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The FBI has arrested an 18-year-old in Idaho after uncovering his “truly horrific” and “violent plot” to attack churches in Coeur d’Alene this past weekend on behalf of ISIS, the Justice Department says. Alexander Mercurio is now facing a federal charge of attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization after the FBI says he …

Two members of an Idaho white supremacist prison gang, including an inmate and the man accused of helping him escape in an armed ambush at a Boise hospital, are due in court for a preliminary hearing Monday, along with a woman accused of providing a vehicle they used during 36 hours on the run. The inmate, Skylar Meade, and Nicholas …

An Idaho judge on Thursday criticized murder suspect Byran Kohberger’s defense team for a questionnaire they sent to approximately 400 local residents — and possible jurors — who could preside over the case. John Judge’s harsh remarks come as an attorney for Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in their Moscow home in November 2022, …

Most people don’t like spam calls. Bryan Kohberger’s lead lawyer has accused the public of bias against her client, who is suspected of killing four University of Idaho students, after Latah County residents called police to report a defense expert had contacted them for a survey. “The afternoon filing on March 22, 2024 was done with the intention of obtaining …

Chad Daybell, husband of “cult mom” Lori Vallow, is set to stand trial in Idaho this week for the murders of his wife’s two children and his first wife in 2019. The pair is at the center of multiple murder cases involving not only Vallow’s two children but both her and Chad’s deceased ex-spouses. They were initially scheduled to have …

A fourth person has been charged in connection with an ambush that allowed a white supremacist Idaho prison gang member to escape as he was being discharged from a Boise hospital. Tia J. Garcia, 27, of Twin Falls, owned the car that inmate Skylar Meade and his accomplice, Nicholas Umphenour, fled in after Umphenour shot and wounded two corrections officers …

Bryan Kohberger’s defense team is crying foul after a judge ordered both sides in the Idaho student murders case to stay away from potential jurors ahead of a change-of-venue hearing that could move the upcoming trial out of Latah County, where the slayings happened. “The late Friday afternoon filing was a strategic action by the State,” defense attorney Anne Taylor …

Utah women’s basketball team members were on the receiving end of racial slurs as they were walking from their hotel to a restaurant, an Idaho official said Tuesday. Tony Stewart, who was with the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, said at a news conference that a truck with a Confederate flag drove up near the members and used …

The judge overseeing the murder case against University of Idaho stabbing suspect Bryan Kohberger has barred prosecutors and the defense from contacting potential jurors without express permission from the court. It comes as the 29-year-old criminologist’s defense is hoping for a change of venue from Idaho’s Latah County, a community of about 40,000, where Kohberger allegedly barged into an off-campus …

Former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman remains on the Idaho college murder case as the mystery-shrouded saga continues with suspected killer Bryan Kohberger’s fate resting in the hands of the justice system. But Kohberger – and his motives – largely remain a mystery. Fuhrman set out to unmask him bit by bit in three new Fox Nation series about the Idaho …