Two weeks ago, Idaho Sen. Larry Craig said he wouldn’t be attending this year’s national Republican Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul, which is set for Sept. 1-4, prompting lots of chortling in the blogosphere about how the senator won’t be “returning to the scene of the…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter today released a review of Idaho State Tax Commission practices, prompted by a whistleblower’s allegations that the commission was signing illegal secret deals to excuse large, multistate corporations from paying millions in Idaho taxes. Otter’s review, conducted by accountant P. LaVern…
A Department of Defense expert on identifying skeletal remains just testified that the bone and tooth fragments recovered after 9-year-old Dylan’s body was burned were just tiny, whitened fragments. The 1,752 bone and tooth fragments weighed only a total of 423.6 grams, Dr. William Rodriguez…
Joseph Duncan has formally and vehemently objected to his first piece of prosecution evidence – and it’s the most grisly evidence presented in the case so far, a fair-sized piece of his victim’s skull, with 9-year-old Dylan’s lush, strawberry blond hair. “Objection overruled,” U.S. District…
An FBI firearms expert who extensively tested the murder weapon testified this morning that Joseph Duncan’s Browning 12-gauge shotgun could not fire accidentally, such as from being dropped, and that multiple tests showed that 5 pounds of pressure was required on the trigger to get…
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