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Idaho Lab Helping NASA with Rover Project
A piece of Idaho will be roaming mars when NASA’s rover lands on the red planet next month. Scientists at the INL in Eastern Idaho are busy developing the battery to power NASA's rover, dubbed Curiosity.
Program director Steve Johnson says the 4 foot long battery is made up of modules which the lab has been producing...
U of I Professor Threatened To Shoot Students
A University of Idaho professor who killed a graduate student he had dated and then committed suicide in August had talked about shooting students in his classroom during the fall of 2010. (The Associated Press and other media outlets received personnel records, emails and thousands of other documents related to Ernesto Bustamante on Thursday...
University of Idaho Releases More Details On Professor Who Killed Student
A niversity of Idaho professor who gunned down a graduate student he had dated, then took his own life, had disclosed his bipolar disorder when he was hired in 2007.
University President Duane Nellis held a press conference Wednesday to discuss 31-year-old Ernesto Bustamante...
Idaho GOP To Hold First Ever Presidential Straw Poll
Idaho's Republican Party has scheduled its first-ever presidential straw poll in hopes of luring the top GOP contenders to the state. Idaho Republican Party Executive Director Jonathan Parker says the event scheduled Jan. 6 in Boise is non-binding...
Idaho Low-Income Students To Get Help From Federal Grant
Idaho has been awarded a $23 million federal grant to help low-income students attend college as part of the U.S. Department of Education's "Gear Up" program. The state Department of Education says the money will be used to serve about 6,000 students across Idaho, targeting middle schools where at least 50 percent of the pupil population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunches...
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Twin Falls County Going To Court Over Redistricting Plan
Twin Falls County is expected to file a legal challenge contesting the redrawing of Idaho's political boundaries. County Prosecutor Grant Loebs told the Times-News on Tuesday that local government officials plan to file a challenge with the Idaho Supreme Court over the redistricting maps drawn up earlier this month...
Twin Falls GOP this week
This week Steve Millington with the Twin Falls County Republicans talks about a plan from the White House to help home owners, an Idaho congressman copies a democrat's bill, and the GOP's Job creation bill.
You can hear Steve Millington ever Tueesday morning from 8:30-9:00 on Top Story with Kelly Klaas and Jill Skeem...
UPDATE: Foul Play Not A Factor In Shoshone Man’s Death
The Gooding County sheriff says that foul play has been ruled out in the death of a Shoshone man whose body was found on Friday. The body of 25 year old Juan Carlos Perez-Garcia was found Friday morning in Gooding County. Sheriff Shaun Gough says they believe foul play was not involved and are waiting for a toxicoligy report before determining the cause of the death...
Authorities Suspect Arson in Burley Fire
Arson is suspected in fire at an old potato processing plant in Burley. The call to the fire department came in at around11:40 Friday night. The building on Main Street in burley is almost a total loss. Investigators believe the fire had been burning for several hours before fire fighters arrive...
UPDATE: Body Found In Gooding County; Vehicle found.
The Gooding County Sheriff's Office says the body of a Shoshone man was discovered Friday morning in Gooding county. The body of 25–year–old Juan Carlos Perez–Garcia was found at 1500 East and 2100 South at around 10 a.m. Authorities say so far they don't have a cause of death
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State Board of Education Rejects Removal Of Charter School Cap
The state Board of Education has rejected proposed 2012 legislation to eliminate Idaho's cap on charter schools. The board voted Thursday during a meeting in northern Idaho on a list of proposed legislation for next year, including a measure to eliminate a provision in state law that limits the number of new charter schools to six a year...
Prosecutor: No Charges in Shooting of Two-Year-Old
A southern Idaho prosecutor won't file criminal charges in the case of a 2-year-old boy who was shot and killed by his 3-year-old brother last week. Brandon Herrera died early last Thursday morning at a Boise hospital after being shot in the forehead with a ...
Idaho Death Row Inmate Given Execution Date
A 7th District Judge has scheduled death row inmate Paul Ezra Rhoades to be executed next month. Rhoades, who was convicted of killing three people in Idaho Falls and Blackfoot in 1988, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on November 18th...
Twin Falls Police Searching For Man Who Tried To Abduct Teen Girl
Police say the girl was walking in the 1500 Block of 4th Avenue East at around 9:30 Tuesday night when she noticed a white male walking toward her. The male swayed closer to her, reached out and grabbed her by the wrist. The female ran off, jumped a fence and hid under a car in the back yard of a residence...
Another U Of I Student Falls Out Of Window
Police say a teenager was hospitalized with internal chest injuries after falling from a fire escape at a fraternity house on the University of Idaho campus. Moscow Police Chief David Duke says the 19-year-old was climbing a fire escape ladder at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house on Saturday when he slipped and fell 15 to 25 feet...
Otter’s Cheif Of Staff Resigns To take Lobbying Position
Jason Kreizenbeck, Governor "Butch" Otter's chief of staff since 2007, has announced that he is leaving the two-term Republican's administration to form a government affairs business with a longtime Idaho lobbyist. The Idaho Statesman reports that The 39 year old announced his decision Monday to leave the post in an email sent to Otter's staff and top government agency officials...
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Twin Falls GOP This Week
This week Steve Millington with the Twin Falls County Republicans talks about the new district map, Norm Semanko and the Water Users association, and an scrupulous tie?
You can hear Steve Millington ever Tueesday morning from 8:30-9:00 on Top Story with Kelly Klaas and Jill Skeem...
Another Idaho Youth Dies In Gun Accident
The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office says a 7-year-old Coeur d'Alene boy has died in an accidental shooting at the end of a family hunting trip in northern Idaho. Officials say 36-year-old Robert Bartlett of St. Maries was putting a rifle in a vehicle Saturday when it discharged, striking Connor Bartlett...
Wolf Advocates Seeking Halt Hunts
Wildlife advocates are seeking an emergency injunction to stop state-sponsored wolf hunts in the Northern Rockies that have claimed at least 71 of the animals since late August. Court papers to halt the hunts in Idaho and Montana were filed Monday with the 9th U...
Rex Rammell Cited For Illegal Hunting
Former Idaho gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell has been cited for hunting despite losing his hunting privileges for two years after a July conviction for unlawfully killing an elk. The Lewiston Tribune reports Rammell was cited for purchasing a hunting tag, permit or license while his regular hunting license had been revoked...