Emmett News

Canyon County Coroner Vicki DeGeus-Morris has concluded that the death of a 10-year-old Middleton boy was a tragic accident.

Searchers from local, state and federal agencies are combing the desert between Middleton and Emmett, looking for a lost 10-year old boy.

The search is on for a missing 10 year old boy. Search teams are looking for the boy along Highway 16 South of Emmett.

This thread is for FReepers everywhere to post their anti-Obama bumper stickers, t-shirts, and yard sign pics, and relate their experiences with the same.

TV BREAKING NEWS ALERT Grass Fire Shuts Down Highway 16 at Gem County Line Holiday travellers are advised that Highway 16 is shut down at the Emmett County line in both directions because of a grass fire.

Climbing the "trick ladder" at the Idaho State Yo-Yo Competition, competitors look increasingly like they're caught in a web of yo-yo string.

Around 10:50 pm Friday Idaho State Police responded to a one-vehicle rollover crash westbound on State Highway 52 at milepost 37.5 near Black Canyon Dam, east of Emmett.

New and experienced anglers will get a chance to dip their lines for free this Saturday.

Emmett, Idaho, artist Scott Lundquist and ArtFest attendee Julie Balch are reflected in one of his tin ceiling tile creations in Coeur D'Alene Park on Saturday.

Mike and Helen Williams of Mount Vernon will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Saturday, June 7, 2008.

Two of Gov. C.L. ''Butch'' Otter's appointments to the Legislature since 2007 were ousted in Republican primaries Tuesday.

A Meridian police officer was rushed to the hospital following a fight with a man wanted by Boise Police in connection to a motorhome pursuit. via KIVI

Saturday night, State Police confirmed that a father and two of children were killed in a car accident on the Sweet-Ola Highway, about five miles west of Horseshoe Bend. via 2NEWS.TV

“Most of the kids don't do anything, just staying and talk to friends”

The principal at Emmett Junior High School says having dozens of kids hang outside after school is a dangerous situation. via 2NEWS.TV

“The decision of his mother, Mamie, to have an open-casket funeral fueled a life-long struggle to force America to confront its legacy of enslavement and Southern terrorism”

Chicago playwright Ifa Bayeza's new dramatic work, The Ballad of Emmett Till , billed as "part history and part mystery," makes its world premiere April 26 at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. via Playbill

The brutal murder of a Chicago youth more than 50 years ago is coming to the Goodman Theatre stage. via WBEZ-FM Chicago

“I was reluctant to begin writing this book because I feared it would start the agony I had buried more than 50 years ago”

Media Credit: MCT Campus Let's take a trip back to the past. You are a young child living in Kiev, Ukraine and the year is 1942. via The Arbiter

Shirley Hardisty passed away in her home April 1st. She was 70 years old and was born in Emmett, Idaho, on May 26th, 1937. via Kitsap Sun

“Stuart was an amazing man and will continue to live on in the hearts of those he touched forever”

By WILLIAM PETROSKI * REGISTER STAFF WRITER * April 11, 2008 Funeral services will be in Des Moines today for Maj. via Http

Another Idaho soldier has been killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Major Stuart A. Wolfer, 36, was assigned to the 11th Battalion, 104th Division out of Boise, Idaho. via KIFI