Silverton News

A 17-year old from Silverton, Idaho shattered a world record. Devin Street says all he wanted to do was qualify for the world championships, so he dead lifted 336-pounds, which is three times his body weight.

Devin Street says all he wanted to do is qualify for the world championships. Instead the 17-year-old from Silverton, Idaho dead lifted an unprecedented 336 pounds, three times his body weight, shattering a world record in the process.

Fire season may be off to a slow start which is giving fire prevention crews in Shoshone County more time to reduce fire dangers around homes and properties thanks to a federally-funded county program.

A 58-year-old registered sex offender from Silverton has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography.

Kenneth Jack Hendryx, 58, of Silverton, Idaho, was sentenced on Tuesday in Coeur d'Alene to 10 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography, the United States Attorney's Office announced.

A 58-year-old registered sex offender from Silverton has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography.

A woman injured when equipment failure killed an Avista Utilities worker in 2007 during an egg drop for a group of schoolchildren has filed suit against the utility and the equipment manufacturer.

The man who killed a Silver Valley, Idaho, couple last year so he and his friends could take the couple's car for a joy ride was ordered Monday to serve 30 years to life in prison.

James C. Mitchell, 48, of Athol, was killed Saturday afternoon when he lost control of his motorcycle on Prichard Creek Road, crossed the center line, and crashed into a pickup driven by Michael W. Ellis, 51, of Silverton.

Women who are newly in love or freshly engaged have a particular smile: at once proud but private, involuntary but adolescent and slightly embarrassing in its flagrance.