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Man charged after driving through school gates
A driver allegedly crashed through two closed crossing gates at Washington Elementary in Sandpoint, prompting new …
Murtaugh schools expand after-school program
Otter won't back plan to raise highway funds
State's food-insecure number highest in nation
Briefs
• Eagle watching cruises begin on Lake Cd'A
Judge: Duncan competent
BOISE - A man convicted of murder and kidnapping in a 2005 attack on a North Idaho family was mentally competent when he waived the right to appeal his death sentence, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Boy dies in school bus crash
KUNA - A school bus collided with a dump truck Thursday morning at a rural Idaho intersection, killing an 11-year-old boy and injuring four other children.
Woman's home, pets stolen
COEUR d'ALENE - When Leah Watson, 24, returned to her home outside Blanchard last week, a day after spending the Thanksgiving holiday with her mother in Coeur …
FBI to investigate shooting on Idaho reservation
POCATELLO (AP) - The FBI is investigating what happened when a Bannock County deputy shot a man on the Fort Hall Reservation after a police chase last week.
Extended jobless benefits to end for 2,500 Idahoans
Idaho workers receiving federally financed extended unemployment benefits will receive their final payment the week ending Dec. 28 under federal legislation that discontinues the program at the end of this year.
He made it up
BOISE (AP) - A 19-year-old Boise man is charged with filing a false police report after Ada County deputies say he reported being assaulted in an effort to gain the sympathy of his former girlfriend.
Search for missing plane resumes
BOISE - More than 60 search and rescue personnel scoured the central Idaho mountains Wednesday for five people, including four family members, who were onboard a plane that disappeared three days earlier.