Idaho

Idaho State Police said Saturday that the driver of the tour van involved in a deadly collision with a pickup truck was licensed in California.

A Dodge Ram pickup and a Mercedes passenger van collided about 16 miles west of the park in Eastern Idaho, police say.

Prosecutors said that Vallow Daybell and her brother, Alex Cox, planned to kill her estranged husband so she could collect money from his life insurance policy and marry her then-boyfriend, Chad Daybell, an Idaho author who wrote several religious novels about prophecies and the end of the world.

A judge says a former roommate of four University of Idaho students who were killed in 2022 can testify about seeing an intruder with “bushy eyebrows” around the time of the crime.

Victor Perez, 17, who also had cerebral palsy, had been in a coma since the April 5 shooting, and tests Friday showed that he had no brain activity.

A judge is set to hear motions that will shape the proceedings in the Idaho college murders trial and could remove the death penalty as punishment.

The night four college students were fatally stabbed, their surviving roommates at the Idaho home expressed worry about not being able to reach their friends and referred to someone in a “ski mask,” court documents unsealed Thursday show.

An Idaho woman was forcibly removed by three unidentified men at a town hall led by a local Republican committee. The woman was described by the committee as disruptive.

A judge this week declined to throw out key evidence against the man charged in the killings of four University of Idaho students near the campus two years ago. The decision cleared the way for Bryan Kohberger’s murder trial to begin this summer. Kohberger is charged with four counts of murder in the stabbing deaths of four students who were...

A child was hospitalized after a raccoon attack inside the family’s home as the baby was in a carrier, state officials said Friday.

An Idaho teenager has been arrested in connection with the body of an infant found last month at a hospital in a box meant for people to anonymously give up a newborn, police said Friday.

The newborn was removed from the Safe Haven Baby Box at the Grove Creek Medical Center in Blackfoot “within a minute,” but was dead long before, officials say.

Chad Daybell has been sentenced to death for the murders of his first wife and his second wife’s two youngest children in Idaho.

A cellphone analyst suggested at a pretrial hearing Thursday that he has been stymied by law enforcement’s disorganized data collection and recordkeeping in the case against Bryan Kohberger, the graduate student accused in the fatal stabbings of four Idaho college students.

Attorneys for Bryan Kohberger, who was indicted for murder in May last year, said that his alibi is confirmed by the location of his mobile device.

An Idaho teenager was arrested and accused of planning to kill churchgoers during services across his hometown in the name of the Islamic State group.

Utah coach Lynne Roberts says her team experienced a series of “racial hate crimes” after arriving at its first women’s NCAA Tournament hotel and was forced to change accommodation during the event for safety concerns.

Authorities are investigating the deaths of an 83-year-old man who was walking his dogs and a 72-year-old man who lived in a remote cabin in connection with the escape of an Idaho white supremacist prison gang member and an accomplice after a Boise hospital ambush.

Idaho law enforcement officials are searching for two inmates who escaped from Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center on Wednesday. Authorities say Skylar Meade and his accomplice shot and injured two corrections officers during their escape and should be considered armed and dangerous.

Police on Thursday arrested two white supremacist gang members — an Idaho prison inmate and the accomplice who helped him escape — following an attack on corrections officers at a Boise hospital, and investigators are looking into whether they killed two people while on the run.