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Bryan Kohberger has reportedly accepted a plea deal, agreeing to cop to the vicious murders of four University of Idaho undergrads in 2022. The deal will make Kohberger safe from the death penalty, but he must plead guilty to four murders and waive his right to appeal, and he will serve life in prison without the possibility of parole, NewsNation reported. The deal is a shocking twist in a hard-fought case in which prosecutors accused Kohberger of sneaking into a rental home in nearby Moscow, Idaho, and fatally stabbing Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves.

I grieve so much for his parents wondering "why" and the big hole in their hearts as well as for the brave firefighters who died.

The alleged sniper who killed two firefighters and wounded a third in an ambush-styled attack in Idaho has been identified as Wess Roley. The Associated Pressd reported, citing a law enforcement official, that Roley deliberately set a brush fire on Canfield Mountain, near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, on Sunday, June 29 to lure first responders into a deadly trap. The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office said fire crews responded to a blaze at Canfield Mountain just north of Coeur d’Alene around 1:30 p.m. Gunshots were reported about a half-hour later. In audio from the scene, a firefighter said there was an "emergency...

BREAKING: Idaho shooter found dead, per Kootenai County Sheriff.

Wess Roley has been named as the sniper who lured firefighters to an Idaho mountain by setting a bush fire, then shooting two of them dead. Roley, who also died on Sunday, was identified to the Associated Press by a law enforcement source on Monday morning. No further biographical information including his age, profession or a possible motive has been given. DailyMail.com will update this story with additional information on Roley as it becomes available, with a press conference He slaughtered two firefighters, who haven't been named, and left a third critically-ill after starting a brush fire cops fear was...

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BOISE – Governor Brad Little and other members of the Board of Examiners approved a request Tuesday to tap up to $300,000 from the Governor’s emergency fund to support the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in transporting hundreds of dangerous illegal alien criminals out of Idaho jails. The action follows the Governor’s announcement earlier this month that the Idaho State Police (ISP) entered into an agreement with ICE under the 287(g) program. In a letter Governor Little sent to ISP Colonel Bill Gardiner in May requesting transportation cost estimates, Governor Little said, “An untold number of illegal immigrants poured...

At the end of their sentences, inmates who do not have authorization to be in U.S. will be transported to ICE facilities for deportation, not returned to their communityA board chaired by Idaho Gov. Brad Little approved a $300,000 request on Tuesday to pay for Idaho State Police to transport people who have been convicted of a crime and do not have legal authorization to be in the United States to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers for deportation. The Idaho State Board of Examiners voted unanimously to approve the request without any discussion during a meeting Tuesday morning...

Two security experts from the Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory drove to San Antonio, Texas, in March 2017 with a sensitive mission: to retrieve dangerous nuclear materials from a nonprofit research lab there. Their task, according to documents and interviews, was to ensure that the radioactive materials did not fall into the wrong hands on the way back to Idaho, where the government maintains a stockpile of nuclear explosive materials for the military and others. To ensure they got the right items, the specialists from Idaho brought radiation detectors and small samples of dangerous materials to calibrate them: specifically,...

A surprise second eyewitness has emerged in the Idaho student murders case and could testify against Bryan Kohberger at trial later this year. A woman claiming to be the Idaho DoorDash driver who dropped off food to victim Xana Kernodle minutes before a home invasion stabbing spree killed her, her boyfriend, and two roommates, has emerged as a surprise second eyewitness to testify at Kohberger’s upcoming murder trial, and she told police she saw him at the scene. The purported driver revealed herself in a police bodycam video from an alleged DUI stop taken in September 2024 and posted weeks...

daho (ABC4) — Cenobio Feliciano-Galeana came to the U.S. illegally when he was 18 years old. 18 years since he’s found a life, a wife, and now four children. But after seeing the deportations taking place across the country, he has decided to self-deport back to his home country of Mexico Ashlee, Cenobio’s wife, says she and the family are coming with him. At the end of the year, she plans move with her four children to a country they have never known, just to keep the family together

A nationwide protest against President Donald Trump is planned for June 14, with approximately 12 locations in Idaho announced as part of the protest. What’s Happening: A group called No Kings is planning protests and asking volunteers to organize demonstrations in their towns. The group says they are doing the protest because, “They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings.” Here are the Idaho cities, according to the No Kings website, that are planning to protest on...

BOISE, Idaho — The Pride Season Kickoff, initially scheduled for June 6, has been canceled due to insufficient attendance, despite strong online enthusiasm. The event was intended to enhance LGBTQ+ visibility and community connection in June, serving as a precursor to the main Boise Pride celebration in September. Organizers expressed their commitment to expanding Pride in Boise, emphasizing the need for active community participation to bring new events to life. "We know the desire for more Pride programming is real—we hear it constantly," they said. However, they noted that early community buy-in is crucial for the success of events outside...

Next month will mark one of the most contentious months in America, known as Pride Month; however, at least one event in Idaho has been cancelled due to low interest. What’s Happening: A Facebook page called Boise Pride posted on May 29 that they were cancelling their event due to not enough people buying tickets. The event was supposed to take place at the Knitting Factory...

In testimony before the Congressional Committee on Appropriations this week, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy, Jr. wrangled with Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Id) over whether governments should be adding fluoride to drinking water. Simpson questioned whether Kennedy's opposition to fluoridating was wise, saying "as a dentist I am acutely aware of statistics showing that where water is fluoridated cavities are rarer. I fear that removing it will lead to an epidemic of rotting teeth among our population. Are you indifferent to this risk?" Kennedy responded saying "the National Toxicity Program issued a report in August 2024, a...

According to an email sent May 13, 2025, by Department of Natural Resources Director Dan Gibbs, Nicole Rosmarino is the sole finalist for the director of the State Land Board, which is the state’s second largest landowner with 2.8 million surface acres and 4 million mineral estate acres. Gibbs said, per statute, the board provides public notice for 14 days prior to a formal appointment which will occur at the next regularly scheduled public board meeting, which is June 11 and 12 in Denver. An email sent to DNR confirmed the hire Friday. The mission of the State Land Board...

Big Blowup of 1910, also called Big Burn, devastating forest fire that torched 3 million acres (1.2 million hectares) in western Montana and northern Idaho during Aug. 20–23, 1910. Of the fire’s 85 victims, 78 were firefighters.

Washington — The Trump administration on Monday urged a federal district court to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration's actions expanding access to the widely used abortion pill mifepristone. Justice Department lawyers wrote in a filing with the U.S. district court in Amarillo, Texas, that the three states pursuing the lawsuit — Missouri, Idaho and Kansas — should not be able to do so in that court. The administration is pursuing a request initially made by the Biden administration last year in the closely watched challenge to mifepristone, a drug used to terminate an early pregnancy, that...

House Republicans are planning to include several of President Trump’s campaign promises in the first draft of the bill, which they hope to release soon.It was easy to miss, but last weekend President Trump floated a fundamental rewrite of the American tax code. In a social media post, and again in remarks to reporters, Mr. Trump suggested the United States could stop taxing income under $200,000 and instead rely on revenue from his extensive tariffs. “It’ll take a little while before we do that, but we’re going to be cutting taxes, and it’s possible we’ll do a complete tax cut,”...

(College Station, T.X., April 29, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins today announced a second round of payments coming this week for specialty crop producers through the Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops (MASC) program, providing up to $1.3 billion in additional program assistance. U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) already delivered just under $900 million in first round payments to eligible producers.