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Kolestani gets 18 years to life
Transgender refugee admitted killing partner last year
A tearful Iranian refugee was sentenced on Friday in Twin Falls 5th District Court to 18 years to life in prison for fatally shooting a long-time partner in the face almost a year ago.

Majid Kolestani, a 42-year-old transgender male who identifies as a woman, had pleaded guilty in June to first-degree murder, in an agreement that laid out the sentence handed down Friday by Judge Randy Stoker.

Kolestani was accused of shooting housemate and fellow Iranian refugee Ehsan Velayati Kababian, 29, on Aug. 25, 2008.
News
If you live in Twin Falls, maybe you've heard the city plans to raise your water rates by 12 percent.

But don't fret if you haven't. You'll eventually notice. The city's got about 15 years of debt to pay off - and rates are expected to increase for at least the next few years.

The Twin Falls City Council last week heard a presentation from staff for the $48.7 million preliminary budget for next year, a 3 percent decline from the current year's budget. Despite the spending drop, residents will be asked to pay more for water as the city meets federal arsenic standards.

• Former nurse sentenced to 6-month program in prescription fraud case

• St. Luke's wants URA help for project

• Murtaugh dairy gets permit to build additional lagoon

• Drowning victim recovered from Little Wood River

• Design for Filer sewer upgrade nears completion

• 5th District Court news

• Around the Valley

• Making the turn: New golf shop expected for city

• Wanted in the Magic Valley


State
Republican Rep. Frank Henderson of Post Falls is recovering from quadruple bypass surgery at the Kootenai Medical Center.

• Sun Valley leaders want train service

• Capitol renovation behind schedule but catching up

• Iranian refugee sentenced to life in prison

• Stalking elusive giant Palouse earthworm

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NASA scrubbed space shuttle Endeavour's scheduled launch Saturday after nine lightning strikes were reported near the pad.

• Thousands seek relatives' graves at Ill. cemetery

• Seemingly indestructible QB's death hard to accept

• Slain ex-QB McNair mourned as a 'hero,' 'legend'

• California's creditors look to options for IOUs

• McNair's hometown not alone in mourning local hero

• Ex-convicts working to prevent future convicts

• Hundreds evacuated from 747 at Phoenix airport

• Dillinger's Ohio crime spree left out of new movie

• Jackson's hometown holds memorial for pop icon


World
President Barack Obama says his trip to Africa at the end of a whirlwind world tour is designed to illustrate that "Africa is not separate from world affairs."

• US military: soldier shot, killed driver in Iraq

• Italian worker freed in Philippines after 6 months

• British foreign secretary defends Afghan mission

• Chavez attacks US plan to solve Honduras coup

• Death toll from China's ethnic riots hits 184

• Report: US 'gesture' could win reporters' release

• Pakistan: Mumbai attacks trial to start next week

• Police, ultra-Orthodox Jews scuffle in Jerusalem

• Mass funeral for Srebrenica massacre victims



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