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Rupert Two-Year-Old Dies From Gun Shot Wound
A 2-year-old Rupert boy is dead after suffering a gunshot wound to the head. The Times-News reports that the toddler was shot by his 3-year-old brother. Rupert Police Chief Randy White says the shooting happened in northeast Rupert, at about noon Wednesday...
Twin Falls Woman Pleads Not Guilty To Embezzlement Charges
A 57-year-old Twin Falls woman has denied embezzling more than $366,000 from a Boise-based title insurance and escrow company over a period of 10 years. The Times-News reports Marie Watkins faces a Jan. 10 jury trial on a felony grand theft charge...
Twin Falls Police Warn Of Possible Popcorn Scam
Police in Twin Falls are warning residents to be on the look out for two men going door-to-door claiming to be offering free popcorn samples. Officers say the vendors' request to use a homeowner's microwave is likely a ruse so they can case houses prior to burglarizing them...
Feds Say no protection for Northern Leatherside Chub
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that the northern leatherside chub does not warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. It made its finding after a review prompted by a petition from Forest Guardians. The northern leatherside chub is a small desert fish in the minnow family that occurs in northern Utah and Nevada, southern and eastern Idaho, and western Wyoming...
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Rupert Woman Sentenced For Meth Bust
A Rupert woman will serve nine years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. The U.S. Attorney's Office says 42-year-old Leaha Annette Rivera was sentenced yesterday in federal court for conspiring with others to distribute more than 500 grams of the drug between September and December of last year...
Jerome’s City Manager Resigns
Jerome City manager Ben Marchant has resigned. The Times News reports this afternoon that Marchant turned in his resignation to the Jerome city council during a closed door meeting. They accepted his resignation Tuesday night. Merchant was hired for the position in 2008...
FBI Investigating Domestic Terrorism Case In Caldwell
The FBI is getting involved with the investigation of a fire that was started at Rocky Mountain Fireworks and Fur in Caldwell last week. The FBI is working with local law enforcement because of the possibility that domestic terrorists are behind the fire...
EPA Files Lawsuit Against Jerome Cheese Co
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is suing Jerome Cheese Company for allegedly violating the Clean Water Act. In a civil complaint, filed in Boise's U.S. District Court last week, The EPA contends that the Davisco Foods International-owned Jerome Cheese Company in southern Idaho dumped waste water containing pollutants into an irrigation system that eventually flows into the Snake River...
Four Suspects Plead Guilty To Public Land Pot Grow Operations.
Francisco Cardona-Rodriguez pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to manufacture/distribute 1,000 or more marijuana plants during a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy Dale in Boise. Co-defendants Heber Franco-Lombera of Bieber, Calif...
Burley Man Dies In River Accident
Cassia County officials say a Burley man whose body was found along the banks of the Snake River east of Rupert drowned after being knocked unconscious when he hit his head on some rocks. The Times-News reports Kirk Shannon Armstrong was found dead Monday...
Fires Burn in Elmore County
The Bureau of Land Management says roughly 46 square miles has burned in three separate fires in Elmore County. The Grindstone fire burned more than 21,600 acres of grass 15 miles south of Glenns Ferry, and it was nearly completely contained Monday morning...
Occupy Wall Street Hits Idaho
What started as a small movement on Wall Street in New York appears to be spreading. Organizers of Occupy Boise say they hope to make a difference on a local level. The Occupy Wall Street protests are going into their third week, as demonstrations spread to cities like Boston, Melbourne, Montreal and Prague...
Police make arrests in South Hills area
Two men with outstanding warrents have been arrested in the South Hills area. Police say the two men were taken into custody last evening and now face several charges. Arrested were 55-year-old Carlos Paladini, a convicted felon, and 47-year-old Chris Chouinard...
Hagerman Woman Killed in Rollover
A Hagerman woman has died after a one vehicle crash near on 3500 East near 3350 North last night. The Twin Falls County Sheriffs Office says 28 year old Mary Rebekah Melendrez, of Hagerman, was pronounced dead at the scene. A Twin Falls County Deputy discovered the accident while on patrol...
Possible contaminated cantaloupes given out across Southern Idaho
You might want to check you cantaloupe. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare says 43,000 pounds of cantaloupe donated to the public throughout southern Idaho may have been contaminated with listeria. Department spokeswoman Emily Simnitt says that officials learned Thursday the recalled cantaloupe had been distributed in the state in late August...
AARP: Idaho Near Bottom in Affordability and Access to Care for Disabled and Elderly
According to the first ever national study on the issue, the AARP says Idaho gets high marks for providing home and community based services..ranked 8th in the nation. The state is also ranked 6th in the nation of providing support to caregivers, who are often times family members...
New redistrcting panel sets first meetings
The redistricting panel that's trying again to redraw Idaho's electoral boundaries will hold three public hearings next month in its bid to complete work that the previous batch of commissioners failed to get done. The Idaho Statesman reports that here will be public hearings in Idaho Falls on Oct...
Idaho Congressman says he now supports term limits
Freshman Congressman Raul Labrador says after serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and seeing what it’s really like, he’s changed his mind and now supports term limits. Labrador, an opponent of term limits before he was elected to Congress last year told the City Club of Boise on Tuesday that serving in Washington has caused him to change his mind...
Winning Idaho powerball ticket prize goes unclaimed
More than 50 days have passed since an Idaho Lottery-winning Powerball ticket worth $200,000 was sold in Latah County for the Aug. 6 draw. The holder of the ticket remains a mystery. So far no one has officially come forward to claim it...
Idaho ranks in bottom ten when it comes to students going on to college
The U.S. Department of Education released the new report on Monday. It includes state-by-state rankings based on 2009 data in several areas, such as how students perform in math and reading while in public school and how many earn degrees in college...