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SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) — A $3,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to a conviction in the theft of a Bonner County veteran's ashes from a cemetery in Sandpoint. The Daily Bee reports that the ashes of Leonard Scott were believed to have been taken from Lakeview Cemetery on or before June 10, 2014. The granite plate marking Scott's grave had been removed and the brass urn holding his ashes was missing.
NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Police in southwest Idaho say a Nampa man is dead after a car went off an Interstate 84 overpass and landed on his pickup. Authorities say John Pew died at a local hospital after a car driven by Tyler Callahan of Weiser went off the overpass yesterday morning. Police say Callahan and two juveniles in the vehicle were hospitalized in Boise.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit to move forward that alleges that Coeur d'Alene's anti-discrimination policy violates the wedding chapel owners' religious rights. However, while doing so, U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald Bush also severely limited the scope of the lawsuit. Hitching Post owners Don and Lynn Knapp closed their business for nearly a week in 2014 out of fear that the city would prosecute them for refusing to perform same-sex marriages.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho will finally implement a federal mandate to toughen ID requirements, reversing its nearly decade-long stance against the Real ID Act. Gov. C. L. "Butch" Otter has signed legislation to comply with the federal law. Lawmakers initially refused to comply with the federal act, passed in 2005, because they deemed it an unfunded mandate.
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