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Police: Phone was distraction crash that killed USU student

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 4:21pm

LOGAN -- An ongoing investigation shows an 18-year-old Utah State University student was distracted by a phone when she died in a January crash in Idaho, minutes after posting on Facebook.

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Snowmobile gathering is a bucket of fun

Eric Barker Lewiston Morning Tribune

Last updated Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 2:02pm

POMEROY, Idaho -- The snowy flat just shy of Mount Misery was bustling with activity Saturday.

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USU student wasn't Facebooking in Idaho crash

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 6, 2012 - 11:40am

LOGAN -- Police say an 18-year-old Utah State University student was not distracted by a phone when she died in a January crash in Idaho, even though she posted on Facebook minutes earlier.

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The wreckage of a Lancair aircraft that crashed at the Boise Airport is seen Friday morning, Feb. 3, 2012, in Boise, Idaho. Steve Appleton, the head of Idaho memory chip maker Micron died Friday morning when the small experimental plane he was piloting crashed at the Boise airport, the company said. (AP Photo/The Idaho Statesman, Joe Jaszewski)

Micron CEO dies in Idaho plane crash

Rebecca Boone The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 3, 2012 - 3:15pm

BOISE, Idaho -- The head of Idaho memory chip maker Micron died Friday morning when the small experimental plane he was piloting crashed at the Boise airport, the company said.

Steve Appleton, 51, was the chief executive and chairman of Micron and a professional stunt pilot who escaped a similar plane crash in 2004 with serious injuries.

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The majority of responding Idaho students, 65 percent, said they had tried alcohol sometime during their lifetimes, and 22 percent said they consumed five or more alcoholic drinks in a row on at least one of the 30 days preceding the survey.

Survey: 65% of Idaho teens have tried alcohol

Staff Moscow-Pullman Daily News

Last updated Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 10:01am

The Idaho State Department of Education on Wednesday released the results of a 2011 survey of the state's high school students regarding their participation in risky behaviors.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which was administered last spring to more than 1,700 students in 48 randomly selected public high schools in Idaho.

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Young Idaho woman raising money for a new eye

Kevin Gaboury Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 12:26pm

LEWISTON, Idaho -- At the age of 2, an accident left Alaina Kaufman completely blind in her right eye.

Now, the Lewiston 19-year-old is hoping to raise enough money for a prosthetic eye that will give her a new outlook on life. Since elementary school, she's kept the damaged eye covered by a swoop of hair, but this can lead to awkward inquiries.

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Justin Cody Brownrigg (Idaho State Police)

Med marijuana card holder was headed to Utah with 69 lbs of pot

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 5:36pm

BOISE, Idaho -- A traffic stop in southwestern Idaho resulted in an Oregon man being charged with felony drug trafficking after officers found nearly 69 pounds of marijuana in his car.

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Darold Holroyd Chambers

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 11:46pm

Darold Holroyd Chambers, 83, died Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. A funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 27, at the North Pocatello Stake Center, 4890 Whitaker Road, Chubbuck, Idaho. The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, at the Colonial Funeral Home, 2005 S. 4th Ave., Pocatello, and from 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Friday at the stake center. Burial with military honors will follow at the Mountain View Cemetery. Condolences may be posted at www.Colonial-FuneralHome.com. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

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Michel Sorren Kerr

Obituaries Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 11:52pm

Michel Sorren Kerr, 80, died Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. A funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, at the English Funeral Home in Post Falls, Idaho, followed by a graveside service at the St. Johns Baptist Orthodox Church. Friends may call from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, with a Rosary at 7 p.m. at the funeral home. See the complete obituary in the Standard-Examiner's e-edition.

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Scott Knight, a supporter of the Occupy Boise movement,shovels snow from the tent encampment on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. About two dozen supporters of the Occupy movement that's erected tents on state property listened quietly as House Majority Leader Scott Bedke, R-Oakley, introduced a measure to evict them from the site across from the Capitol. (AP Photo/John Miller)

Idaho lawmakers target Occupy Boise with anti-camping bill

William L. Spence Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 11:20am

BOISE, Idaho -- Does the public's right to assemble and protest extend to pitching tents and holding cookouts on the capitol mall?

That's a question the House State Affairs Committee will address this morning, when it votes on a bill to prohibit camping on state property outside of designated campgrounds.

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Idaho edges Utah State 57-54 in late-night WAC play

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, January 22, 2012 - 12:03am

MOSCOW, Idaho -- Stephen Madison hit a 3-pointer with 20 seconds remaining to help Idaho beat the Utah State Aggies 57-54 Saturday night.

Preston Medlin had a chance to tie the game with five seconds remaining, but missed short and the Aggies (10-10, 2-3) were forced to foul to end the game.

Madison's 3-point shot was part of a 10-1 run with just under four minutes remaining to help Idaho (10-9, 3-2 WAC) erase a nine-point deficit.

Djim Bandoumel came off the bench and led Idaho with 16 points and Deremy Geiger added 12 points. Bandoumel scored 11 points in the second half to help the Vandals in the win. Idaho's bench scored 25 points.

Idaho forced 16 Aggie turnovers and had eight steals in the contest.

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Storm boosts Idaho snowpack

Eric Barker Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Saturday, January 21, 2012 - 8:20am

The storms of the past week have lifted some of Idaho's snowpacks from well below average to within a storm or two of normal.

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A Michigan state trooper has a message for all those Idaho troopers prowling U.S. Highway 95 on the Lewiston Hill: Maybe you should consider raising the speed limit instead of writing reams of tickets.

Boost in speed limits proposed in Idaho

William L. Spence Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 10:47am

BOISE, Idaho -- A Michigan state trooper has a message for all those Idaho troopers prowling U.S. Highway 95 on the Lewiston Hill: Maybe you should consider raising the speed limit instead of writing reams of tickets.

Speaking to the Senate Transportation Committee Thursday, Lt. Thad Peterson said setting highway speed limits based on actual driving behavior not only increases compliance -- it often improves traffic safety.

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Jan Douglass, Boise, Idaho, narrowly avoided disaster as her SUV slid to stop on the edge of a pond on Riverside Drive in Boise Wednesday Jan. 18, 2012. Garden City emergency crews fearing the worst dispatched a dive team to the call but nobody was injured in the accident. Heavy snow made travel in the Treasure Valley difficult and often perilous. (AP Photo/Idaho Statesman, Darin Oswald)

Snowstorm smothers Intermountain region

Brad W. Gary Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 11:57am

While some braved the fender bender-plagued streets to get home early from work or school Wednesday, Marcus Swearingen went sledding.

"It's not often you get 8-9 inches in a day, especially in Lewiston," said the Lewiston, Idaho man, joined by dozens of others at the makeshift sledding hill on Bryden Canyon Golf Course.

Many area schools that didn't opt for snow days had closed by Wednesday afternoon, prompting pickup trucks piled with snow hounds to fill the snow-covered fairways.

"It's getting better and better the more it gets packed down," Swearingen sa

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