Lori Vallow’s attorney Mark Means has waived her preliminary hearing, and the case will head straight to district court.
Local News
COVID-19 shut down various events this year, but it's not preventing the annual St. Anthony Chamber of Commerce Summerfest from continuing.
Rexburg
Karole Honas, award-winning reporter and anchor for KIFI-TV's top-rated Local News 8 at 5, 6, & 10pm, announced that she is retiring this month after 30 years at Local News 8.
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Judge Faren Eddins ruled Tuesday that Chad Daybell’s case will go to a jury trial.
Rexburg
Remote Area Medical- RAM® – a major nonprofit provider of pop-up clinics delivering free, quality, dental, vision, and medical care to underinsured anduninsured individuals – is bringing an appointment only free clinic to Rexburg, Idaho, Aug. 22-Aug. 23, 2020.
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3:48: Both sides stipulate a deadline in 60 days to file a motion for a change of venue, either within District 7 or in another judicial district.
Education
REXBURG — We are pleased to announce that Brigham Young University-Idaho will broadcast an online commencement service to celebrate and recognize our Spring Semester 2020 graduates. Elder L. Whitney Clayton, Senior President of the Quorums of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latt…
On Monday Rexburg residents gathered at Kennedy Elementary for a candlelight vigil to celebrate the eighth birthday of J.J. Vallow. The vigil also served as reminder that J.J. and his sister Tylee have been missing since September, 2019.
Beehive Federal Credit Union is pleased to announce they have awarded a total of $9,000 in Service Awards (scholarships) to the following recipients for the 2019/2020 school year:
Agriculture and Business
ISLAND PARK — The Sawtelle Mountain Resort is undergoing a facelift.
ST. ANTHONY — Thanks to the purchase of two St. Anthony Industrial Park parcels the city will pay off a $250,000 Development Company loan used to develop the park. The organization is also known as the East Idaho Planning and Development Association.
REXBURG — Restoration work on a local Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant proved to be more than a headache for the company in charge of the repair work.
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The eastern Idaho community has rallied around the Moser family ever since news of 5-year-old Jack Moser’s accident last week first started being shared on social media.
REXBURG – The Madison Veterans Service officer hopes to share a message of peace via his restored 1969 Vietnam War ambulance.
Madison Memorial Hospital respiratory therapist, Aaron Craythorn, is in New York treating COVID-19 patients at the Lincoln Bronx Hospital in New York. He has done so for the past six weeks and plans to be there for another month.
State News
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With the coronavirus pandemic showing no signs of slowing, many schools are preparing to once again teach remotely. If remote learning becomes a large part of the coming school year, it may very well create a learning divide between students who have access to computers and internet access a…
BOISE — State officials said during Tuesday’s AARP telephone conference that 58% of Idaho’s COVID-19 deaths have been linked to long-term care facilities.
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BLACKFOOT - On Tuesday, Aug. 4, Blackfoot City Police were dispatched to the area of Pacific Street and Spruce Street for a report of an attempted robbery (vehicle).
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Idaho State football has seen its season opener pushed back once already, and the Bengals’ season still hangs by a thread as the Big Sky Conference has not yet made a decision on whether to move forward with fall sports. But in an uncertain year, the Bengals are scheduled to start fall camp …
On the cuteness scale, Idaho Fish and Game’s “Grizzly Cam” video ranks darn high.
National News
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Salt Lake City School District condemned a student’s yearbook quote after a social media post about it went viral.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The first nightly protest in downtown Portland after a deal was struck for the withdrawal of federal agents guarding a courthouse was largely peaceful and ended Friday without any major confrontations between state police and demonstrators.
Ninety years ago, hemp researchers at Utah State University grew cannabis for rope and had no way to test the THC content in crops other than smoking it and monitoring the effects. Research halted in 1970 when then-President Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substances Act.
Utah prosecutors will pursue the death penalty against a California man accused of shooting and killing a motorist on I-84 in Box Elder County last year.
World News
When leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lift the temporary suspension of weekly worship services, Church members around the world will again enjoy the centrality of the meetinghouse to their Sabbath experience.
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BOISE — Nearly 14,000 Idahoans have tested negative for COVID-19, but it is unclear how many of those were faulty results.
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A video meeting hosted by Utah’s Alpine School District was hacked, revealing pornographic images to dozens of elementary school students last week.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a new symbol to identify the faith. Church Prophet and President Russell M. Nelson announced it and explained its significance during the Saturday evening session of the April 2020 general conference.
