A U.S. District Court has fined a Wyoming businessman about $50,000 for damages caused by illegally bulldozing U.S. Forest Service land. KTWO-AM reported Richard Bonander pleaded guilty last week to occupancy and use by building roads, trails and causing significant surface disturbance in the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest from July 2018 to November 2018. Chief
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Utah health officials say the number of cases of lung damage linked to vaping is up to 76, with 14 more potential cases being investigated. The state Department of Health announced the new tally Monday, a rise in the 71 cases reported earlier. Officials said unregulated vaping products containing marijuana’s high-inducing ingredient, THC, are likely
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Idaho wildlife officials are investigating after someone shot a bull elk and then left it to waste near Orofino. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game says a local landowner reported hearing a gun shot on Oct. 1, and then found a wounded bull elk in a nearby field early the next morning. It wasn’t
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An Orem man has been charged with rape and child abuse after authorities say he repeatedly sexually abused three young children and drugged their food. The Daily Herald reports 34-year-old Adam Jay Moore was charged on September 25 with rape, several counts of sexual abuse, child abuse and related crimes. Court documents state Moore sexually
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Police have identified an Idaho man who was killed when his powered parachute crashed in southern Utah. Authorities say 68-year-old Rodney Pridmore died when his aircraft crashed Saturday at the San Rafael Swell, a geological formation west of Green River. Police say Pridmore was one of five men who used powered parachutes to travel from
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Police in southwestern Idaho say a 41-year-old woman missing since late September has been found dead in rural Washington County. The Fruitland Police Department says a hunter found the vehicle driven by Sarah Stepp in a rural area on Saturday afternoon, and search and rescue crews found her body a couple of hours later. Police
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A southern Idaho jail built to hold 194 is currently housing about 279 inmates, some crowded into an old trailer, others forced to sleep in plastic boat-shaped containers lining the walls. The Times-News reports officials in Twin Falls County will ask voters in November to approve a $25 million bond to add modular units with
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A jury has found a 44-year-old former Idaho high school principal not guilty of sexual battery against a female coworker. Former Fruitland High School Principal Mike Fitch was charged earlier this year with misdemeanor sexual battery and patronizing a prostitute. Court documents say the woman said Fitch sent erotic videos and photos and propositioned her
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Utah has announced plans to restore the state’s bighorn sheep population a year after a respiratory illness outbreak killed more than 100 sheep. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources unveiled plans Thursday to release 35 sheep on Antelope Island in January with the goal of increasing the island’s sheep population to 125. Wildlife biologist Jace
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Wyoming authorities have located a hunter from Kansas after he was lost for days in the Bighorn Mountains. The Billings Gazette reported Thursday 61-year-old Rudy Miller was reported missing Monday after splitting from his hunting group and not returning. The Sheridan County sheriff’s office says searchers from multiple state and county agencies found the man
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A former high school teacher and coach for Eagle High School has been charged with rape, sexual battery of a minor and other crimes after prosecutors say he sexually abused a teen girl. Jeff Lewis Ranstrom made his first appearance in court on Thursday, and has not yet entered a plea. Court records do not
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Idaho authorities have charged a Boise woman with felony aggravated DUI after a two-vehicle car crash left a 3-year-old girl dead. The Boise Police Department booked 53-year-old Anna Mihelich into the Ada County Jail on Tuesday after a months-long investigation. Police say Mihelich was driving south of Diamond Street near the Boise Airport when she
Continue Reading Federal officials plan to roundup nearly all the wild horses in a south-central Idaho wild horse area so the population can be brought down and maintained at about 50 horses. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management said Tuesday it has approved an environmental analysis that includes using fertility control on 25 female horses that would
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Retail giant Under Armour has sued a family business in a trademark dispute over its name Cascade Armory. The Idaho Press-Tribune reported Monday business owners Alex Short and his wife Diana received a cease-and-desist letter ahead of plans to open a retail front in Boise, Idaho. The Shorts say they officially formed their business in
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Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk, is now facing seven charges related to Kirk’s murder. The State of Utah will be seeking the death penalty, Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray confirmed this morning.
Gray said Tuesday that the decision to pursue capital punishment was made independently based on the “available evidence and circumstances and nature of the crime.” The charges filed against Robinson, which were detailed in a press conference and court documents, include aggravated murder, a capital offense.
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Lori Vallow Daybell has been found guilty of conspiring with her brother, Alex Cox, to attempt the murder of her niece’s ex-husband, Brandon Boudreaux. The verdict was delivered by a jury after less than a day of deliberations, putting an end to a brief yet at times dramatic trial.
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