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Idaho Briefs

| August 26, 2014 9:00 PM

• Lineup change for downtown Cd'A concert

A Beatles tribute band scheduled to perform tonight at the Downtown Coeur d'Alene Concert Series has been canceled.

Meet Revolver will not appear, but the show will go on. A rock 'n' roll band, Strictly Business, has been scheduled.

The concert starts at 6 p.m. at Sherman Square Park, 316 Sherman Ave. Bring a lawn chair and your dancing shoes.

• Justice Scalia to speak at Idaho water conference

BOISE (AP) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is the keynote speaker at a conference celebrating Idaho's completion of a 30-year process negotiating water rights.

Monday's event in Boise also featured nationally known water law experts who will talk about the largest ever adjudication project that covers all water in the Snake River Basin, starting from the Yellowstone National Park to the Oregon border and going as high as north-central Idaho's Clearwater County.

The Idaho Supreme Court, the Kempthorne Institute and the University of Idaho College of Law organized the event. Since 1987, water law attorneys have completed more than 100,000 water rights claims. This has allowed thousands of farmers, dairies and fish processors to have a comprehensive record of state, federal and tribal water rights.

• Body in corn field that of missing Nampa woman

NAMPA (AP) - The Canyon County coroner has confirmed the body found buried in a corn field near Melba was that of Nampa homicide victim Selena Dawn Thomas.

The body was found Thursday. Nampa police say the autopsy was completed Friday evening.

Officers began searching in the field Wednesday evening after Thomas' boyfriend reportedly told officers he hit her in the head with a hammer then pushed her and caused her to hit her head on a dresser.