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Rescuers Getting Closer to Trapped Idaho Miner
By not in system - AOL NewsMULLAN, 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 Company spokeswoman Melanie Hennessey said early Monday. ...
Machine Arrives to Aid Rescuers at Idaho Mine
By not in system - AOL NewsMULLAN, 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, according to Hecla Mining Company officials. Officials said the machine should be underground by Sunday evening, but it was unclear how soon the process of reassembling the device would be finished or when rescuers would be able to put it to work. The roof of a tunnel at ...
Rescuers Search for Missing Miner After Collapse at Idaho Silver Mine
By not in system - AOL NewsMULLAN, 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 employees were working. One worker escaped without injuries, but there's been no contact with the other, whose condition was unknown. The missing miner's name was not released. KHQ-TV / AP People stand at the entrance to the Lucky Friday Mine in Mullan, Idaho, on ...
Judge Blocks Deal on Protections for Wolves
By not in system - AOL NewsBOISE, 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 have led to public hunting of some 1,300 wolves in the two states. In the 24-page decision, Molloy cited the court's lack of authority to put part of an endangered species population under state management and expose that population to hunting, noting "Congress has clearly ...
Fake Cop? Man Accused of Using Cell Phone App to Pull Over Driver
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsThe 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 officials in Boise received a call from a worried driver who was concerned after being pulled over by a car with flashing lights that didn't look -- or behave -- like a police vehicle, according to the Idaho Statesman. When cops pulled over Welch, police say they found a cell phone ...
Authorities Say Man Persuaded Moms to Sexually Abuse Kids
By not in system - AOL NewsDETROIT -- A Michigan man posed as a psychologist and persuaded mothers across the country to sexually assault their children as a form of therapy, then send him the images of the attacks, authorities said Monday. Since authorities arrested him in October, seven children were rescued and at least three mothers have been arrested. Prosecutors say all of the children are now safe. Steven Demink, 41, of Redford Township, Mich., appeared in federal court in Detroit to enter his plea on six charges related to the sexual exploitation of children. Seven charges were dropped as part of a plea ...
Auburn Tree Poisoning and 5 Other Pranks Born of College Rivalries
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsCollege rivalries are the stuff of legend, but some Southern football fans may have taken things too far with a recent prank. A University of Alabama fan stands accused of poisoning -- yes, poisoning -- 130-year-old trees at Toomer's Corner, a famous intersection where the Auburn University campus meets the town. A man was arrested in connection with the stunt, which first came to the public's attention after someone called into a sports radio show and claimed that he had poisoned the trees because of a long-standing Auburn-Alabama grudge. Soon after, officials confirmed that the trees had ...
Enrico Ponzo: 5 Facts on the Accused Mobster Nabbed on an Idaho Ranch
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsOnce a city slicker, always a city slicker. Enrico Ponzo, an alleged mobster on the run from the FBI, was arrested Monday at a ranch in rural Marsing, Idaho, where he'd been living under the alias "Jay Shaw." Marsing residents said they'd always had a few suspicions about "Jay," who was remarkably skilled with firearms and remarkably bad at ranching. Ponzo is being held without bail until a hearing Friday. Surge Desk has five facts on the man who didn't get away. 1. He's charged with attempted murder Ponzo was allegedly involved with the New England mafia in the 1980s. Authorities say he ...
Feds: Fugitive Mobster Found Living in Rural Idaho
By not in system - AOL NewsMARSING, Idaho -- To his neighbors, he was Jay Shaw, the guy with the vaguely New York accent. He was known for fixing computers, buying everything with cash, raising cows and knowing how to handle a gun. To the FBI, he was a New England mobster who vanished in 1994 after a botched attempt to whack his boss. On Wednesday, the 42-year-old dark-haired man, dressed in a yellow jumpsuit and his hands cuffed behind his back, strolled into a courtroom in Boise, sat down at a table and spoke calmly to a judge. "My name is Enrico M. Ponzo," he said. After the judge read a long list of charges ...
Idaho Woman Claims $190M Mega Millions Prize
By not in system - AOL NewsRATHDRUM, Idaho - A northern Idaho woman has claimed the remaining half of a $380 million Mega Millions jackpot, Idaho Lottery officials said Wednesday. Holly Lahti, a 29-year-old mother of two from the small town of Rathdrum, will split the second-largest lottery jackpot in history with Jim and Carolyn McCullar of Ephrata, Wash. The McCullars appeared at a news conference last Thursday to announce they'd won half the jackpot, or $190 million. Lahti wasn't on hand for Wednesday's announcement in Boise. "She's requested that the media respect her privacy and not attempt to contact her until ...
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