Idaho GOP leader has no permit for concealed weapon used in charge

BOISE - A state Republican Party leader charged in 4th District Court with assault with a deadly weapon doesn't have a permit issued in Idaho to carry a concealed weapon.

Challis McAffee, 33, an Idaho Republican Party Central Committee member and District 16 chairman, was arrested Tuesday.

Robert Lutes told police in Meridian, Idaho, that McAffee retrieved a .357 magnum revolver from the passenger side of his car where it had been concealed beneath a cloth.

McAffee, who at the time of the altercation was working for Wells Fargo & Co. documenting homes where mortgages are delinquent, pointed the gun at Lutes, according to Lutes' account.

McAffee doesn't have a license in Idaho to carry a concealed weapon, Ada County Sheriff's spokeswoman Andrea Dearden said Friday.

McAffee was released from jail Thursday after posting a portion of his $50,000 bond.

Washington congressman

Baird reports death threat

VANCOUVER, Wash. - Rep. Brian Baird has reported a death threat.

Baird's district director, Kelly Love, said someone left a phone message at Baird's office in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 10, saying, "You think Timothy McVeigh was bad, there is a Ryder Truck out there with your name on it,"

The Washington state Democrat mentioned it Wednesday in a Rotary Club appearance in Vancouver, Wash., in the context of his initial reluctance to hold town hall meetings on health care legislation. Baird said, "If there is a Ryder truck parked out front, it has my name on it."

Clark County Republican Chairman Ryan Hart has criticized Baird for invoking the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995. Baird said he's surprised the GOP would attack him rather than whoever made the threat.

Search and rescue finds body of

pilot in Idaho glider wreckage

MACKAY, Idaho - Searchers said the pilot of a glider that crashed in central Idaho has been found dead.

The pilot, 78-year-old Thierry Thys of Oakland, Calif., was found in the wreckage of his motorglider aircraft on Friday morning.

His plane went missing Wednesday.

A Custer County Search and Rescue team reached the crash site at about 11:21 a.m.

Thys, an experienced pilot who had made many long-distance flights, had been flying a motorized 1998 Stemme S10-VT.

In 2003, Thys and a friend flew in a motorized glider from Carson City, Nev., to the southern tip of South America and back.

During the previous summer, the two flew from Carson City to Point Barrow, Alaska and back.

Human remains found

northeast of Yellow Pine

YELLOW PINE, Idaho - Valley County officials have recovered human remains from an area about 24 miles northeast of Yellow Pine.

Lt. Dan Smith said three men who were hiking last weekend discovered the body. They reported it to the sheriff's office on Monday morning.

On Tuesday, three deputies went to the site on horseback and foot. The body was brought out late Wednesday.

Smith said officers are investigating whether the remains belong to a man who was reported missing in Valley County about three years ago.

Officials are still trying to identify the remains and determine a cause of death.

Dog left in Bainbridge Island car dies

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. - A dog left for a couple of hours in a car on Bainbridge Island was dead when the owner found it.

Bainbridge Island police say a woman called and said she had forgot the dog was in the car with her when she returned home about 11 a.m. Thursday. When she went looking for the dog later, she found it dead.

The Kitsap Sun reports police described the woman as inconsolable over the loss of the female black Labrador named Bear.

Investigators believe the car windows were up at the time. While the outside temperature was in the 70s, the inside temperature could have reached 120.

The Kitsap County Animal Enforcement Office will send its report to the county prosecutor for possible charges.

From wire service reports