BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 20 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release: Attorney General Raul Labrador has announced investigators with his Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit arrested an Idaho Falls man on Wednesday, January 18, for alleged sexual exploitation of a child. 39-year-old Curtis L. Dustin was booked into the Bonneville County Jail. He is alleged to have possessed sexually exploitative material. The Idaho Falls Police Department, Bonnevil  more

BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 9 (TNSper) -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release: Attorney General Raul Labrador has announced that Deputy Attorney General John Olson will serve as the Acting Chief of the Consumer Protection Division after longtime current chief Brett DeLange retires later this month. Attorney General Labrador said, "John has worked in the Consumer Protection Division as an exceptional antitrust litigator for the last six years. He is an incredible as  more

BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 18 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release: Attorney General Raul Labrador has announced that an Idaho man was sentenced on Thursday, August 25, for Soliciting and Conspiring to Commit the Crime of Forgery as a part of a scheme to defraud the Idaho Medicaid program. 41-year-old Jeffrey Stoker, of Middleton, pleaded guilty to these offenses on October 6, 2022. Fourth District Judge Lynn Norton sentenced Stoker to a suspended sentence of s  more

BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 21 -- The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news: The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is releasing an IPDES preliminary draft permit to the city of Lava Hot Springs for preliminary review. The facility has 10 days to review the preliminary draft permit and fact sheet for any errors and omissions that should be addressed before the public participation period. After the preliminary draft period has concluded, DEQ will revise the   more

BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 21 -- Gov. Brad Little, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: Governor Brad Little was victorious in winning a lawsuit stemming from an encampment on the Capitol Annex, protecting the state's ability to prevent illegal encampments that harm public property and pose significant health and safety risks. A judge's decision earlier this month granted the Governor's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by activists challenging his administration's actions to remove the encampm  more

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, Jan. 16 (TNSpconf) -- North Idaho College issued the following news: North Idaho College hosted Coeur d'Alene School District's 36th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration of Human Rights on Thursday, Jan. 13 at Boswell Hall Schuler Performing Arts Center on NIC's main campus in Coeur d'Alene. The celebration teaches fifth graders about the life and work of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. The event was put on in partnership with the Kootenai County Task Fo  more

SILVER VALLEY, Idaho, Jan. 18 -- Verizon, a communications and technology solutions company, issued the following news release: Residents and visitors in the Silver Valley area of Northern Idaho just got a boost to their network service. Verizon engineers recently completed an upgrade to the cell sites serving the area, deploying fiber cables to move data from local cell towers through the rest of the network. This upgrade doubles the amount of data cell sites can process, meaning more customer  more