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“With the touch scanner, students are screaming through the line. We've cut efficiency down by 15 minutes a meal”

For students at three Mountain Home elementary schools, lunch is now just a touch away. via Mountain Home News

The cost of holding a second trial for convicted murderer Mark Lankford has almost reached the quarter-million dollar mark. via 2NEWS.TV

“We believe that this park is the showcase for Southern Idaho, all of Idaho, even the Pacific Northwest, that we want to make sure that when people see the entrance they'll say it's a great park.”

With all this beauty bestowed in this area; it is no wonder that the city wants to make improvements to the park that include upgrading the parking lot and entrance area and eventually putting kiosks in to show ... via KMVT Twin Falls

Fourteen students in southern Idaho are each creating three- to five-minute videos as part of the Raices Project, a 4-year plan to strengthen rural Latino communities in Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota and Oregon. via KIFI

“This clinic provides medical care to the medically under-served in our community”

It was a big check for the little clinic that could. On Thursday Regence BlueShield of Idaho handed over a check for $10,000 to the Snake River Community Clinic. via KLEW-TV Lewiston

“Tribal members should get the facts about the deal before they endorse the Las Vegas casino.”

Posted: An update now on a story we broke last weekend concerning a business plan by several indian tribes to purchase land on the Las Vegas strip. via KPVI-TV Pocatello

“The tribes came and they negotiated in good faith and we did accomplish several things that we have been trying to accomplish for a number of years. Ladies and gentlemen, I think this is a good agreement”

BOISE, Idaho - The Idaho House has overwhelming approved fuel tax agreements between the state and four American Indian tribes. via Times-News

BOISE, Idaho - The Idaho Supreme Court has rejected a bid by Pocatello to leverage a 120-year-old act of Congress to assert a federal water right to rivers that flow across eastern Idaho tribal lands. via Times-News

“We usually end up picking them up.”

Family movies are less common, but in demand By Ariel Hansen Times-News writer A few Christmases ago, Maria Walker and her son Tai, now 5, went to see "The Polar Express." Halfway through the animated Tom Hanks ... via Times-News

“Our state government will support these additional counties as they work to provide critical services to our fellow Idahoans.”

Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter has signed a State of Idaho disaster declaration to add additional Idaho counties to the list of those affected by this winter's extreme snow conditions. via Clearwater Tribune

The director of the Marshall Public Library in Pocatello is trying to raise more than $12,000 in grants to help promote a community reading project. via KIFI Idaho Falls

WALLACE, Idaho - The murder trial of former Idaho death row inmate Mark lankford is scheduled to continue Monday in Wallace. via Times-News

BOISE, Idaho - The weather and threat of avalanche is making travel difficult all across Idaho. via Times-News

“There's definitely less injury crashes, but we still have countless amounts of slide offs which means people are driving a little too fast for the conditions of the roadway”

Police across the valley spent Sunday responding to slide offs as a result of the latest round of snow In the morning hours, Idaho State Police officials say they responded to 40 slide offs spanning four ... via KTVB Boise

Lawyers are set to make opening statements Monday in the retrial of a man who spent more than two decades on Idaho's death row for the 1983 slayings of a young Texas couple camped in the Idaho wilderness. via Idaho State Journal

Only a handful of people turned out last week to comment on the draft Environmental Impact Statement detailing alternatives for expansion of L&W Stone's Three Rivers Stone Quarry. via Challis Messenger

Don't let winter boredom bring on the blues. Pick an adventure that suits your fancy, and get out of the house. via Times-News

“But right now we would be looking at hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars if we wanted to develop those on our own. So, let's give collaboration a chance.”

North Idaho College's top executive asked state lawmakers Wednesday to budget $115,000 for NIC to enter a joint class program with Spokane Community College. via Coeur d'Alene Press Newspaper

“It's not the same case with these airsoft guns.”

POCATELLO, Idaho - A series of encounters between police and children toting toy guns has some eastern Idaho parents and police wondering if the state needs tougher restrictions on toys that closely resemble ... via Times-News

“It is inescapable - - that spring flows have declined over time and that a portion of that decline is attributable to groundwater pumping”

Story published at magicvalley.com on Saturday, January 12, 2008 Last modified on Saturday, January 12, 2008 12:26 AM MST Times-News file photo Chief Justice of Idaho Gerald Schroeder, picked to resolve a ... via Times-News