All the headlines from our Idaho Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 26 2013 // The University of Mississippi Medical Center said it will give students free insurance against identity theft after an accidental privacy breach.Last week, UMMC mistakenly sent about 190 people an email that had a...
Aug 22 2013 // More than 40 uncontained, active and large wildfires dot the western U.S. from Arizona to Washington state and Alaska, taxing national firefighting resources and helping to push spending past $1 billion for the year.The...
Aug 20 2013 // The Buckner Co. opened a new office in Boise, Idaho and named as head of the operations Chad Williams, who spent the past decade in the Boise commercial insurance arena. Expanding into the Boise market has been a long-term...
Aug 19 2013 // Jose Luis Calderon says he had the cash to buy a car, but he decided to get an auto loan so he could build up a credit history. It wasn’t until he was turned down that the 27-year-old Nampa man realized he already...
Aug 14 2013 // Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter has issued a disaster declaration for areas on southern Idaho ravaged in recent weeks by wildfires. The declaration announced Monday specifically targets Elmore County, where two large,...
Aug 2 2013 // Chris Schenk has joined Starley Leavitt Insurance Agency in Twin Falls, Idaho. Schenk will focus on home and auto, life, health and commercial insurance. Prior to insurance Schenk helped run a car detailing business. He...
Jul 22 2013 // Idaho State Police say they have issued more than 66 citations statewide for texting while driving since the texting ban took effect a year ago. The Post Register reported that 16 of those citations since July 1, 2012,...
Jul 15 2013 // Federal agriculture officials have issued a disaster declaration for Clark County in eastern Idaho due to a lack of rain for the last two months. The U.S. Department of Agriculture this week also put four other nearby...
Jul 11 2013 // A former councilman for the eastern Idaho city of Rigby has waived his preliminary hearing on felony charges of insurance fraud and grand theft. Prosecutors say Lawrence Blackburn wrongly took money from the estate of...
Jul 9 2013 // Idaho State Police say they have issued 66 citations statewide for texting while driving since the texting ban took effect a year ago. The Post Register reported that 16 of those citations since July 1, 2012, occurred in...
Jul 8 2013 // A northern Idaho couple has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Kootenai County.The Coeur d’Alene Press reported that the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Coeur d’Alene contends Kathy Pagano was...
Jul 1 2013 // Nearly 290,000 jobs will become available in Idaho by 2020, a new study says.Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce in a study finds the fastest-growing occupations will be health care...
Jun 26 2013 // Four men are suing the Mormon church and Boy Scouts of America in federal court, saying they were sexually abused while attending scouting functions in Idaho.Attorneys Gilion Dumas, Andrew Chasan and Timothy Walton filed...
Jun 24 2013 // The mother and husband of a Special Olympics Idaho athlete are suing the organization, alleging it was negligent in failing to protect the athlete from being raped during a Special Olympics event in Boise in July 2011.The...
Jun 21 2013 // The Los Angeles City Council has agreed to pay $4.2 million to two women whose truck was shot up by police during the manhunt for cop-turned-killer Christopher Dorner. City News Service says the council voted 10-nothing on...
Jun 20 2013 // A former city councilman from eastern Idaho who resigned earlier this year then left the state is back in Idaho and charged with two felonies.The Post Register reported that Lawrence Blackburn was arraigned in 7th District...
Jun 18 2013 // The Idaho Department of Insurance will begin licensing businesses to sell portable electronics insurance to cover the repair or replacement of portable electronic devices such as cell phones and tablets and their...
Jun 5 2013 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined a Lewiston, Idaho construction company for its role in a natural gas explosion in downtown Lewiston last November.The Lewiston Tribune reported OSHA cited M.L....
May 24 2013 // Idaho State University is paying a $400,000 to the federal government to settle allegations it improperly exposed confidential medical records.In August 2011, ISU told the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of a...
May 10 2013 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Insurance Director Mary Taylor issued an alert after reports surfaced that telephone con artists are attempting to steal Ohioans’ personal information using the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...