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Lawmakers advance bill to ease statutory rape law

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:51:51 -0700

Sen. Brent Hill, a Rexburg Republican and sponsor of the bill, says the problem with the existing statute is it exposes young men to prison time for engaging in sex that may be consensual.

Ada County man watching texting debate closely

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:54:38 -0700

Idaho Senate passes ban on texting while driving, and Michael Bartley, whose daughter was killed by a distracted driver, hopes the proposal becomes law.

Idaho Senate OKs texting ban

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:55:07 -0700

The chamber voted 29-5 on Wednesday to add texting-while-driving to activities banned under Idaho's inattentive driving statutes. It now goes to the House.

Dead baby found in Oregon state park

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:58:34 -0700

Authorities say an angler discovered the body of a "near full-term baby" at Minam State Park in northeast Oregon.

Idaho police say shooting suspect found dead

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:55:09 -0700

Police said the 35-year-old Moore was a suspect in the shooting and asked law enforcement officers throughout Idaho, Montana and Washington to help find him.

Idaho teacher convicted of sex with student out of jail

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:04:56 -0700

Forty-year-old Anna Bettencourt completed 180 days in a retained jurisdiction program, and Judge John Butler told her Tuesday it appeared she did well while in the program.

Eagle considers making mayor job part time position

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:50:36 -0700

Tuesday night the Eagle City Council acknowledged and accepted Mayor Phil Bandy's resignation. As he gets ready to leave office this week the council is tasked with finding a replacement and deciding whether the post should go back to a part time position.

Idaho releases new guide for Internet safety

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:17:46 -0700

ProtecTeens is being updated after five years to cover new tactics used by online predators to snare teens.

Camera captures 7-Eleven crash that badly injured toddler

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:26:49 -0700

As a 2-year-old girl continues to recover from being pinned by a van that crashed into a 7-Eleven here on Friday, surveillance video just released from inside the store shows the sheer magnitude of the crash.

Police: Man had sexual contact with teen girl while she slept

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:45:26 -0700

Boise Police says on Monday morning a witness told officers that Ildefonso Robledo, 21, had sexual contact the girl, which eventually woke her up. Detectives say they arrested the Boise man based on evidence collected at the scene.

Text helps missing hunter get out of Idaho woods OK

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:18:22 -0700

27-year-old Kooskia resident Scott Rollins found after getting lost in a snow storm Monday night in the Crane Hill area near Kooskia.

Idaho police investigating suspicious death

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:30:32 -0700

Police are looking for a person of interest related to a suspicious death in Idaho Falls.

Wandering mountain goats get Oregon's attention

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:20:34 -0700

Mountain goats from northeast Oregon are wandering all the way to Central Oregon and Washington -- and, in one case, back again -- in a process biologists call "dispersing." Biologists put a radio collar on a goat last week to track its movements.

Man robs Idaho pharmacy, opts to pay for stolen goods

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:11:00 -0700

The Spokesman Review reports that once she gave him the drug, Miller says the robber put some money on the counter and then left the store.

Flasher story raises fears for lost Oregon hiker

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:20:16 -0700

Even with the help of the hiker's dog nothing new turned up Monday in the search for Kate Heuther. Now friends say they hear reports that a man exposed himself on this trail the same day Kate Heuther disappeared.

Idaho universities to lose $32 million next year

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:51:23 -0700

JFAC agrees to slash 12.6 percent in total spending on community colleges and approves a budget that spends $25 million on the schools during the next fiscal year, or about $3.6 million less compared to this year.

LifeLock will pay $12M to settle false claims case

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:46:33 -0700

LifeLock will pay $11 million to the FTC to cover the cost of customer refunds, and another $1 million to the attorneys general of 35 states, the agency said.

Who's Idaho Lottery's newest millionaire?

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:24:53 -0700

Lottery officials say a winning ticket was sold by a vendor in the small town of Irwin, in southeast Idaho and about 12 miles from the Wyoming border. The winning ticket emerged from the drawing Saturday night.

Prosecutors: Former cop has long history of sexually abusing victims

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:42:57 -0700

The Ada County Sheriff's office says Young had sexual contact with four infants. One of the victims, court documents say, was as young as one month old.

Wash. couple returns home, finds family of strangers living inside

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:39:00 -0700

Eric and Ashlie Bogue found themselves locked out of their own house. "I still own this property. They changed the locks on the door. I can't even get into my own house," said Eric Bogue.

'Monster truck' smashes cars in Oregon neighborhood

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:33:06 -0700

After 14 years driving his Ford Probe, Riley Grannan said his car had suffered the usual dings here and there, but nothing like the beating it took early Saturday morning beneath the "feet" of a "monster."

IPTV budget cut, but not as much as Otter wanted

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:28:35 -0700

The House and Senate are expected to give final approval to Tuesday's budget plan.

Nampa Police: Boy's kidnapping case closed due to lack of evidence

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:18:34 -0700

After the boy was found, he told officers that when he got off the school bus in the 200 block of Lake Lowell a white older four-door car pulled up and later took him to a mobile home park.

Lawmaker's plan would put school spending online

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:32:10 -0700

The Athol Republican says his measure would require school districts with 300 or more students to detail spending in downloadable documents available online by the end of 2010.

One of two remaining Idaho missionaries released from Haiti jail

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:04:41 -0700

The Idaho woman was arrested Jan. 29 with nine other Americans while trying to leave Haiti with 33 children without the proper documents. They say they were trying to help orphans after the earthquake.