A former school teacher in Burley was sentenced yesterday to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to felony sex abuse of a minor child under 16 years of age.
A federal judge has agreed to step down from a potential class-action lawsuit over conditions at an Idaho prison at the request of its operator, Corrections Corp. of America. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill has been handling the lawsuit brought by inmates at the Idaho Correctional Center...
A federal judge dealt another setback to the J.R. Simplot Co. and other ranchers by reaffirming his late-February decision to halt grazing on 17 Bureau of Land Management allotments covering some 450,000 acres in southern Idaho.
Twin Falls County will have a new magistrate judge soon. Former Minidoka County Prosecutor Nicole Cannon will be sworn in at a ceremony on March 11 in the Twin Falls County judicial building. Cannon will join Magistrate Judges Tom Kershaw and Roger Harris...