High-speed pursuit ends at the inbound connector

Two people have been taken into custody after leading police on a high speed pursuit.
The chase ended just before 8 a.m. on the bridge at the inbound connector.
Idaho State Police say they were attempting a routine traffic stop when the pursuit started.
Ada County, Meridian and Boise Police joined in to help with the pursuit.
Dispatchers say, at this time, they don't know why the suspect was running from police.
Eastbound traffic was reduced to two lanes headed towards downtown, but has since been re-opened.
Stay with us on KTVB.COM and the News at Noon for the latest details.

Two overnight robberies in Nampa possibly connected

Nampa Police are investigating two overnight robberies they say could possibly be connected.
Police say after 1 a.m., a man, wearing a ski mask, entered a Jackson's Convenience Store on 11th Avenue North.
The clerk told officers the man showed a gun and demanded money.
The suspect then forced the cashier into a freezer and took off with the cash.
Nampa Police are also searching for the man who robbed a motel at gunpoint.
Officers say just before 4 a.m., a male suspect, wearing a ski mask, entered the Super 8 motel on the 600 block of Nampa Boulevard across from Denny's.
Police say he showed a gun and demanded money. He then forced a female clerk to go in a back room, so he could escape out the front door.
Dispatchers say this robbery appears to be related to the armed robbery earlier this morning at the Jackson's, as well as a robbery at the Shilo Inn early yesterday morning. In all cases, the suspect was wearing a ski mask, and forced the clerks into a back room so he could escape.
If you have any information about these robberies, call Nampa Police at 465-2257.

Armed robbery at Super 8

Nampa Police are also searching for the man that robbed a motel at gunpoint.
Officers say just before 4 a.m. a male suspect wearing a ski mask entered the Super 8 motel on the 600 block of Nampa Boulevard across from Denny's.
Police say he showed a gun and demanded money. He then forced a female clerk to go in a back room so he could escape out the front door.
Dispatchers say this robbery appears to be related to the armed robbery earlier this morning at the Jackson's Convenience Store, as well as a robbery at the Shilo Inn early yesterday morning.
If you have any information about these robberies call Nampa Police at 465-2257.

Armed robbery at Jackson's

This morning Nampa police are investigating an overnight armed robbery. Officers tell us a masked man walked into the Jacksons on 11th Ave. N., displayed a gun and demanded cash. The clerk told police that he shoved the cashier into a freezer before taking off.

Nampa Police search for armed robbery suspect

Nampa Police are searching for the suspect involved in an armed robbery overnight.
It happened around 3 a.m. at the Shilo Inn hotel on the 1400 block of Shilo Drive, off of Franklin Boulevard.
Officers say a man wearing a ski mask entered the hotel office, showed a handgun, and demanded money.
The suspect then forced the clerk into a back room and fled with an undisclosed amount of money.
Witnesses describe the suspect as 5'11'' wearing a blue pullover jacket.
If you have any information about this armed robbery you are asked to call Nampa Police at 465-2257.

Overnight fire scorches Nampa business

An overnight fire caused one business quite the scare.
Flames sparked around 1 a.m. at the Tri State Marine on the 1600 block of Industrial road.
Fire officials tell us the business did not have an automatic alarm.
They say an officer driving around in the area noticed smoke coming from the roof and called the fire department.
Firefighters quickly arrived and put out the blaze.
Officers say the damage was contained to a workshop, and that the business should be up and running today.

Fatal ATV accident in the Boise foothills

The Ada County Sheriff's Department is investigating a fatal all-terrain vehicle accident.
It happened near the 8th Street Extension in the Boise foothills.
Dispatchers say they're not sure when the accident happened, but it was discovered around 9 a.m..
Stay with us on KTVB.COM and the News at Noon for the latest details.

Fatal rollover accident in Nampa

We're following an accident on Highway 20/26.
Officers say sometime last night a Jeep with two people inside rolled over and ended up in a dry canal.
The accident was discovered around 8 a.m.
The Canyon County Sheriff's office says when they arrived they found the driver dead, still wearing a seatbelt.
The passenger was semi-conscious and was transported to a local hospital with injuries and possible hypothermia.
Although the canal was technically dry, the Jeep was resting in some residual water.
Stay tuned on KTVB.COM and the News at Noon for the latest details.

