A charge of second degree murder has been dropped against a Burley man after a judge ruled there is not enough evidence in the case to convict. 24 year old Michael Thompson was arrested in December after a passenger in his pickup, 21 year old Michael Blair of Burley was found shot to death in Thompson’s pickup.
A former Burley junior high teacher who posed as a 15-year-old boy in order to engage in sexually charged Internet conversations with a female student is out of hail on probation. The Times-News reports Michael Scott Brinkerhoff left the Cassia County Courthouse Tuesday after serving served 215 days in custody. The 43 year old will
Efforts to build a new airport in Burley have been thwarted for the time being by impassioned landowners concerned over four proposed sites. At a standing room only meeting yesterday the airport site-selection committee voted to back away from the four proposed sites and essentially start over again.
(AP) Investigators are suspecting arson as the cause of a fire that destroyed about half of an old potato processing plant in Burley. Cassia County Sheriff Randy Kidd says investigators are interviewing suspects related to a blaze that started late Friday night at the building now owned by High Desert Milk
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. The sheriff's report says it appears Armstrong was walkin
