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Rescuers Getting Closer to Trapped Idaho Miner

MULLAN, Idaho -- Rescuers are getting closer to a miner trapped in an Idaho silver mine and expect to move faster when a remote-control digger goes into operation later Monday. Crews working around the clock to reach 53-year-old Larry Marek have so far dug through 37 feet of earth in the Lucky Friday Mine, Hecla Mining...

Machine Arrives to Aid Rescuers at Idaho Mine

MULLAN, Idaho - Mining company officials brought in a remote-controlled digging machine Sunday to help try to reach a worker missing since a tunnel collapsed deep inside an Idaho mine. The special digger must be disassembled before being taken more than a mile below the surface, where it will be put back together,...

Rescuers Search for Missing Miner After Collapse at Idaho Silver Mine

MULLAN, Idaho - Rescue teams on Saturday cleared debris from a collapsed tunnel at a northern Idaho silver mine to try to find a miner missing more than a mile underground, officials said. Hecla Mining Co. President Phil Baker said the collapse at the Lucky Friday Mine occurred Friday afternoon close to where two...

Judge Blocks Deal on Protections for Wolves

BOISE, Idaho - A federal judge has denied a proposed settlement agreement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and 10 conservation groups that would have lifted endangered species protections for wolves in Montana and Idaho. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in Missoula on Saturday rejected the agreement that could...

Fake Cop? Man Accused of Using Cell Phone App to Pull Over Driver

The app was on his cell -- and now the suspect is in his cell. Police in Idaho arrested 20-year-old driver Alexander A. Welch on charges of impersonating a police officer after the suspect allegedly pulled over another motorist on Saturday using a cell phone app with flashing red and blue lights. Law enforcement...

Background on Idaho

Idaho () is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. Idaho is the 14th most expansive, the 39th most populous, and the 7th least densely populated of the 50 United States.

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