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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 …
Canyon County releases ex-prosecutor's bank records
CALDWELL (AP) - Canyon County officials have released financial records that they say show former prosecutor John Bujak wrongly spent more than $300,000 of the county's money.
Father of captured soldier seeks Pakistan's help
BOISE - The father of the only U.S. soldier held captive in the Afghan war appealed to the Pakistani military for help in freeing his son in a video posted on YouTube on Friday.
Plummer murder suspects arraigned
Four suspects charged with the April 17 murder of Antowny D. Swiney appeared Monday at the Benewah County Courthouse in St. Maries.
North Idaho flooding possible from snow melt-off
SANDPOINT - Bonner County residents will want to take care if the Panhandle heats up to summer temperatures too quickly.
Experts predict busy fire season
BOISE (AP) - National wildfire experts are predicting a busy and costly fire season this summer in parched states like Texas and Colorado, where hundreds of square miles have been charred in a region struggling wit…
Bank robbery suspect faces additional charges
LEWISTON (AP) - Additional felony charges have been filed against a 69-year-old Clarkston, Wash., man who police said robbed a Lewiston bank and was subsequently shot by police.
More Idaho drunk drivers face felony charges
IDAHO FALLS (AP) - The number of felony prosecutions of drunk drivers in Idaho increased 25 percent in 2010 from the previous year, state officials say.
Inmate who left job captured
BOISE (AP) - The Idaho Department of Correction has located an escaped inmate who had been assigned to a low-security work center.
Gates visits Idaho soldiers in Iraq
BAGHDAD - Many of the positive changes that have taken place in Iraq over the past few years have been a result of the efforts of the service members deployed …
Boise woman arrested after sidewalk spree
BOISE (AP) - Police say a Boise woman who drove along a 100-foot stretch of sidewalk late Saturday was arrested under suspicion of drunken driving.
NEA President urges Idaho teachers to mobilize
BOISE - Idaho teachers were called to action Friday by one of the nation's top education union leaders who told them to turn imminent budget cuts, the loss of …
Restrictions ordered on Hall
BOISE (AP) - A southwest Idaho man charged with first-degree murder but who was released on $1 million bond has been fitted with an electronic monitoring bracelet and been placed under other restrictions.
Cracking down on goose thefts
REXBURG (AP) - Police in the eastern Idaho city of Rexburg plan a crackdown on prank goose thefts from the Rexburg Nature Park.
GOP continues conservative march in 2011
BOISE - From new limits on abortion to rapid-fire salvos targeting Congress' health care reforms, Idaho's conservative Republican-led Legislature shifted further right during the 2011 session - just as voters manda…
Otter signs last part of Luna plan
BOISE (AP) - The governor signed into law Friday the centerpiece of a major education reform plan that shifts money from salaries to fund new technology and teacher merit pay.