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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 …
Idaho mulls oil and gas regulator
BOISE (AP) - Idaho may set up a new board to oversee its nascent oil and natural gas industry, a bid to put more-knowledgeable people with fewer conflicts of interest in charge.
Grassroots campaign
BOISE - When Jimmy Farris first came back to Idaho to run for Congress, he was best known for his career as a professional football player.
Ysursa lawsuit back in court
BOISE - A lawsuit to force a group touting public schools chief Tom Luna's education overhaul to reveal its still-secret financiers was returned to state court after Secretary of State Ben Ysursa argued a ploy to m…
Lawyer: Send Idaho disclosure case to fed court
BOISE (AP) - A group seeking to avoid being forced to reveal donors whose $200,000 financed TV ads promoting public schools chief Tom Luna's education overhaul filed a request Thursday to move the case to federal c…
Northwest briefs October 26, 2012
Elderly couple hurt in stabbing-shooting case
Defense: Man charged in triple murder not a killer
BOISE (AP) - A man charged with murdering his girlfriend and her two young sons fled from Idaho in 2002 but is not a killer, his attorney said at the start of his trial.
Nampa woman sentenced after child nearly drowns
Both sides rest in drugstore shooting trial
BOISE (AP) - The prosecution and defense have rested in the trial of a Meridian man charged with shooting his wife's lover to death during an argument in a drug store parking lot.
Idaho awards school laptop contracts to H-P
Oregon man pleads guilty to video voyeurism in Twin Falls
TWIN FALLS (AP) - An Oregon man has pleaded guilty to video voyeurism in Idaho.
Otter wants answers about power line decision
Latah County commission OKs outdoor firing range
Pro-Luna Laws group won't disclose donors
BOISE - A group promoting Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna's education overhaul refused Friday to disclose its donors, instead suggesting it be allowed to take back its money.
Potato cellar burns
IDAHO FALLS (AP) - A fire started by workers burning weeds north of Idaho Falls spread to a nearby potato cellar, destroying it and 11,000 sacks of potatoes inside.
Former Idaho couple faces prison in housing fraud
BOISE (AP) - A former Idaho couple embroiled in their family's scheme to buy and quickly sell homes at the height of the U.S. housing bubble has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and face up to 20 years behind bars.