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  • A 16-year-old girl who was rescued during an FBI shootout with her captor in the Idaho wilderness is resting at home with family and friends to begin what her father says will be a slow recovery.
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california, idaho, kidnapping, national/world
  • The Trending Channel
  • A black bear in search of a late-night snack broke into an Idaho house and licked leftover Chinese food from a cast iron pan on the stove.
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idaho, animals, food, trending
  • A harrowing weeklong search for a missing California teenager ended Saturday when FBI agents rescued the girl and shot her apparent kidnapper.
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california, idaho, missing children, national/world
  • Communities along the Mississippi River and other rain-engorged waterways are waging feverish bids to hold back floodwaters that may soon approach record levels.
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flooding, severe weather, illinois, idaho, missouri, mississippi, national/world
  • Action News
  • The guardian of a northern Idaho fifth-grader was upset Thursday with a school's response after she says a man entered a classroom, harassed and assaulted children and put her grandson in a chokehold.
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idaho, assault, national/world
  • Police arrested a 22-year-old man Monday after a monkey at the Boise zoo was found dead over the weekend, shortly after a zoo security guard frightened away two intruders.
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animals, idaho, national/world
  • Action News
  • A fourth-grade teacher in southern Idaho is being criticized after having her students use permanent markers to draw on the faces of classmates who failed to meet reading goals.
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idaho, school, national/world
  • If you're going to smoke pot in your dorm room -- better get rid of the felony weight first.
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idaho, illegal drugs, marijuana, college, bizarre bazaar
  • Action News
  • Fire officials say the wife of an Idaho lawmaker was injured when a room that they had converted into a gun safe exploded.
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idaho, explosion, national/world
  • Western wildfires
  • Click play to watch the report from Action News at 5:30 p.m.
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wild fire, california, utah, washington, idaho, colorado, national/world
  • Western wildfires
  • Firefighters across the West on Monday kept to the task of battling a summer-long series of raging wildfires.
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wild fire, california, utah, washington, idaho, colorado, national/world
  • Thunderstorms and lightning threatened fire officials' plans to contain a large blaze in central Washington state as hundreds of Washington and California residents returned home to find out whether their homes were spared.
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wild fire, idaho, national/world
  • President Barack Obama called the parents of an American prisoner of war to assure them that he and the U.S. Department of Defense were doing everything in their power to free Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl three years after his capture in Afghanistan.
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president barack obama, u.s. army, afghanistan, idaho, national/world
  • Idaho wildlife officials have relocated an adult bull moose after it charged an 88-year-old Arbon Valley woman in her yard.
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idaho, wildlife preservation, animals
  • For one night a year, a neighborhood farm in northwest Boise turns into a respite for singles who are tired of the same old dating scene.
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dating, idaho, national/world
  • No Five Wives in Idaho.
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idaho, alcohol, bizarre bazaar
  • Police in Idaho say a man chose briefs over boxers to wear on his head as he held up a coffee shop and stole a safe.
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idaho, burglary, bizarre bazaar
  • Rattlesnake
  • A man says he reached down to pick up a stick lying in the gardening aisle of a Wal-Mart in Idaho, only to discover that it was a rattlesnake that then bit his hand.
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washington, walmart, idaho, national/world
  • An Idaho man has been charged with assault after authorities say he ordered another man to perform the "moonwalk" at gunpoint.
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idaho, dumb criminals, guns, bizarre bazaar
  • Action News
  • An Idaho man has been charged with assault after authorities say he ordered another man to perform the "moonwalk" at gunpoint.
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idaho, national/world
  • Bruce Willis says he's willing to give away his central Idaho ski resort to a nonprofit.
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bruce willis, idaho, entertainment
  • Action News
  • He has been an Aryan Nations member and Ku Klux Klan leader, and now Shaun Winkler wants to be the sheriff in a rural Idaho county near the Canadian border.
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idaho, national/world
  • Action News
  • For a decade Jeff Rosenthal has campaigned to toughen the consequences for people who neglect, abuse and torture animals in Idaho.
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idaho, animals, animal abuse, national/world
  • The 18-year-old son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver says he was injured after getting in "a little ski accident" in Idaho.
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arnold schwarzenegger, idaho, entertainment
  • The Idaho Court of Appeals isn't buying the holy smoke argument.
