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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 …
Officials say INL blaze is controlled
BOISE (AP) - Officials say the wildfire that ignited last week and charred 170-square-miles at the Idaho National Laboratory is extinguished.
Charges amended against man after woman dies
TWIN FALLS (AP) - Authorities in southern Idaho say criminal charges of aggravated battery been changed to first-degree murder against a man accused of shooting his girlfriend after the woman died.
FAA denial dooms F-35 hopes
BOISE (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration's denial of a request for expanded training airspace could harm Idaho's chances of landing F-35 Joint Strike Fighter wings, the commander of the Mountain Home Air Fo…
Inmates say problems continue at state facility
BOISE - More than 25 years after a federal judge ordered Idaho to change the way it handled medical care, overcrowding and other issues at the Idaho State Corr…
Idaho next to last in spending per student
COEUR d’ALENE — The US Census Bureau’s most recent Public Education Finances Report shows that Idaho spent less per K-12 student during the 2007-08 school year than nearly every other state.
Body scanners in use at Boise Airport
BOISE (AP) - Transportation Safety Administration officials have started using advanced imaging technology at Boise Airport that allows security officers to look for hidden explosives and other weapons by seeing th…
Large and small
BOISE - Since its startup in 2004, Clearwater Analytics has grown to 115 employees. In the past year alone - through the height of the recession - the Boise co…
Man has 25 snakes in apartment
MALTA (AP) - A southern Idaho man who authorities believe had 25 Western rattlesnakes in his apartment at the Sunset Motel in Malta has been issued two misdemeanor citations by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game.
Sheriff's evidence room a cache of oddities
IDAHO FALLS - The Bonneville County Sheriff's Office has no clear answer as to why there's a Ku Klux Klan robe in the evidence and property room, officers just…
Idaho ends fiscal year $8.2 million short
BOISE - Idaho ended its fiscal year about $8 million in the hole, a shortfall that could have been much worse had state lawmakers not made the cuts they did during the 2010 session, Gov. Butch Otter said.
NIC Foundation's Really BIG Raffle sells out
The North Idaho College Foundation's Really BIG Raffle has sold out for the 17th year in a row. The last of the raffle's 5,000 tickets were sold July 8.
Finding a common thread
TWIN FALLS - Two women sit in a restaurant booth, chatting and eating pie. Only once in a while does each woman glance away from the other's face to look at he…
Conference for people with disabilities is Oct. 21-23
BOISE - Early registration is open until Aug. 1 for Idaho's first statewide conference for and by people with disabilities.
Briefs July 4, 2010
W Idaho fireworks blast injures 3 firefighters
North Idaho man may change plea
LEWISTON (AP) - A North Idaho man named a person of interest in his estranged wife's disappearance has pleaded innocent to unlawful firearms possession in a separate case - but that could change.