One dead after crash on Highway 21

One person is dead after a crash near the Ada-Boise county line. At about 10:30 p.m. Friday, two vehicles collided head-on on State Highway 21 at milepost 19. A driver in a black and white Ford F150 pickup, going southbound on SH 21, was attempting to pass another vehicle, also going southbound on SH 21. While attempting to pass, the black and white Ford hit a green Ford pickup that was going northbound head on. The driver of the green Ford was transported to St Alphonsus Hospital and released. The driver of the black and white Ford was pronounced dead at the scene. The victim was not wearing a seat belt. The driver of the green Ford was wearing a seat belt. Idaho State Police are investigating the crash. Names of the involved subjects are being withheld pending notification of family members.

Two-vehicle crash on Highway 16

Two vehicles have collided on Highway 16 north of Firebird Raceway. Life Flight was called to transport injured. Traffic is being diverted. A NewsChannel Seven crew has just arrived at the scene. More information to come shortly.

Shed fire in Middleton

Fire crews from Middleton quickly mopped up a shed fire on the 12-thousand block of Shady Lane, across from the Middleton cemetery. Flames fully engulfed the tack shed and threatening a nearby trailer. Firefighters quickly doused those flames before they could do any more damage. Dispatchers say no one was injured. That fire is under investigation.

Middleton fire

Fire crews from Middleton and Caldwell are mopping up after a shed fire on the 12-thousand block of Shady Lane, across from the Middleton cemetery. Flames fully engulfed the shed and threatening a nearby trailer. Firefighters quickly doused those flames before they could do any more damage. Dispatchers say no one was injured.

Shots fired in Caldwell

Caldwell Police are investigating yet another report of shots fired this morning.
Dispatchers say it happened around 4 a.m. on the 400 block of Crescent Drive.
Officers say a suspect fired one or more shots at a residence. A 12-year-old girl was struck by flying debris. Paramedics treated her at the scene.

Meridian Power Outage

A transformer fire left 1400 people in the dark last night.
Police say the fire flared up at 10:30 p.m. near East Barbara Drive and Fairview in Meridian.
Firefighters arrived and put the flames out within minutes.
Power outages ranged from Ustick South to the Meridian Speedway, and from Locust Grove West to Meridian.
Idaho Power restored electricity to all those homes by 3 a.m.

Shots fired in Caldwell

Caldwell Police are looking for a suspect who fired several shots at a home.
It happened around 4 this morning on the the 2-thousand block of Blaine Street.
Officers say the shots came from the alley behind the residence.
No one was injured in the incident.

Shuttle Atlantis lands safely in Florida

Associated Press
HOUSTON - Space shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts glided to a safe landing in darkness early Thursday, ending a mission to the international space station whose smooth success was briefly upstaged by the high drama caused by mysterious floating debris.

“Glad to be back. It was a great team effort so I think assembly is off to a good start,” said commander Brent Jett immediately after touchdown at Kennedy Space Center at 6:21 a.m. EDT.

The landing was a day later than planned because NASA ordered up more inspections of the spacecraft’s delicate skin to make sure it was safe to come home. The fear was that one of the mysterious objects might have hit the shuttle.

“We’ve seen a new standard in NASA vigilance,” said shuttle program manager Wayne Hale.

After numerous cameras above and below, some of them maneuvered robotically by the shuttle astronauts, NASA proclaimed the spacecraft damage-free.

The unplanned drama threatened to overshadow what had been a nearly flawless mission filled with strenuous spacewalks and rigorous robotics work that placed the international space station back on a path to completion after a 3½-year hiatus.

NASA officials said their best guess was that the most worrisome object was a plastic filler placed in between thermal tiles which protect the shuttle from blasting heat. Four other pieces of debris, including a possible garbage bag, floated near the shuttle over the next day.

Atlantis’ return avoided a near traffic jam at the space station, as a Russian Soyuz spacecraft arrived at the space station less than two days after Atlantis had departed.

It was the 21st landing in darkness of 114 successful landings.

The Atlantis mission was the first of 15 tightly scheduled flights needed to finish constructing the half-built space lab by 2010.

The shuttle delivered a 17½-ton truss addition with two massive solar arrays that opened like gleaming golden wings. The solar panels will eventually provide a quarter of the station’s power when it is finished in 2010.

In three highly choreographed spacewalks, astronauts hooked up cables, removed bolts and opened up a radiator over the solar arrays. NASA had described the 11-day schedule as one of the busiest and most challenging ever for a shuttle crew.

