Police chief attributes decrease to community partnerships, proactive officers. Crime was down significantly in 2015 throughout Moscow and Latah County, even with a triple-murder on the books, according to the Idaho State Police’s recently released annual agency crime report. The report, which documents criminal offenses reported and cleared, along with arrests of juveniles and adults

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton refused to say whether she would comply with an internal State Department investigation into her use of a private email server while secretary of state. In an interview on CNN on Friday, Clinton did not answer the question when asked multiple times by Wolf Blitzer about the new investigation announced

Ten states sued the federal government Friday over rules requiring public schools to allow transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms conforming to their gender identity. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Nebraska and included nine other states: Arkansas, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming. The

A group seeking to repeal a state rule allowing transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender with which they identify failed to collect enough signatures to qualify a ballot measure for the November ballot but says it is not giving up on efforts to change the regulation. The group supporting the proposed Initiative

A rally to show support for law enforcement will be held 4-8 p.m. Saturday in Friendship Square in downtown Moscow#PoliceLivesMatter 

Hillary Clinton said one thing about her emails and their classified information; the FBI found another thing. The old fashioned word for this is lying.

This is not going to make the nanny state happy one bit. Messenger will begin to offer an end-to-end encryption feature to a limited test group of users today. It’s a security option that’s been a long time coming for Facebook, which has considered making end-to-end encryption available for several months. The so-called “secret conversations”

Workers would be paid $13.50 an hour by 2020 under I-1433.  This is like voting to override the law of gravity. You cannot make low-wage workers more valuable by legislating it. You will either lay low-skilled workers off or replace them with technology.  Supporters of raising the minimum wage in Washington state turned in more

In his speech yesterday, President Obama said that the Minnesota & Louisiana shootings are not isolated.  This was right before the shooting of the white police officers in Dallas.  Do you think President Obama’s rhetoric is helping or hurting race relations in the US?  President Barack Obama called on American law enforcement to root out

Some local Moscow news.  Convicted murderer John Lee claims in a recently filed notice of appeal that he suffered psychological torture and was denied mental health treatment during his stay at the Latah County Jail — factors which affected his decision-making abilities and led him to take a plea deal he didn’t want. Lee was

Idaho 1st District Congressman Raul Labrador, who will be going to the national GOP convention in Cleveland as a Ted Cruz delegate, called today for Donald Trump to choose Cruz as his running mate. Labrador said that would take “the two guys who got about 70 percent of the votes in just about every primary,

Bernie Sanders will endorse Hillary Clinton for president next week, the New York Times reported Thursday. Sanders, who kept up his presidential campaign even as Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee, will back her at a campaign event Tuesday in New Hampshire, the report said. Sanders on Thursday signaled he is close to a formal