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Jockey riding winners at Les Bois after switching from rodeo

Last updated Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 4:40pm

BOISE, Idaho -- Robert Burney has been riding horses almost his entire life, and it finally came to a point where the 25-year-old who grew up in Emmett had to make a big decision.

Rodeo or horse racing.

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Mountain lion roaming Boise shot and killed by police

Patrick Orr The Idaho Statesman

Last updated Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 2:24pm

BOISE -- Boise State University officials say the mountain lion that was seen by campus and Julia Davis Park Monday morning has been shot and killed.

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Boise State AD reaffirms football move to Big East

Brian Murphy The Idaho Statesman

Last updated Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 1:54pm

BOISE, Idaho -- Boise State's conference scramble didn't need any more drama, but the Broncos got some Monday.

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Search on for moutain lion running about Boise

Patrick Orr The Idaho Statesman

Last updated Monday, May 21, 2012 - 4:47pm

BOISE -- Police and Idaho Fish and Game officials are actively looking for a mountain lion that officers saw running by WinCo Foods off Front Street around 4:40 a.m. Monday.

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Idaho power broker could get top Romney job

Dan Popkey The Idaho Statesman

Last updated Sunday, May 20, 2012 - 8:23am

BOISE -- Speculation that Idaho-raised Jack Gerard could land a top spot in a Mitt Romney administration isn’t new.

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TV star cat up for adoption at shelter

Katy Moeller The Idaho Statesman

Last updated Saturday, May 19, 2012 - 7:07am

BOISE -- There’s an orange cat at the Idaho Humane Society that has good chops -- acting chops, according to his resume.

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Brewhaha erupts over Boise beer festival

Patrick Orr The Idaho Statesman

Last updated Friday, May 18, 2012 - 9:35am

BOISE -- For the past three summers, thousands of craft beer enthusiasts have filled Ann Morrison Park to taste samples of the best brew the American West has to offer.

Boise police didn't report any major public safety problems, and Barley Brothers Traveling Beer Festival was considered a gastronomic and financial success -- and deemed a key part of the burgeoning craft beer scene in Idaho's capital.

But that's not the case in 2012. The city is suing festival owner Brewforia Beer Market for $7,886 plus interest, saying the organizers owe about $4,000 for turf damage and garbage cleanup at Ann Morrison and another $3,693 to cover the cost of police protection for last August's festival. Parks and Recreation officials say they don't want the festival back this summer.

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Idaho burglar uses 'tighty whitey' to cover face

Katy Moeller The Idaho Statesman

Last updated Friday, May 18, 2012 - 6:58am

FRUITLAND, Idaho -- Some wear masks. Others hide behind bandanas. One Idaho burglar got creative this week, sporting a pair of underwear on his head.

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Big West will consider adding Broncos' programs

Brian Murphy The Idaho Statesman

Last updated Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 8:24pm

BOISE, Idaho -- Boise State may have found a solution to its Big East problem -- just in time.

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Boise bust exposes how organized credit card scams work

Patrick Orr The Idaho Statesman

Last updated Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 3:39pm

BOISE -- David S. Bonilla and Hugo R. Aguilar Jr. are being held in the Ada County Jail on two counts each of felony burglary after Boise police say they caught the men with dozens of fake credit cards which they used to buy thousands of dollars worth of gift cards and other items from local stores.

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The Professional Bull Riders will recognize the career of Fort Hall's Wiley Petersen

Brian Murphy The Idaho Statesman

Last updated Monday, May 14, 2012 - 3:19pm

NAMPA, Idaho -- As Wiley Petersen's injuries mounted -- first his riding shoulder, then his groin and finally his knee -- his passion for getting back atop an angry bull waned.

"To be a professional bull rider takes a lot of desire, a lot of passion, and you get to a certain point and that excitement and passion for it starts to fade," Petersen said this week. "It's not a job you can fake.

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Groups fight caribou protection in Idaho

Rocky Barker The Idaho Statesman

Last updated Monday, May 14, 2012 - 7:19am

Idaho’s caribou are the mammals most likely to go extinct in the United States, but some state residents say the large creatures don’t need the security of the Endangered Species Act.

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East Idaho puppy used for target practice

Kathy Moeller The Idaho Statesman

Last updated Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 9:19am

BLACKFOOT, Idaho --A veterinarian in Blackfoot said Friday that a stray Border Collie puppy he treated this week had suffered injuries from two bullets -- one shattered her rear leg, the other lodged under the skin on her back.

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Unruly cow shuts down traffic in Boise

Kathy Moeller The Idaho Statesman

Last updated Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 9:09am

BOISE -- Farm animals on the loose is small-town news, but Boise isn't too big for the occasional wayward animal.

On Friday, that animal was a young cow who jumped a pasture fence at Cloverdale and Ustick roads and headed east down Ustick. The wayward cow was reported at 8:30 p.m.

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Grizzly encounters may be Idaho's new normal

Rocky Barker The Idaho Statesman

Last updated Friday, November 25, 2011 - 3:46pm

BOISE -- When Connie Funkhouser saw the fresh bear track heading into the Caribou-Targhee National Forest on her recent run, she turned around.

Grizzly bear encounters are up dramatically this year in Island Park, along the Snake River near the boundary with Yellowstone National Park. Funkhouser, who lives in a subdivision on the Henrys Lake flats below Sawtelle Peak, takes no chances.

A few years ago she came upon a grizzly sow and cub on her favorite trail. Her neighbor, Richard Paini, was bitten by a grizzly bear in September while hunting.

"I always wear my bear spray on my hip and carry my gun in my hand," Funkhouser said. "I always go running with my two German shepherds." The spray is for a charging bear, she said. The gun is to call for help.

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