Nampa rollover fatality

We're following an accident on Highway 20/26.
Officers say sometime last night a Jeep with two people inside rolled over and ended up in a dry canal.
The accident was discovered around 8 a.m.
The Canyon County Sheriff's office says when they arrived they found the driver dead, still wearing a seatbelt.
The passenger was semi-conscious and was transported to a local hospital with injuries and possible hypothermia.
Although the canal was technically dry, the Jeep was resting in some residual water.
Stay tuned on KTVB.COM and the News at Noon for the latest details.

Boise firefighters on the scene of a house fire

Boise Fire crews are investigating a house fire.
Flames sparked around 7:30 a.m. on the 2000 block of North Fry Street.
Firefighters quickly responded to the scene and put out the blaze.
Dispatchers say no one was injured.
Stay with us on KTVB.COM and on the News at Noon for the latest details.

Flames spark at a Nampa home

Fire forced a Nampa family from their home.
The flames sparked around 1 a.m. on the 13-hundred block of East Amity Avenue.
Firefighters tell us the family came home and discovered their house was on fire.
They evacuated and called police.
The fire caused extensive heat and smoke damage to the home.
The cause of that fire is under investigation.
Stay tuned on KTVB.COM and Today's Morning News for the latest details on this story.

Police investigating report of shots fired

Boise Police are searching for a man who fired one shot in a home early this morning.
Dispatchers received a call from the 19-hundred block of Ancestor around 2 a.m.
Witnesses say 20-year-old Amber Young entered the followed by a masked man who threatened a group of people inside, then fired a shot.
No one was injured in the shooting.
The man ran when police arrived and has not been located.
Police arrested Young and charged her with kidnapping for holding the people inside the home against their will.
Stay with us on KTVB.COM and the News at Noon for the latest details on this story.

Nampa Police looking for armed robbery suspects

Nampa Police are looking for three male suspects who robbed a convenience store at gunpoint.
It happened around 3:30 a.m. at the Maverick on the 700 block of 12th Avenue Road.
Police say three men entered the store and pointed the gun at the clerk demanding money.
The suspects then fled the store on foot with the cash.
Witnesses describe the suspects as three males in their 20's.
One suspect was approximately 6 feet tall wearing a blue short sleeve shirt and jeans.
The second was approximately 5'6"' wearing a checkered long sleeve shirt and jeans. The third suspect was in a gray shirt and jeans.
If you have any information about this robbery you are asked to call Nampa Police at 465-2233.

Boy on bike hit by car

Paramedics rushed a 12-year-old boy to Saint Alphonsus Medical Center with life-threatening injuries after he was hit by a GMC Yukon on his way to school.
Dispatchers say it happened just before 7 a.m. at the intersection of Malad and Owyhee, just off of Vista.
Officers say the driver did not see the boy when she turned onto Malad Street.
The accident is still under investigation.

Boy on bike hit by car

Boise Police report a 12 year old boy riding a bike was hit by an SUV just before 7 a.m. this morning. It happened on Owyhee Street near Malad. The boy was rushed to St. Al's with life threatening injuries.

Washington Amber Alert canceled

An Amber Alert for two children taken in a carjacking in Arlington, Washington, has been canceled.
An officer on patrol this morning in Marysville, Washington found the minivan that had been carjacked with two young children inside. The kids, four-year-old Abigail Sobania and two-year-old Caleb Sobania were still in the van and O-K. They've been
reunited with their mother at the police station in Arlington.
The suspect is still at large.
According to our sister station KING in Seattle, he is described as a white male in his 30s, between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-10, with a shaved head, slight goatee and wearing a navy blue or black hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.

Fire at Boise coffee shop

The Boise Fire Department is investigating an early morning fire at a Moxie Java on Overland Road, near the Edwards 21 Cinemas.
The fire started at about 4:30 a.m. Dispatchers say no one was inside at the time.

Missing Hunter in Custer County

The search is on for a Boise man who is missing. 53-year-old William Helffrich was last seen on Monday. His wife says he was hunting in the Washington Peak Quadtrangle, in the area of Strawberry Basin and Mountain Home Canyon, about 6 to 12 miles north of Galena. She says he was supposed to call Sunday night but she never heard from him.
His car was found 9 miles up Fourth of July Creek Road.
Rescue Crews have searched the area from the air as well as using motorcycles and horses.
Crews plan to resume searching this morning.

