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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 …
Ward files new financial report on assets
BOISE (AP) - Republican U.S. House hopeful Vaughn Ward on Tuesday released a new U.S. House financial disclosure detailing about $110,000 worth of family assets he hadn't included in a similar report last year.
Idaho scientists find fabled worm
SPOKANE - Two living specimens of the fabled giant Palouse earthworm have been captured for the first time in two decades in what represents a significant discovery of a creature that has achieved a mythic status i…
Mullan Road history presentation Tuesday
POST FALLS - Keith Petersen, who is an author as well as an associate director and state historian with the Idaho State Historical Society, will present the history of John Mullan and the Mullan Military Road at 7 …
Idaho Briefs April 26, 2010
Parking sign saboteurs snared
Idaho Briefs April 25, 2010
Ketchum to annex land at base of Bald Mountain
Death of 'Salmon River Caveman' ends Idaho era
BOISE (AP) - Known as the "Salmon River Caveman," Richard Zimmerman lived an essentially 19th century lifestyle, a digital-age anachronism who never owned a te…
Economy means rough times for some refugees
BOISE (AP) - In his home country of Congo, and for a decade in a refugee camp in Rwanda, Alexis Mpalirwa taught civics and geography.
North Idaho is two-times lucky
SANDPOINT - For the second time in less than a week, North Idaho has sold a "Match 5" winning draw ticket on one of its big draw games.
Highway bond program contract OK'd
LEWISTON - The Idaho Transportation Board on Thursday approved the third contract for management of the state's $880 million highway bonding program.
Idaho enlists skunks, badgers to control pelicans
BOISE - It's badger and skunk versus pelican in the latest round of Idaho wildlife managers' fight to control these big birds that they blame for eating too ma…
Cattle shot, mutilated in Gem County
BOISE (AP) - The Idaho Department of Agriculture is investigating two incidents of cattle shootings in Gem County.
State Briefs April 22, 2010
Gov. Otter released from Boise hospital
Man pleads guilty to stabbing
BOISE (AP) - An Idaho City man has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge for his role in a fatal stabbing outside a Boise bikini bar last fall.
Idaho Briefs April 21, 2010
Man sentenced in animal cruelty case
Police say body found in burned car
TWIN FALLS (AP) - The Twin Falls County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a body was found inside a burned vehicle near the Salmon Dam.