afternoon along North College Road in preparation for paint. Crews are working Social Security recipients to Construction, said Idaho get cost-of-living increases Transportation Depart- to provide four lanes of traffic flow as increased traffic is expected during construction on Blue Lakes Boulevard in Twin Falls. ment Spokesman Nathan See SOCIAL, Main 2 Jerke. ITD proposed said Mike Sullivan, the The idea of having four completion scheduled for didn’t know how the city improved turning lanes or city’s traffic technician. lanes is to improve traffic the end of October. chose to relieve the con- stop signs. “Of course, then the flow on Fillmore Street, Jerke said last month no gestion or about the four- The city said creating construction started and clogged since construction major official alternate lane idea. four lanes was actually we started getting the work on Blue Lakes route was designated and Cemetery part of its long-term plan, complaints,”Sullivan said. Boulevard North began ITD chose to work with Jared S. Hopkins may be but it wasn’t needed at the “We thought, ‘Well, May 7. The work on Blue local businesses that reached at jhopkins@ time when a city engineer maybe this will be the time Lakes is its first major might face congestion magicvalley.com or 208- cleanup suggested it a while back, to incorporate that.’” overhaul in decades, with issues. He said Tuesday he 735-3204. critics go Kolestani can dress as woman, judge rules to council By Andrea Jackson ing another Iranian refugee Prosecutors in court fil- Times-News writer Ehsan Velayati Kababian, Magicvalley.com ings have described media Scouts no longer 29. WATCH: A video of Majid Kolestani and the man coverage as “accurate” and An Iranian refugee who Kababian was shot and Kolestani is accused of killing, Ehsan Velayati Kababian. “non-inflammatory.” interested in was born male but chooses killed in his car near the In asking again for a to be identified as a apartment the two change of venue, Public rehab project woman will be shared on Fifth must “comply with the But Stoker on Tuesday Defender Marilyn Paul allowed to wear Avenue East. Courthouse dress code and denied the change of venue “strangely ... included By Nate Poppino lady’s apparel dur- Prosecutors did must be such as to comply motion. blogs and articles from Times-News writer ing next month’s not have a problem with any requirements of “The fact that there has national gay, lesbian and murder trial in with Kolestani’s court security,” according been ongoing publicity transgender Web publica- The Twin Falls County Twin Falls 5th May 1 request to to court papers filed since the time of the court’s tions,” Twin Falls County Sheriff’s Office is continu- District Court. wear “street cloth- Tuesday. original ruling on this issue Prosecutor Grant Loebs ing to look into alleged des- Majid Kolestani, Kolestani ing appropriate for Also this week, does not separate it from wrote in court papers. “It is ecration of a cemetery south 42, who also uses a female, including Kolestani’s public defend- many other first-degree hard to see how these argue of Murtaugh, as critics of a the first name Nastaran, is female upper body under- ers tried a second time to murder cases in this com- for a change of venue.” late-April cleanup at the site jailed without bond in garments” during court move the June 25 trial to munity where the court has prepare to take their com- Twin Falls County and hearings. another venue because of been able to empanel a fair Andrea Jackson may be plaints to the full Murtaugh charged with first-degree Judge Randy Stoker ruled “continuing pretrial pub- and impartial jury,” Stoker reached at ajackson@mag- City Council tonight. murder for allegedly slay- Kolestani’s court clothes licity.” said in court papers. icvalley.com. The Artesian City Cemetery sits bounded by farmland roughly two miles south of Murtaugh Lake, and is owned by the town. Mayor Dee Hunsaker asked Utah man accused of getting minors intoxicated farmer Darrell Funk, who owns land next to the ceme- tery site, to help clean up the Two 14-year-old girls returned to Utah parents after Twin Falls traffic stop overgrown cemetery ahead of rehabilitation work By Andrea Jackson Saturday night after possession of a “The left-side backseat passenger told police Hunsaker expected a Boy Times-News writer he was stopped for stolen vehicle, passenger seemed to be Camacho is his uncle from Scout troop to volunteer for. allegedly speeding according to court passed out and started to West Valley City, Utah, and Workers bulldozed weeds A Utah man with alleged along 1400 East records. vomit on her and the floor had given authorities a false and removed trees, and connections to a Mexican Road in Twin Falls Idaho State Police when I opened the door,” a name. The teenage boy also locals familiar with the drug cartel and a criminal County. say in court records state trooper wrote in court told police Camacho had sex cemetery criticized the gang is lodged in the Twin A list of charges that they found records. with both girls in West Falls County Jail after police against him were Camacho in a stolen State police assert in Valley City at a family mem- See CEMETERY, Main 2 found him in a car with two filed Monday in Camacho Toyota Yaris with court records that Camacho ber’s house, and struck one highly intoxicated 14-year- Twin Falls 5th two underage girls told them he gave the of them “for no reason” and old girls and his 16-year-old District Court: DUI, driving and his nephew. Authorities minors alcohol. Police say in told her “she was a member TAKE PART nephew, according to court without privileges, dispens- said they smelled alcohol in court records that one of the of the Crown Latin Kings to The Murtaugh City Council will records. ing alcohol to a minor, open the car and saw open beer girls had “a split lip with get her to stop crying,” meet at 7 tonight at City Hall, Jose G. Ramirez- container, battery, provid- bottles, according to court blood on her teeth.” 104 Fourth St. Camacho, 33, was arrested ing false information, and records. The 16-year-old male See MINORS, Main 2 Comics................Business 3 Dear Abby ........Classifieds 7 Obituaries ..................Main 7 Commodities ......Business 2 Horoscope ......Classifieds 7 Opinion ......................Main 8 TALK OF ICE ON WINGS, THEN A SCREAM AND CRASH Crossword ......Classifieds 6 Movies ......................Main 9 Sudoku ............Classifieds 9 NTSB hearing on flight that killed 49 > Main 5 MORNINGMORNINGMain 2 Wednesday, May 13, 2009 BRIEFINGBRIEF- TN Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho Pat’s Picks TODAY’S HAPPENINGS Three things to do today CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS Fit and Fall Proof Exercise Class, 10 to 11 a.m., Blaine County Senior Connection, 721 Pat Marcantonio Cassia County 4-H New Leaders Training, S. Third Ave., Hailey, no cost, 737-5988. 10 a.m., Cassia County Extension Office, 1013 Fit and Fall Proof Exercise Class, 10:30 to 11:30 • As seen on TV,a this sounds cool. W. 16th St., Burley, 878-9461. a.m., Ageless Senior Citizens, Inc., 310 Main National Guard Patriot “Archaeology of America’s Burley Kiwanis Club, noon, Morey’s St.