Idaho Briefs

• Bill would let businesses sell electricity for electric cars

BOISE - A new measure backed by Idaho Power Co. would allow business owners to resell public utility electricity to electric car drivers.

The House State Affairs Committee voted Tuesday to introduce a bill permitting companies to buy the electricity from a public utility and then resell it to charge electric car batteries.

Rich Hahn from Idaho Power said current state law prevents reselling electricity provided by a public utility. This means businesses are footing the bill for having electric car charging stations.

Hahn said he hopes opening the door to more charging stations will encourage more people to buy electric cars.

The Idaho Public Utilities Commission would determine specific rules for buying and selling the electricity.

• ATM skimmers found at two eastern Idaho bank branches

POCATELLO - Authorities in the eastern Idaho city of Pocatello say bank card skimmers have been found at two different bank ATMs.

Police reported that the skimmers were attached on Friday, but didn't say the locations.

The skimmers are designed to look like part of the machine and capture information such as PIN numbers.

Police reported if customers spot anything suspicious they should ask a bank manager to check the machine before using it.

The investigation into the two skimmers has been turned over to the FBI.

• Private prison company settles harassment lawsuit

BOISE - A private prison company formerly operating in Idaho has settled a lawsuit with a nurse who contended she was fired for filing a sexual harassment complaint.

The Idaho Statesman reports in a story on Tuesday that Corrections Corporation of America settled the lawsuit Michelle Pierce filed in February 2014.

Terms of the settlement weren't disclosed.

Pierce, a nurse at the Idaho Correctional Center south of Boise, contended that she told a female supervisor she was having difficulty getting officers to accompany her to distribute medication to inmates.

Pierce said in the complaint that the supervisor told her to be more flirtatious and the officers would do whatever she wanted.

The complaint also said an officer blocked her exit from one area and asked to see and touch her breasts.

- Associated Press