Idaho Briefs

• Bike lanes cause friction

BOISE (AP) - The Boise City Council and Ada County Highway District are in a street fight.

Boise City Council President Maryanne Jordan blasted ACHD Director Bruce Wong in a letter after the district on Wednesday scrapped a monthlong experiment with bike lanes in the city.

Jordan says in the letter obtained by the Idaho Statesman that Wong's comments about convening a study group to find a solution to see "what demon emerges" means he isn't sincere about creating bike lanes in the city.

City council members say bike lanes are needed to make the city more livable as well as safer for cyclists and pedestrians.

But commissioners make decisions about city streets and say it's important to keep vehicle traffic flowing.

Crews are scheduled to start removing the bike lanes this weekend.

• Former teacher sentenced for child porn

LEWISTON (AP) - A former agricultural education instructor at a North Idaho high school has been sentenced to six months in jail followed by seven years of probation for possessing child pornography.

Tyler M. Mink, 28, was sentenced Wednesday in 2nd District Court. Judge Jeff M. Brudie in March found Mink guilty of 10 felony counts of possessing child pornography. Brudie on Wednesday suspended three-year prison terms for each count.

Mink resigned from Culdesac High School in January 2013 after police obtained a search warrant and found hundreds of files with child pornography. The Idaho Bureau of Probation and Parole will decide if Mink can possess electronic devices that could access the internet.