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James Tidmarsh
Capital Building Threat Turned out to be Aspirin
The Idaho capital building was evacuated for about three hours yesterday. Authorities say a suspicious white powdery substance found in a letter mailed to the Idaho Attorney General's Office was nothing more than aspirin. The envelope was opened by a state employee and inside there was a white substance and a note...
Community Reacts to Death Of Local Missionary
An LDS Missionary from Fairfield has died after a hit-and-run accident near Donna, Texas. KSL reports that 20 year old Derek Jason Walker and 21-year-old Trevor Reinhold Strong of Utah were killed just after 7:30 p.m. Tuesday while riding their bikes while serving an LDS mission...
INL Workers Exposed to Radiation
Seventeen workers at the Idaho National Laboratory were exposed to radiation during an incident at the eastern Idaho facility yesterday afternoon. Six of them have tested positive for low levels of contamination. The incident was reported at 1 p...
Fatal Accident Near Hansen
One person is dead after a car crash south of Hansen. Twin Falls County Sheriff's Office Spokeswoman Lori Stewart says the accident happened at around 7:30 last night when a car rolled over near Foothills Rd. and Rock Creek Rd. So far the drivers name has not yet been released...
Magic Valley Election 2011 Results
It was a slow but steady turn out for election day 2011 through out the Magic Valley. Voter turn out was at around 20 percent not bad considering two years ago turn out was at around 13 percent. Some towns reported less then 10 voters while others reported larger then expected turn out...
Twin Falls Hit by Vehicle Vandal Spree
Twin Falls Police are on the lookout for whoever caused a large rash of vandalism early Wednesday morning. Police say that at around 1:22 a.m. they began receiving calls regarding windows that had been broken out of parked vehicles. Police say the vandals went to nearly every corner of the city breaking out windows of cars, trucks, campers, and anything else they could damage...
No Clemency for Idaho Death Row Inmate
The Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole says it won't consider a clemency request from condemned inmate Paul Ezra Rhoades.
Rhoades is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Nov. 18 for the murders of Susan Michelbacher and Stacy Baldwin in 1987...
Chobani Plans Sail Through Council
The Twin Falls city council gave Chobani yogurt a thumbs up last night with approval of a rezoning effort. I n order to build the planned plant, the 58 acre plot of land located at the southwest corner of Kimberly Road and 3300 East Road had to go from "commercial" to "heavy manufacturing"...
State Representative Pat Takasugi Dies
The Associated Press reports that State Rep. Patrick Takasugi, a two-term state lawmaker from Wilder, has died at a Boise hospital after a three-year battle with appendix cancer. He was 62.
Takasugi, a Republican, died late Sunday night, his campaign manager Gayle Batt said...
Best Of “American Thinker” this week On Top Story
Kelly Klaas and Jill Skeem have the week off this week, so it's the best of American Thinker with Senior Editor Larrey Anderson all this week from 8:05-10:00 AM. You can hear Larrey live on the Thursday editions of Top Story with Kelly Klaas and Jill Skeem at 9:05...
City Council To Discuss Yogurt Company Tonight
The Twin Falls City Council will kick off tonight’s meeting with a closed-door executive session. According to a city agenda, that’s “To consider and advise its legal representatives in pending litigation or where there is a general public awareness of probable litigation...
Twin Falls Gets Ready For Election Day
Tomorrow is Election Day around the state. In Twin Falls the city council candidates participated in a forum on Saturday evening to help get their message out. The Forum was broadcast live here on news radio 1310, KMVT and the times-news...
Hundreds help to Welcome home 116th
Hundreds of people turned out to help welcome home the members of the 116th on Saturday. The event was held at the at the College of Southern Idaho. There was a special missing man ceremony honoring fallen soldiers Spc. Nathan Beyers and Spc...
Hailey Teens Accused of Raping a 14-Year-old Girl
Police say three teenagers in Hailey have been arrested on felony charges after a 14-year-old girl reported they forced her to have sex with them. The Idaho Mountain Express reports the suspects are students at Wood River High School in Hailey and were taken into custody Friday...
Major Food Brand Company To Build In Twin Falls
A national food company says it plans on building a manufacturing plant in Twin Falls. The company, to be named tomorrow during an announcement that will include economic developers, the Governor and executives, says once the plant is built it will hire about 400 people...
Idaho Employers Ignoring State Reporting Law
Most Idaho employers don't comply with a law requiring them to report new hires to the state Department of Labor within 20 days, making it harder for officials to track things like overpaid unemployment benefits and deadbeat parents who owe child support...
Herman Cain’s Former Spokeswoman Goes To Work For Idaho Congressman
The former spokeswoman for Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has gone to work for U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador. The congressman's office issued a statement Tuesday saying Ellen Carmichael had been hired as the new communications director for Labrador, a Republican who represents Idaho's 1st Congressional District...
Twin Falls GOP This Week
This week Steve Millington with the Twin Falls County Republicans talks Herman Cain's alleged woman problems, Idaho's first straw poll, and the feds sue Phil Hart.
Man Sentenced For Montana Standoff Involving 17-year-old Boy
A 36-year-old man arrested after a six-hour standoff at a Montana hotel where police say he barricaded himself in a bathroom with a 17-year-old boy from Twin Falls County has pleaded guilty to Kidnapping. Mulligan was arrested in December 2010 after Kalispell Police Department SWAT officers stormed the Super 8 Motel where Mulligan had barricaded himself with a 17-year-old boy...
Power Outage Forces Cancellation of Classes at CSI
An early morning power outage on the College of Southern Idaho campus forced the closure of the school for the day. The power went out at around 4:55 this morning. Idaho power says an underground power line is to blame. Power was expected to be restored sometime this afternoon...