ISP looking for suspect involved in high-speed pursuit

Canyon County Sheriff's Department arrested a man after he lead them on a high speed chase.
It started on Highway 44 around 6 a.m., and ended just after 6:30 a.m.
Officers closed the highway for a short time, but have since re-opened the road.
Dispatchers will not confirm it is the same suspect that lead police on a chase earlier this morning.
However they do tell us that the driver in custody matches the description of the earlier suspect.
Earlier this morning, troopers attempted to pull a man over after 2 a.m. at the intersection of Middleton and Ustick after he failed to stop.
That's when morning's first pursuit began.
That chase ended with the driver crashing a green Cadillac, and taking off on foot.

Jury selection in Duncan case cancelled; plea deal possible

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Fox News Channel is reporting a possible plea deal reached in the Joseph Duncan triple murder trial.

Fox offered no attribution for the report.

NewsChannel 7 has learned the Kootenai Co. Sheriff's Office has cancelled jury selection - originally set to begin this morning. Capt. Ben Wolfinger says he attended a meeting with First District Judge Fred Gibler on Sunday, who called a court hearing at 9am Monday morning.

KREM News Spokane has also called several sources and victim's family members. However, they say they are under a court-issued gag order.

Duncan is accused of killing Brenda and Slade Groene, and family friend Mark McKenzie in their North Idaho home last year.

He is also accused of kidnapping Dylan and Shasta Groene, and killing Dylan in the remote Montana wilderness. Shasta was found with Duncan at a North Idaho restaurant several weeks after her alleged kidnapping.

Kootenai County prosecutor Bill Douglas has repeatedly rejected attempts at plea deals - as recently as last Wednesday, according to defense attorneys.

An unprecedented 800 potential jurors had been summoned for the jury selection.

Duncan faces the death penalty on the Idaho charges.

Federal prosecutors are expected to file charges against Duncan in the abduction of Shasta and Dylan, and the slaying of Dylan at a later date.

Stay with KTVB.COM for the late-breaking details overnight.

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More than a dozen quakes hit Hawaii

Two quakes shook Hawaii in the 11am MDT hour Sunday. According to the USGS, a 6.6 shook quake 6 miles north-northwest of the big island of Hawaii at 7:07am Hawaii time. Seven minutes later, a 5.8 magnitude aftershock hit. At least 12 other aftershocks shook the island state.

The quake is the second largest in Hawaii's recorded history.

MSNBC reports wide-spread power outages and downed phone lines. Hawaii's civil defense system has been activated, and officials are asking people to stay at home.

Governor Linda Lingle told KSSK radio that there are no reports of fatalities.

A landslide has blocked a major highway on the big island of Hawaii - the main route in that area.

KITV-TV reports that several people are stuck in elevators due to power outages. 95% of customers on Oahu are without electricity.

Researchers were still trying to ascertain how many aftershocks struck and how large.

"There's always a possibility of an even bigger earthquake coming. It's a small chance, but it's one that's much greater at the moment than if these earthquakes hadn't happened," John Vindale, the director of the Pacific NW Seismic Network told MSNBC.

An official with the National Earthquake Information Center says there is no risk of a Pacific-wide tsunami, but a possibility of significant wave activity in Hawaii.

One eyewitness on the island said the earthquake lasted for nearly a minute.

“I felt a rumbling, and the thing just started building and building, and got more powerful and stronger, “ Ken Hupp, news director for KPUA told MSNBC. “Usually these things are pretty short in duration, but this one seemed like it lasted for about 45 seconds. The place was shaking like crazy. My animals were just absolutely terrified.”

Betsy Garties, who lives in North Kohala, on the northern tip of Hawaii Island said she was lying in bed with one of her two young children when the quake struck.

"First I heard a rumbling. Then the house started to shake. Then broken glass," Garties said. She first stood under a door frame as safety experts advise, then found that too wobbly for comfort and ran into the yard.

"It was strong enough that it was wobbling, so you almost lost your balance running out into the yard," Garties said. "The house was visibly rocking."

A USGS seismologist does not believe this will lead to an increased risk of volcanic activity.

"I would not expect this to cause any sort of significant eruptions as it doesn't appear to be directly related to the volcano itself," John Bellini with USGS said.

