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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A recent state report says that in 2013 Idaho saw the highest number of deaths since record-keeping began, with cancer barely squeezing out heart disease as the No. 1 cause of death. According to the state's Department of Health and Welfare, more than 12,400 people died in Idaho in 2013.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A 1988 Nobel Prize put up for auction by a retired experimental physicist has sold for just over $765,000. Leon Lederman won the Nobel Prize in physics with two other scientists for discovering a subatomic particle. He retired from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, in June 2012 and moved to Idaho.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says Idaho's laws restricting abortions after 20 weeks and requiring all second-trimester abortions to take place in a hospital are unconstitutional. The case arose after an eastern Idaho woman was charged with having an illegal abortion using an abortion-inducing drug on the Internet.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nine states, including Idaho are stepping into a lawsuit over the Utah prairie dog in favor of a ruling that animal activists say threatens to undermine the Endangered Species Act. The attorneys general asked an appeals court to uphold a ruling striking down federal protections for the Utah prairie dog on private property.
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