Briefs

• U.S 95 project wrapping up

COEUR d'ALENE - Final alignment of traffic lanes along U.S. 95 from Athol to Granite Hill began on Tuesday afternoon, the Idaho Transportation Department announced.

The traffic switch re-aligns southbound traffic into southbound lanes and northbound traffic into northbound lanes as part of the final construction of the four-lane divided highway.

Scarsella Brothers of Kent, Wash., is the contractor on the $21 million project.

• Homeowners wake to find horse in pool

STAR (AP) - A southwestern Idaho man found his horse had fallen into the family pool.

The Ada County Sheriff's Office saod deputies responded to a home in Star at 1:30 a.m. The homeowners told deputies they heard a loud noise in the backyard and went outside to find their son's 28-year-old horse was in the pool. The animal was uninjured.