Murder

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KLIX) A Nevada man convicted of first-degree murder during a Twin Falls hotel standoff, assaulted guards and an inmate at an Idaho prison on Thursday.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A 61-year-old man charged in the killing of an 18-year-old Boise woman has been extradited from New York to Idaho.

PRESTON, Idaho (AP) — Police in eastern Idaho say a father shot and killed his three children and then fatally shot himself in his home.

ELKO, Nev. (AP) — A 46-year-old Idaho man accused of murder in Elko County has waived his preliminary hearing and will go to trial in the death of a woman who was decapitated.

GOODING, Idaho (KMVT) - A Gooding man is being charge with second degree murder after allegedly killing another man with a .38 caliber pistol.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) - Twin Falls Police arrested Jose Alvarez, 20, and Gerardo Chavez, 19, for the murder of Canyon Ridge High School student, 15-year-old Vason Widaman, after a drug deal.

KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) — A central Idaho man has been sentenced to prison in the death of a neighbor whose body was discovered in his backyard.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A 39-year-old man accused of strangling his fiancee and burying her beneath their Bonneville county home is being held on $600,000 bond.

MURPHY, Idaho (AP) — Law enforcement officers in southwestern Idaho say a 31-year-old Oregon woman apparently drowned her baby and then killed herself in Owyhee County.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KLIX) Twin Falls Police are investigating a murder/suicide that happened early Saturday morning. They say an individual killed a man before taking his own life. The Twin Falls County Coroner Gene Turley says the deceased are Troy Anderson, 36 and Benjamin Day, 42. Both bodies were taken to Boise for autopsy.

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Detectives in northeast Nevada did not disclose that an apparent homicide victim had been decapitated when they asked for the public's help identifying the victim, whose body was found in a shallow grave in the high desert.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Two inmates at the Twin Falls County Jail are facing charges following the beating of a murder suspect also housed at the jail.

KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) — A central Idaho man accused of second-degree murder has pleaded guilty.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) - An elderly man charged with first-degree murder will receive psychiatric treatment until he’s determined to be competent to stand trial, according to Twin Falls County Prosecuting Attorney Grant Loebs.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) — A Coeur d'Alene man has been accused of murder in connection to the death of his 1-year-old stepson.

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The woman who was shot to death in Spokane Valley on Monday morning had just started a new life in the Inland Northwest after leaving Boise, Idaho, to move in with her brother.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Eastern Idaho authorities say they will seek the death penalty for a man charged with killing his pregnant girlfriend at her cabin near Driggs, Idaho.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — New DNA testing in a 1996 Idaho murder found genetic material belonging to an unknown man but no DNA matching that of the person currently imprisoned for committing the murder.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) – One of two men changed with first degree murder after allegedly killing a man who was selling a car on Craigslist pleaded guilty to three of six counts Wednesday and will likely spend life in prison.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Supreme Court has denied a request for a reduced sentence made by a man found guilty of killing his ex-wife and her boyfriend.