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May 27, 2008
J.R. SIMPLOT, 99 Businessman, philanthropist J.R. Simplot, Idaho's richest man and a state icon, died of pneumonia Sunday at his home. A farmboy who never attended high school, Mr. Simplot built a personal fortune recently estimated at $3.6 billion. He and the company he founded all but reinvented the humble potato, creating the first successful frozen french fries and partnering with McDonald's to sell them worldwide. The private company he began became one of the largest agribusiness conglomerates in the world.
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By Ellen Goodman | September 7, 2007
BOSTON -- Well, that didn't take long. A mere five days from the Roll Call revelations to the presumed resignation. When Sen. Larry E. Craig of Idaho got caught in a sex sting in a Minneapolis airport restroom, Republican stalwarts broke the speed record turning him from the distinguished senator into the disgusting senator. Gay rights groups did not rise to the defense of their public enemy. The only politician expressing empathy for Mr. Craig was James E. McGreevey, the "outed" former governor of New Jersey who is now - you cannot make this stuff up - in divinity school.
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By Richard Simon | September 2, 2007
WASHINGTON -- In 27 years as a congressman and senator representing Idaho, Larry E. Craig built a long legislative record. He played a key role in enacting a law that shields gun makers and sellers from lawsuits over misuse of their weapons. He helped broker a deal that led to legislation aimed at preventing forest fires. And he steered millions of dollars to his state for projects. But just four days, 19 hours and 42 minutes after the first report of his arrest in a sex sting operation was posted on the Internet, his political career came to an end. He faces the prospect of being remembered, not for his legislative record, but for his police record.
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By McClatchy-Tribune | June 17, 2007
BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho Water Resources Director David Tuthill issued orders Friday to farmers, food processors, dairies and 13 cities in six counties to shut off their water pumps July 6. The order, if carried out, would dry up 16,600 acres of farmland planted in crops including corn, sugar beets, potatoes and hay. Tuthill issued the curtailment order under the state's first-come, first-served water law to meet the demands of two spring-fed fish producers...
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October 28, 2006
LEONID HAMBRO, 86 Victor Borge's sidekick Leonid Hambro, a concert pianist who served as Victor Borge's comedic sidekick and was known for his ability to commit to memory a huge repertoire, died Monday at his Manhattan home of complications from a fall, said his wife, Barbara Hambro. He had a 10-year partnership with Mr. Borge, beginning in 1961, that earned him the most visibility. Mr. Borge's piano comedy act had Mr. Hambro playing the straight guy to his antics. He also had a 16-year career as pianist for WQXR radio station, where he played live weekly broadcasts and chamber music recitals.
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By JULIE CART | December 29, 2005
BOISE, IDAHO -- Since the first captured Canadian gray wolves bounded out of their cages 10 years ago and disappeared into the trees, the animals that once were hunted to near-extinction throughout the West have become a rare success story for the Endangered Species Act. Thanks, in part, to strict federal protection, nearly 900 wolves now roam in scores of packs across their historic range. The wolves' comeback is all the more remarkable given the hatred that heralded their reintroduction, followed by a campaign of shooting and poisoning that continues.
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By Erika Niedowski | December 5, 2004
JEROME COUNTY, Idaho - The big, white Starline bus rolls to a stop and Jeni Yamada is the first to stand. It has taken a long time to get to this place in the middle of nowhere, this place called Minidoka. Far longer than the 12-hour, 650-mile trip from Seattle just ended, or the flight from Baltimore days before. More than six decades ago, Jeni's mother, uncles and grandmother lived here behind barbed wire, under armed guard, in a drafty, tar-papered barracks. With some 120,000 other Japanese immigrants and their American-born children, they were interned during World War II - summarily evicted from their homes and communities, rounded up, put on trains and buses, and sent here or to one of nine other hastily erected camps.
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By ANDREW LECKEY | September 19, 2004
THERE COMES A TIME when a man must go into the wilderness and face one of Mankind's oldest, and most feared, enemies: trout. For me, that time came recently in Idaho, where I go every summer. Many people think Idaho is nothing but potato farms, but nothing could be farther from the truth: There are also beet farms. No, seriously, Idaho is a beautiful state that offers - to quote Emerson - "nature out the bazooty." This includes many rivers and streams that allegedly teem with trout. I say "allegedly" because until recently I never saw an actual trout, teeming or otherwise.
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By Dave Barry | September 21, 2003
EVERY SO OFTEN I head for Sun Valley, Idaho, because I have friends there and because Idaho contains large quantities of nature. The problem is that my friends are never content to sit around with a cool beverage and look at the nature from a safe distance, as nature intended. No, my friends want to go out and interact with the nature in some kind of potentially fatal way. Frenzied suicidal outdoor interactivity is big in the Sun Valley area. Everybody you see is wearing a helmet and those really tight shorts that outdoorsy people wear to ensure that their personal characteristics are visible from Mars.
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By Judith Graham | June 22, 2003
HORSESHOE BEND, Idaho - The electronic sign flashes at motorists speeding through the hills on their way to raft, kayak or fish in the river running through the green valley below. "Crickets on Highway. Slick Road," it warns. There they are climbing up the guardrail and spilling onto the road - thousands of dark red Mormon crickets, resembling giant grasshoppers. Behind them, the hills are swarming with hordes, more than anyone could possibly count. This is one of nature's cruel surprises in the sea of sagebrush that stretches across southern Idaho, northern Nevada and Utah: infestations of ravenous crickets, which march in armies up to 100,000 strong, eating virtually everything they find that has moisture content, including each other.