“We’re back in the assembly business,” said Hale. “We achieved a new record in assembling a new component in a minimum number of spacewalks.”

NASA and its international partners of Russia, Europe, Canada and Japan must finish building the space station before the U.S. space agency ends the shuttle program in 2010 with plans to return to the moon in a new vehicle. The massive, 25-year-old shuttles are the only spaceships large enough to haul construction parts to the space lab.

The next shuttle flight in the construction sequence is set for December.

Before Atlantis’ mission, the space station hadn’t been expanded since late 2002. The Columbia disaster in 2003 grounded the three remaining shuttles for two years, and NASA devoted another year trying to figure out how to keep insulation foam from falling off the space shuttle’s external tank — the problem that doomed Columbia and its seven astronauts.

The Atlantis astronauts started work right away upon arriving at the space station last week.

The massive $372 million addition was handed from one giant robotic arm to another — from the shuttle to the space station.

Astronauts Joe Tanner and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper served as cosmic electricians and carried out two of the mission’s three challenging spacewalks. Dan Burbank and Steve MacLean of the Canadian Space Agency performed the other. Both teams lost a few bolts.

The mission was bookended by delays. At first, it seemed as if Atlantis never would get off the ground.

The launch was scrubbed four times in two weeks because of a launch pad lightning bolt,

Tropical Storm Ernesto and problems with the electrical system and a fuel gauge.
With all the postponements, NASA negotiated with the Russians to squeeze out one last chance in its launch window. The Russians were worried the trip would interfere with their

Soyuz trip to the space station with a paying customer, Iranian-born space tourist Anousheh Ansari, a Dallas businesswoman. The Soyuz lifted off Monday, just hours after Atlantis had undocked from the space station.

Less than 24 hours after Atlantis undocked, an oxygen generator on the space station overheated and spilled a toxic irritant, forcing the three-man crew to don masks and gloves in the first emergency ever declared aboard the 8-year-old orbiting outpost.

Smoke Scare on the International Space Station

The International Space Station astronauts pulled an alarm and put on protective gear this morning, after smelling a foul odor that turned out to be a vapor leaking from an oxygen vent.
At first the crew reported smoke, but it turned out to be an irritant, potassium hydroxide, which was leaking from the vent.
NASA officials say they don't exactly know the nature of the spill, but it's not a life-threatening material, and the crew is doing very well.

Smoke Scare on the Space Station

The International Space Station astronauts pulled an alarm and put on protective gear this morning after smelling a foul odor that turned out to be an unknown vapor.
According to NASA officials, the three astronauts put on gloves and goggles after noticing, quote, "some kind of vapor, primarily a bad smell."
Initial reports said there was light smoke aboard the orbiting lab, but NASA later confirmed there was never any smoke.

Interstate to be closed so plane can take off

Idaho State Police troopers will close I-84 at milepost 88 near Mountain Home for a time, while a US Forest Service plane uses the Interstate as a runway.

Mechanical problems forced the pilot to make an unscheduled landing last night.

The plane landed safely, and no one was injured. The landing didn't cause any additional damage to the plane, and crews were called to the scene today to repair the initial mechanical problem.

Idaho State Police troopers will close the Interstate for a time so the plane can take off. The exact time of the closure has not been released.

Stay with KTVB.COM for more.

Idaho State Police and Elmore County Sheriff's Deputies are investigating a fatal crash that occurred around 9:45 p.m.
The crash happened on westbound I-84 at milepost 120 near Glenns Ferry.
Police say the accident killed Adrian Cornejo-Ibarra, 24, of Hammett.
Police say his Chevrolet Lumina collided with a tractor trailer.
The driver of the tractor trailer suffered minor injuries.
The accident blocked Westbound lanes for nearly three hours.
Eastbound lanes were restricted to one lane until 1:30 a.m. Stay tuned on Today's Morning News and KTVB.com for the latest details on this story.

Fire at a residence on West Falling Star in Boise burned a shed, a tree and a fence.
It started just after 2 a.m. Boise firefighters were able to stop the fire before it spread to a nearby home.

The Caldwell Fire Department is investigating a truck fire this morning.
A semi truck caught fire just after 4 a.m. outside Idaho Concrete, just off Roedel Avenue.
Police say the driver tried to start the truck's engine when the fire sparked.
Firefighters extinguished the flames before they could reach the truck's large gas tank.

