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LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A gang member who killed a University of Idaho football player and wounded two other people in Los Angeles is going to prison for life. City News Service says John Kennedy of Long Beach was sentenced to 173 years to life for second-degree murder and other crimes. Prosecutors say Kennedy fatally shot University of Idaho wide receiver Ken McRoyal of Carson during a party in 2012.
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park officials are asking for public comment on a plan to remove nonnative brook trout from Soda Butte Creek in order to reintroduce genetically pure native cutthroat trout. The plan calls for removing brook trout by applying an EPA-approved fish poison to Soda Butte Creek upstream of Ice Box Canyon and then restoring native trout.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A northern Idaho couple and an environmental group have sued the U.S. Forest Service over its decision to designate a road as public and opening it to trucks for a logging project on state land. The lawsuit contends the Forest Service made the decision without proper environmental analysis of the impact on the Selway Wild and Scenic River corridor.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter has selected former state Sen. Bob Geddes as the new director of the Department of Administration. Geddes replaces former Director Teresa Luna, who resigned shortly after a district court ruled that the agency's $60 million school broadband contract was illegal.
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