Stories from Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Baby Kayston Pickens, the young infant son of Colton and Naomi Pickens has spent this entire past week at the University of Utah Burn Center after his car seat ignited in a freak accident on October 18th, which caused third degree burns. Doctors say Kayston will need to stay in the hospital for at least 10 days and will have to make numerous trips back to Utah for treatment...

10.22.21 - The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare supports authorization by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to administer booster doses of the of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines. ...

Voting is a responsibility> The fastest, simplest, most economical, safest, most effective method of actually getting people to participate in elections is to have mail in ballots. Send each registered voter a postpaid ballot with 30 days of the election have them fill it out and sign along their name, address and phone number. ...

Our varsity football team placed 3rd in conference, which gives them a playoff berth. They will be playing Sandpoint High School in the first round of playoffs on Friday Oct. 29th at 7 pm. This game will take place in Sandpoint. The send off for them will take place at 1 pm on Thursday Oct. 28th in front of the gym foyer...

October 25, 2021 - The Second Amendment of our Constitution reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” I firmly believe this provision prohibits the federal government from denying citizens this right. Burdening law-abiding citizens of this country with additional gun restrictions is not the answer to safeguarding the public...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The suspect in a Boise mall shooting that killed two people and injured four others has died, the Boise Police Department said Tuesday. The Ada County Coroner identified the suspected shooter as Jacob Bergquist, a 27-year-old Boise man. Coroner Dotti Owens said Bergquist’s cause of death was still pending, but he died late Tuesday morning at a hospital...