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TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — A Twin Falls chiropractor was sentenced to four months in jail after pleading guilty to five counts of sexual exploitation by a medical care provider.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal court is blocking implementation of a regulation that would make an estimated 4 million more higher-earning workers eligible for overtime pay.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge has declared invalid the U.S. Forest Service's approval of a gold mining company's plan to reopen a 4-mile road in a central Idaho wilderness and drill core samples to find out if two of its claims are profitable enough to be mined.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson are requesting to weigh in on a class-action lawsuit against Idaho's public defense system.

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday on whether tribal convictions for domestic violence can count as previous convictions under federal law if the defendant didn't have an attorney in the tribal court cases.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Bonneville County's mental health court is one of four chosen as training sites for a national program.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — South-central Idaho is getting a Veterans Treatment Court to help handle a growing docket of trauma, substance abuse and mental health cases involving former service members.

BOSTON (AP) — More than 30 states have filed briefs asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on same-sex marriage.

CALDWELL, Idaho (AP) — Members of a southwestern Idaho jury decided they couldn't come to a unanimous decision on whether former Canyon County prosecutor John Bujak misused public funds. Jurors on Thursday told 3rd District Court Judge G...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Romanian national who previously lived in Ketchum has reached a plea agreement on a federal marriage fraud charge. U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson says 31-year-old Ramona Alina Fenesan pleaded guilty Monday to unlawful procurement of citizenship...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says some Idaho abortion laws are likely unconstitutional, including one barring medication-induced abortions. But the judges didn't pass judgment on Idaho's fetal pain law, saying a woman who sued over the law doesn't have standing to challenge it...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Wildlife advocates say they decided not to appeal to the Supreme Court to keep wolves on the endangered list in Idaho and Montana after their arguments were rejected in lower court rulings. Congress ordered the U.S...

(AP) - The Idaho Department of Correction is telling a federal judge that a scathing report about health care at a Boise-area prison isn't accurate and doesn't reflect current conditions. Attorneys for the state filed their response to the report late last week, saying a court-appointed health care expert didn't do a thorough review at the Idaho State Correctional Institution.

A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit from conservationists that want to block wolf hunts.  Wednesday's ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court Of Appeals says Congress did have authority to intervene when it stropped protections from wolves last spring.

The Idaho Supreme Court has dismissed a bid by state Republican Party Chairman Norm Semanko and House Speaker Lawerence Denney to boot two members from the redistricting commission.

(AP) - A federal judge has set a new court date to hear more evidence about the mental health of a man accused of firing shots at the White House in November. Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez of Idaho appeared Wednesday in a federal court in Washington, where a judge set another hearing for Friday...

A federal appeals court has refused to stop the scheduled execution of Idaho inmate Paul Ezra Rhoades.

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...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court Of Appeals has ordered the death sentence of Joseph Edward Duncan III be reversed until he is given a competency hearing.  Do you think he's competent? VOTE HERE

A forensic expert says there's no evidence that a machine gun carried by an Idaho soldier caused the death of an Afghan civilian in January  2010.