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Despite crash, illness, Armstrong's comeback alive

Last updated Monday, September 5, 2011 - 6:45pm

BOISE, Idaho -- It's fitting that Olympic gold medalist Kristin Armstrong's 11-month-old son fell and bonked his head last Friday, just minutes after she learned she had qualified for the U.S. cycling team at the world championship race in Denmark this month.

After all, it's been a season of hard knocks for Armstrong, too.

Injuries from a crash in June in the Nature Valley Grand Prix in Minnesota, coupled with a mystery illness, led to a disappointing third place at the USA Cycling National Championship a week later. But Armstrong's win at a big California time trial in May, coupled with victory in a Colorado stage race last month, convinced coaches she had earned a trip to Europe.

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Renegade outfitter, ex-partner of Karl Malone, faces federal prison

John Miller, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, May 27, 2011 - 2:26pm

BOISE, Idaho -- A renegade Idaho hunting outfitter who once accused an NBA player of bribery is back in the news, this time for operating an unlicensed guiding business and misrepresenting important information in a bankruptcy filing six years ago.

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In this photo taken Friday, May 20, 2011, Zeldon Nelson, the chief executive officer of the National Center for Constitutional Studies, poses in the shipping center located in the basement of his home on his 700-acre family farm just north of the Utah-Idaho border in Malta, Idaho. The Tea Party Patriots national umbrella group is promoting Nelson's center as a constitutional resource for public school children, but some groups including the Washington, D.C.-based Constitutional Accountability Center say using a group that believes the constitution is divinely inspired is "indoctrination, not education." (John Miller/Associated Press)

Tea party targets schools for 'Constitution Week' based on teachings of Skousen

John Miller, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 11:45am

MALTA, Idaho -- America's kids will be learning about the U.S. Constitution this coming school year with help from a decidedly conservative Idaho publishing house, if a tea party group gets its way.

The Tea Party Patriots, Georgia-based but claiming 1,000 chapters nationally, are instructing members to remind teachers that a 2004 federal law requires public schools to teach Constitution lessons every Sept. 17, commemorating the day the document was signed. And they'd like the teachers to use material from the Malta, Idaho-based National Center for Constitutional Studies, which promotes the Constitution as a divinely-inspired document.

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Jesse Tinsley, The Spokesman-Review/The Associated Press
In this Nov. 24, 2010 photo, two mine workers stand inside the Lucky Friday mine in Mullan, Idaho. The roof of the tunnel collapsed on Friday, April 15, 2011, trapping Larry Marek. Officials have not had contact with him and don't know his condition. He is a 30-year mining veteran, 12 of those years have been with Hecla. A remote-control digger has arrived, Monday, April 18, 2011, to help rescue workers advance more quickly, but progress may still be slowed by boulder-sized rocks and time-consuming safety work to shore up tunnels from further collapse.

Idaho rescuers alter search operation for miner

John Miller, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 12:43pm

BOISE, Idaho — Rescuers trying to reach a trapped Idaho silver miner on Tuesday were forced by unstable conditions to alter their operation and are now attempting to reach him from a new direction that more than quadruples the distance they must dig to reach him.

The changes were necessary due to dangerous conditions inside the Lucky Friday Mine, said Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration spokeswoman Amy Louviere. Before, workers needed to clear through about 50 feet of the collapsed area; from the new, safer set-off point more than a mile underground, there are 225 feet left.

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Idaho backs plan for Tamarack skiing this winter

John Miller, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - 4:10pm

BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho gave its blessing Tuesday to a plan for a ski season at Tamarack Resort starting Dec. 20, moving the failed vacation getaway a step closer to firing up lifts for the first time since 2009.

The state Land Board, including Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter, approved a package to keep Tamarack's lease to 2,100 acres of state land alive until next June.

A federal bankruptcy judge still must approve allowing ski lifts, groomers, cash registers, rental skis and other equipment -- all collateral in a $300 million bankruptcy dispute with lenders led by Credit Suisse Group -- to be used for the ski operation.

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In Nevada, the former pastor of Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle has accused incumbent Harry Reid (left), a Mormon, of devoting his political career to advancing the interests of the church. “His allegiance is to Salt Lake City,” Sonrise Church Pastor John Reed has said.

LDS faith key in Nevada, Idaho races

John Miller, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 10:26pm

BOISE -- Mormonism and politics have merged in two western campaigns this month, providing a glimpse of the renewed scrutiny Mitt Romney could face in a 2012 presidential run.

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Mormonism becomes campaign issue in Nevada, Idaho

John Miller, The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 2:03pm

BOISE, Idaho -- Mormonism and politics have merged in two western campaigns this month, providing a glimpse of the renewed scrutiny Mitt Romney could face in a 2012 presidential run.

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(DOUG LINDLEY/The Associated Press) U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, talks to a group of brewers, farmers and concerned citizens about the new tax relief bill for the brewing community in Pocatello, Idaho.

Idaho's LDS small beer-makers push for tax cuts

John Miller, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 7:11pm

BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo might seem like an unlikely person to be pushing a bill to cut federal taxes on small beer-makers: A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he abstains from alcohol.

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Idaho governor: Cut education, public TV, research center

John Miller The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 11, 2010 - 6:11pm

BOISE, Idaho -- Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter aims to balance Idaho's budget by cutting another $40 million from this year's spending by trimming public education and delaying cash for a livestock research center near Twin Falls that was due to get $10 million.

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Puck Naked: Idaho team punished for 'strip hockey'

John Miller The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 9:59pm

BOISE, Idaho -- An Idaho junior hockey team was banished temporarily from a city ice rink after players engaged in a game of "strip hockey" -- shedding a piece of uniform every time a practice shot missed its mark.

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Idaho State Police officers investigate the scene of an accident where a charter bus with students from American Fork High School (Utah) crashed off the side of the road in the southbound lane of I-15 outside McCammon, Idaho on Saturday evening, Oct. 10, 2009. Four buses carrying approximately 200 students were leaving Idaho State University and headed back to Utah when the bus crashed. One adult female chaperone was killed in the accident, twelve people were taken by ambulance to the hospital, and two people were transported by medical helicopter. (AP Photo/Idaho State Journal, Joe Kline)

Police piece together clues from tragic bus crash

John Miller The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 12, 2009 - 7:35am

BOISE, Idaho -- State Police say they are piecing together information to understand just how a bus carrying a Utah high school band veered off a southeastern Idaho interstate, killing a 33-year-old band teacher and injuring dozens of student musicians who hours earlier had swept a competition.

Police identified the person killed in the Saturday wreck as Heather Christensen of Spanish Fork, Utah, a woodwind instructor for the American Fork High School band. All but one of 44 students who received medical care at Portneuf Regional Medical Center in Pocatello following the accident had been released by Sunday.

Hospital officials say the remaining patient, a girl, is due to be released on Monday.

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