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idaho, religion, marijuana, bizarre bazaar
  • An Idaho-based filmmaker hopes to raise $25,000 for a documentary about the first person freed from death row by DNA evidence.
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idaho, movies, dna, execution, entertainment
  • "Die Hard" movie star Bruce Willis is asking $15 million for his Idaho home complete with a guesthouse, gym and pool with water slides.
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bruce willis, idaho, home sales, economy, entertainment
  • A river in Idaho has finally run out of toilet paper.
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idaho, accident, bizarre bazaar
  • Cleanup crews in Idaho have finished clearing honey and an estimated 14 million bees that got loose after a delivery truck overturned on a highway.
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idaho, accident, wildlife preservation, animals
  • Fire
  • Idaho authorities say a small house fire in Ammon led to the discovery of a man with a gunshot wound and four bodies, including those of two children.
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idaho, fire, national/world
  • A Coeur d'Alene man has been ordered to pay more than $6,800 in restitution for defrauding a bounty program that pays anglers who catch trout in northern Idaho's Lake Pend Oreille.
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idaho, wildlife preservation, bizarre bazaar
  • A western Idaho couple is concerned there might have been a kid-naaaping.
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idaho, wildlife preservation, animals
  • Rescue efforts have reached a section of a collapsed tunnel where they had hoped to find an Idaho silver miner who has been missing underground for more than a week, a Hecla Mining Co. official said Saturday.
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mine collapse, idaho, national/world
  • Stop me if you've heard this one: A goat walks into a music store.
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idaho, music, wildlife preservation, animals
  • Rescuers are getting closer to a miner trapped in an Idaho silver mine and expect to move faster when a remote-control digger goes into operation later Monday.
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idaho, mine collapse, national/world
  • Mining company officials brought in a remote-controlled digging machine Sunday to help try to reach a worker missing since a tunnel collapsed deep inside a northern Idaho mine.
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idaho, mine collapse, national/world
  • Rodeo week in Pocatello kicked off with an unscheduled running of the bulls as three of the bucking beasts broke free and headed through town with cowboys and police in pursuit.
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idaho, wildlife preservation, animals
  • A T.G.I Friday's in Idaho has a beef with whoever took its giant hamburger trophy.
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idaho, food, bizarre bazaar
  • Authorities say a smart phone and a dumb idea have landed a 21-year-old Idaho man in trouble with the law.
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idaho, dumb criminals, police, police impersonator, cell phones, bizarre bazaar
  • The FBI has arrested a former professor at Rider University on sex charges.
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new jersey, west mount airy, pennsylvania, philadelphia, sex, sex offenders, idaho, crime, katherine scott
  • A dog almost went down the drain in Idaho over the weekend.
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idaho, animals, bizarre bazaar
  • Holly Lahti burst into the spotlight a week ago after winning $190 million in the Mega Millions jackpot.
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lottery, mega millions, idaho, national/world
  • Tyler Ashton Marx's lucky number is going to be one, or 11, or maybe both.
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idaho, children, bizarre bazaar
  • Audience members got a brief chuckle during a legislative hearing at the Idaho Capitol, when lawmakers were hit with a pop quiz on their state's history - and not everyone passed.
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idaho, history, bizarre bazaar
  • Mega Millions
  • A northern Idaho woman has claimed the remaining half of a $380 million Mega Millions jackpot, Idaho Lottery officials said Wednesday.
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mega millions, pennsylvania, philadelphia, new jersey, delaware, idaho, national/world
  • Police in Idaho say a man who asked authorities to arrest and deport him to Mexico stole a squad car after his request was denied.
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idaho, police, immigration, bizarre bazaar
  • A family holding an Idaho Lottery ticket worth $1 million wasn't taking any chances while traveling from their home in Brigham City, Utah,to claim their winnings in Boise.
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idaho, lottery, money, bizarre bazaar
  • KKK Snowman
  • A white separatist drew complaints from neighbors and a visit from law enforcement officers after erecting a snowman shaped like a member of the Ku Klux Klan on his front lawn.
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idaho, national/world
  • KKK Snowman
  • A white separatist in Idaho created a snowman shaped like a member of the Ku Klux Klan on his front lawn.
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idaho, national/world
  • Police arrested a woman in Idaho's capital city after they say she impersonated a plastic surgeon and conducted breast exams on at least two women in local bars.
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idaho, health care, bizarre bazaar