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Bureau of Land Management is trying to identify grave sites at the Warm Springs Cemetery near Oakley Idaho. The burial ground is known to people who live in the area, but BLM officials didn't know about it until a wildfire came very close to it in 2012

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The wife of the president of the Mormon church has died.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said in a statement on its web site that Frances B. Monson died at 6:35 a

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The warden of the privately-run Idaho Correctional Center has quit, one month after his company acknowledged falsifying staffing records for much of 2012. Timothy Wengler, who works for Corrections Corporation of America, lasted three years as warden of the prison south of Boise

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho man convicted of breaking into a Boise zoo and brutally beating to death a Patas monkey will spend up to a year in state prison, where he'll take part in a treatment program

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal authorities in Idaho say they have arrested an Uzbekistan national on federal terrorism charges. Prosecutors say 30-year-old Fazliddin Kurbanov was arrested in Boise on Thursday, one day after a grand jury issued a three-count indictment as part of a terrorism investigation

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EMMETT, Idaho (AP) — The Gem County Prosecutor has filed criminal charges against two men accused of intentionally setting fire to a pair of Emmett churches last month. One of the suspects charged Wednesday was convicted of killing his adoptive parents in 1989

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MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — A 38-year-old northern Idaho woman who police say doused her husband with gasoline and stabbed him in the face has been charged with felony domestic battery in the presence of a child

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NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Canyon County Commissioners in southwest Idaho say they will not use local law resources to enforce on-water regulations that might be enacted by federal authorities on Lake Lowell at the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge

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WEST VALLEY, Utah (AP) — A West Valley City woman has been cited for reckless endangerment after her 9-year-old boy rode his bike alone along the freeway in the middle of the night. A concerned citizen spotted the boy and picked him up along I-215 about 11:30 p

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A conservation group is asking the National Park Service to rule that an area between Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks should be off-limits to wolf hunting. The National Parks Conservation Association on Wednesday filed a petition with the National Park Service asking it to start a formal rulemaking process

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