Fire outside Southwest Boise home

Fire at a residence on West Falling Star in Boise burned a shed, a tree and a fence.
It started just after 2 a.m. Boise firefighters were able to stop the fire before it spread to a nearby home.

Semi truck fire in Caldwell

The Caldwell Fire Department is investigating a truck fire this morning.
A semi truck caught fire just after 4 a.m. outside Idaho Concrete, just off Roedel Avenue.
Police say the driver tried to start the truck's engine when the fire sparked.
Firefighters extinguished the flames before they could reach the truck's large gas tank.

Officer Injured

A man could be charged with attempted murder after a routine traffic stop.
It happened around 1 this morning near Fairview and Cole.
Boise police pulled over a car for a possible DUI.
They say while officers talked with the driver outside the car, a passenger got in the driver's seat and tried to drive off.
One officer tried to stop him by grabbing the keys, but instead got trapped.
The passenger dragged the officer for nearly a hundred feet before crashing into some bushes near Cole Elementary.
The officer involved was treated and released from the hospital.

Fatal Motorcycle Accident

Boise Police are investigating a motorcycle accident on the Inbound Connector.
It happened before 1 a.m. Police say a man on his motorcycle collided with a barrier on the Connector and flipped over the other side. Officers say the individual died on the scene. They are not releasing his name at this time.
Stay tuned on Today's Morning News and KTVB.com for the latest updates.

Grandmother arrested after child falls out of car

A Caldwell Grandmother is facing charges this morning in connection with a police pursuit.
Deputies responded to a call of a woman driving with a child in her lap around 7:30 p.m. yesterday near Highway 44 and Interstate 84.
A witness then saw the woman get into a hit and run accident that damaged property.
That witness followed the vehicle until police arrived, there they found the woman and tried to make the arrest.
The woman made a u-turn and at that point, deputies say the 1 year old child fell from the open passenger side door onto the street.
A Canyon County deputy attended to the child and performed c-p-r.
When paramedics arrived, the child was responsive.
Officers then tasered the driver.
Carolynn Boots, 43 is charged with felony injury to a child, resisting arrest and leaving the scene of an accident.
Deputies say the child is her granddaughter.

Grandmother Charged

A Caldwell Grandmother is facing charges this morning in connection with a police pursuit.
Deputies responded to a call of a woman driving with a child in her lap around 7:30 p.m. yesterday near Highway 44 and Interstate 84.
A witness then saw the woman get into a hit and run accident that damaged property.
That witness followed the vehicle until police arrived, there they found the woman and tried to make the arrest.
The woman made a u-turn and at that point, deputies say the 1 year old child fell from the open passenger side door onto the street.
A Canyon County deputy attended to the child and performed c-p-r.
When paramedics arrived, the child was responsive.
Officers then tasered the driver.
Carolynn Boots, 43 is charged with felony injury to a child, resisting arrest and leaving the scene of an accident.
Deputies say the child is her granddaughter.

Grandmother Charged

A Caldwell Grandmother is facing charges this morning in connection with a police persuit.
Deputies responded to a call of a woman driving with a child in her lap around 7:30 p.m. yesterday near Highway 44 and Interstate 84.
A witness then saw the woman get into a hit and run accident that damaged property.
That witness followed the vehicle until police arrived, there they found the woman and tried to make the arrest.
The woman made a u-turn and at that point, deputies say the 1 year old child fell from the open passenger side door onto the street.
A Canyon County deputy attended to the child and performed c-p-r.
When paramedics arrived, the child was responsive.
Officers then tasered the driver.
Carolynn Boots, 43 is charged with felony injury to a child, resisiting arrest and leaving the scene of an accident.
Deputies say the child is her granddaughter.

Grandmother Charged

A Caldwell Grandmother is facing charges this morning in connection with a police pursuit.
Deputies responded to a call of a woman driving with a child in her lap around 7:30 p.m. yesterday near Highway 44 and Interstate 84.
A witness then saw the woman get into a hit and run accident that damaged property.
That witness followed the vehicle until police arrived, there they found the woman and tried to make the arrest.
The woman made a u-turn and at that point, deputies say the 1 year old child fell from the open passenger side door onto the street.
A Canyon County deputy attended to the child and performed c-p-r.
When paramedics arrived, the child was responsive.
Officers then tasered the driver.
Carolynn Boots, 43 is charged with felony injury to a child, resisting arrest and leaving the scene of an accident.
Deputies say the child is her granddaughter.