The board of commissioners plans on signing a letter on Monday that would ask the Idaho Department of Lands to put a restriction on shooting in that area. “It has become more of shooting unwanted household material with unsafe bullet travel all over the canyon rim,” the letter states. Commissioner Cathy Roemer said it’s not just the danger. She said the land there is a mess.
Authorities in eastern Idaho say a juvenile in the backseat of a vehicle accidentally fired a handgun, shooting himself in the hand and the driver in the back.
Authorities in eastern Idaho say an Idaho State Trooper deploying spike strips opened fire on a stolen vehicle containing two teenage girls because he thought the driver was trying to hit him.
It sounded like fireworks.
At least it did to Jessica Ward. She and her friend were leaving the concert at the Mandalay Bay Casino on Sunday night when she heard the popping.
They looked back and didn’t see fireworks. Then police went passed them holding guns. That was when they knew those weren’t fireworks. Those were gunshots.
“I started to run, got behind a brick wall and we ducked down,” Ward said.
A Nevada sheriff says the death toll has climbed to 50 in the attack on a Las Vegas concert Sunday, making it the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo says more than 200 people were wounded at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival on the Strip.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Idaho Senator Mike Crapo made this statement on the shooting of Congressman Steve Scalise in Virginia this morning:
While this investigation is still unfolding, I send my prayers to Congressman Scalise and the other victims who were injured...