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Locally Made Movie Premiers Tonight!

Locally Made Movie Premiers Tonight!

After months of shooting and editing a local filmmaker is ready to premiere her latest movie, The Merry Graingers.

The movie, produced and directed by Serena Belsby, is about a feuding family finding peace in the midst of tragedy.

The world premiere of the movie is set for tonight at 7 pm at the Bing Crosby Theater at 901 W Sprague. 

Staying true to the roots of the film, a hay carpet will take the place of the traditional red carpet.

Tickets are $13. For more information check out the official movie website.

Idaho man arrested for '95 California double homicide

17 years after two people were killed in California in 1995, 40-year-old Christian Leonard Bunty was arrested Tuesday near Sandpoint for the killings.

Barstow detectives have suspected him all this time. While they don't think he acted alone, Barstow police do think Bunty was involved in a rip-off drug deal and two murders.

Detectives say the victims, Mark Adamson and Joseph Riley, thought they were going to buy an ingredient for meth; instead they were shot and killed.

video In 1995, Bunty ended up in trouble for breaking another law. He and two other men were impersonating FBI agents, carrying out bogus raids to rob drug houses. He struck a plea, got credit for time served and during probation moved to Idaho.

In the meantime, the disappearance of Adamson and Riley went unsolved. Detectives never recovered the victims' bodies but put together what happened.

"Our investigation has shown that Bunty and Franklin lured Adamson and Riley to a location in the desert where they were shot and killed and buried in what was a pre-dug hole," Barstow Police Detective Keith Libby said.

Task force tracking sex offenders across Idaho panhandle

A Sandpoint man has been arrested, accused of possessing child pornography.�

Jerry Horner, 48, was arrested last week when investigators found illegal videos on his external hard drive.

The North Idaho Sex Offender Watch Task Force has been investigating Horner since May and found enough evidence to put him behind bars. He now faces charges of possession of child pornography and offering to share child pornography using a shared folder, after the task force determined something illegal was happening online through a file sharing network.

video "It allows someone to download files from another computer. He had allegedly, at least at this point, was using the program to download child pornography," Josh Studor with the Kootenai County Prosecutor's Office said.

A search warrant was executed last week and that's when investigators found an external hard drive with illegal videos. Videos like this can be downloaded from many different places. The children in those videos are not local, but some kids have been identified by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

N. Idaho residents worried about bedraggled moose

Northern Idaho officials said they will allow nature to takes its course concerning a cow moose that has triggered hundreds of calls from residents concerned about the moose's cumulative injuries.

The Bonner County Daily Bee reports that the moose lost an eye at some point and also has a rear leg that doesn't work after getting tangled in barbed wire last winter.

Idaho Fish and Game conservation officer Matt Haag freed the moose from the wire that cut to the bone. This fall he has received calls after the moose showed up in Kootenai.

Haag said the moose appears relatively healthy despite the old injuries and seems to be making a living.

He said winter might get her, but she's a tough old moose that might surprise everybody.

Woman sentenced for helping hide victim's body

A northern Idaho woman who helped her husband conceal the body of a murder victim has been sentenced to two years in prison.

The Bonner County Daily Bee reports that Jennifer Dunnagan Thrasher, 23, was sentenced Monday in 1st District Court.

Thrasher was charged as an accessory to the killing of Michael Wyatt Smith, 19, after telling authorities she helped bury Smith's body in a makeshift grave in a remote area. Police said her now-estranged husband, Austin Blake Thrasher, 20, shot and killed Smith in September 2011 in a romantic rivalry over a 16-year-old girl.

Austin Thrasher faces a first-degree murder charge, but that case is on hold while he's evaluated to determine if he's able to assist in his own defense.

Nampa man hikes 1,100 miles: 'I was looking to do something big'

Tom Oord loves pushing his body.

He absolutely loves the push.

The professor of theology and philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa also enjoys time to think, periods of reflection and opportunities to ponder all of life's wonders. As a married father of three teen girls, Oord, is no surprise, a busy man.

So, in the spring of 2010, Oord sought out for a challenge. He needed to be tested physically, but he also wanted a period of self reflection - a spiritual journey. He wanted to explore and photograph the state he's grown to love.

"I was looking to do something big," Oord said. "I wanted to know my state. I wanted to feel like I had roots here and see the landscapes."

With that inspiration, Oord found himself in the midst of planning Idaho's Centennial Trail. It's a grueling 900 miles beginning at the Idaho/Nevada border that winds itself through desert, forests, rivers, high mountain lakes and finishes at the Canadian border.









Bonner County sues amid bid to delist caribou

A northern Idaho county and a snowmobile group sued the U.S. Department of Interior in federal court, the latest step in their bid to have Endangered Species Act protections lifted from rare woodland caribou that roam the U.S-Canadian border region.

Bonner County and the Idaho State Snowmobile Association filed their complaint Thursday in U.S. District Court.

They're being represented by the Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative legal group.

Their complaint contends U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has failed to act on their petition lodged earlier this year contending the caribou were improperly given ESA protections starting in 1983.

They want Salazar to make a decision on the petition - and to pay for their lawsuit.

Four caribou were counted south of the Canadian border during an aerial census last winter.