This is possibly the largest quake in Hawaii since 1983 according to KITV.

Stay with KTVB.COM

Armed robbery suspect arrested

Nampa Police arrested an armed robbery suspect and recovered the stolen cash.
The robbery happened just after 11 p.m. last night at the Sonic Drive In on 12th Street.
Employees told police the suspect, dressed in black and wearing a ski mask, showed them a knife, demanded money, and fled.
Minutes later an officer stopped a 17-year-old matching the description just blocks away.
The teen was identified as the suspect.
He is charged with armed robbery and is in the Canyon County Juvenile Detention Center.

Overnight car accident sends local teen to the hospital

A Boise teen is in serious condition this morning after he was involved in an overnight car accident.
It happened around 1 a.m. near the intersection of Columbus and Targee.
Witnesses say they saw two cars racing around for several hours.
Police say a blue colored car was traveling at a high rate of speed when the driver lost control. The car skidded through an intersection and smashed into a telephone pole.
The passenger was transported to Saint Alphonsus Medical Center with what paramedics are calling life-threatening injuries.
The driver was not seriously injured.

Power outage

Idaho Power crews are working to restore electricity to 167 homes.
This after a problem with the transformer caused a few power lines to burn through.
It happened just after 6 a.m. on the 2500 block of Bella street in Boise.
Outages range from Bella Street to Anderson, and from 24th Street to 26th.
A crew is on the scene making repairs to the lines.
Dispatchers say they hope to have power restored to those homes as soon as possible.

Fatal car accident

Police believe drugs and or alcohol may be a factor in a fatal car crash that killed two people.
The crash happened on Highway 55, just north of Banks at milepost 70.
Idaho State Police troopers say one truck was involved in that crash around 9:30 p.m.
Two people died at the scene.
Two others were life-flighted to Saint Alphonsus Medical Center.
Troopers say that all those involved were under the age of 20.
Highway 55 was closed for more than four hours.

Crews respond to reports of a car trapped in a rock slide

Boise County dispatchers says rescue crews are responding to reports of rock slide that has trapped a car along highway 55 north of Banks.

There is at least one person reportedly trapped inside the car. No word yet if the rock slide has shut down the highway.

Stay tuned to KTVB.COM for updated information.

Meridian structure fire

An overnight fire engulfed a Meridian home under construction.
It happened on the 37-hundred block of High Grove Lane.
Flames broke out just before 12:30 a.m.
When firefighters arrived the remodeled home was fully involved.
Firefighters said no one was at the home when the fire broke out.

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2400 Idaho Power customers in the dark

Right now Idaho Power says that some 2400 customers are without power. The outage is near Cloverdale Road west to Locust Grove, and near State Street south to McMillan.
Dispatchers tell us a bird flew into power lines and started a fire. Crews expect to repair those lines until 9 a.m.

Fire guts mobile home and abandoned building

A two alarm fire ripped through an abandoned building and a mobile home. The fire broke out at just after 11:40 p.m. at 9907 W. Chinden Blvd.
Fire investigators say no one was in the mobile home at the time of the fire.
The cause is under investigation.

2 Alarm Fire Guts Structures

A two alarm fire ripped through an abandoned building and a mobile home. The fire broke out at just after 11:40 p.m. at 9907 W. Chinden Blvd.
Fire investigators say no one was in the mobile home at the time of the fire.
The cause is under investigation.

Boise police are investigating a robbery that happened around 9:30 last night.
Officers say they were called to 1711 W. Bannock where the delivery man said two men confronted him, demanding the pizza and money.
Police say the victim handed it over and the two men ran down an alley.
Officers say witnesses described the two as only males, one white and the other possibly hispanic.

Armed robbery at Boise pizza shop

This morning Boise Police are investigating an armed robbery at a pizza shop.
Dispatchers tell us it happened at 9-41 p-m Sunday night at the Idaho Pizza Company near the intersection of Overland and Roosevelt.
Police say the robber displayed a handgun and demanded money.
They are still looking for a suspect.
A witness described him as a white male, about 50 to 60 years old - weighing about 200-pounds with reddish gray hair and a full, short beard.
Police say he was wearing a dark shirt.
If you have any information - call Crimestoppers at 343-COPS (2677).