Local Briefs October 30, 2010

Two Coeur d'Alene businessesn burglarized

COEUR d'ALENE - Two businesses were burglarized late Tuesday or early Wednesday in Coeur d'Alene.

A business owner in the 400 block of Coeur d'Alene Avenue told police someone broke into his office by prying open the front door and took about $2,000 in money and equipment, and did about $500 in damage.

Missing items included a flat screen monitor, cash and checks, a credit card carbon copy machine and an iPod.

A business in the 1800 block of Lincoln Way reported at 6:40 a.m. Wednesday that someone broke the front door glass and entered the office.

"After emptying the safe, the back door was used as an exit," the report said.

Investigations continue.

Attorney to take election complaints Tuesday

COEUR d'ALENE - Assistant U.S. Attorney Nancy Cook will be on duty on Tuesday to take complaints of election fraud or voting rights violations in North Idaho.

She can be reached at 667-6568.

The FBI will also have agents available in its Boise office to handle complaints of election fraud, intimidation, suppression and other election abuses. The FBI can be reached at (208) 344-7843.

The Ballot Access and Voting Integrity Initiative within the U.S. Department of Justice is designed to make voting easier and cheating more difficult by increasing the department's ability both to deter election fraud and discrimination at the polls and to prosecute those offenses wherever they occur.

Complaints about ballot access or discrimination can also be made directly to the Civil Rights Division's Voting Section at (800) 253-3931.