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LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials have filed a lawsuit against a timber company and its contractor contending they're responsible for a wildfire that killed a 20-year-old Forest Service firefighter and burned more than 300 acres in northern Idaho. The Lewiston Tribune reports the state filed the lawsuit seeking an unspecified amount in monetary damages for costs in fighting the fire. Idaho officials contend a logging crew started the fire using equipment that didn't meet Forest Service standards required by law.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A south-central Idaho man accused of fracturing a 4-month-old boy's skull by shaking him has been charged with two felony counts of injury to a child. The Times-News reports that 25-year-old Robert Welch of Twin Falls has denied any wrongdoing. He's being held in the Twin Falls County Jail on $100,000 bail.

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Two eastern Idaho men face charges after police say they threatened several residents who stayed up late to watch the recent lunar eclipse. The Idaho State Journal reports that 23-year-old Brian Beach and 23-year-old Mark Jackson are charged with one count each of resisting and obstructing.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Associated Press reporter Rebecca Boone has won a national Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in public service journalism for a series of stories covering understaffing at Idaho's largest prison. Boone's investigation revealed that private prison company Corrections Corporation of America falsified staffing records in violation of the company's $29-million-a-year state contract.

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