Packages by drone, shooter wanted to ‘kill him’ — what you may have missed
Tuesday was Election Day, but there was plenty of other news in the Boise area. Here’s a roundup of top stories from the Idaho Statesman.
- Amazon has applied to Nampa for a conditional use permit to build a Prime Air Drone Delivery Center at its East Franklin Road fulfillment center. The hub would serve customers within a 7.5-mile radius covering parts of Nampa, Meridian, Middleton, Star, Kuna and Boise, with the Planning and Zoning Commission set to review the application May 26.
- Prosecutors say Sophia Rains, 21, told officers “I got so pissed, I did want to kill him” after shooting a man in the chest in an alleyway near Boise State University. Rains faces a felony aggravated battery charge plus two misdemeanors, with bail set at $1 million and a potential 15-year prison sentence if convicted.
- New video footage shows a fresh angle of Sunday’s midair collision between two E/A-18G Growler jets at the Mountain Home Air Force Base air show. All four crew members ejected safely, with three uninjured and one treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a Boise-area hospital.
- Southwest Idaho firefighter and retired airline pilot Ed Dickman and his partner Sherry Jones died in a single-engine plane crash in Nevada over the weekend. The aircraft was located about 7.5 miles southwest of Empire, Nevada, as the couple flew back to Idaho from a family event.
- Canyon County officials identified 62-year-old Robert W. Nourse of Nampa as the man found dead in a Caldwell canal near Lake Lowell on Tuesday afternoon. It’s believed that Nourse was fishing in the spillway below the lower dam at Lake Lowell before falling into the water.
- Robert Johns, 65, who was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1980s, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for sexually abusing two children between 2017 and 2019. Judge James Cawthon called his crimes “odious and abominable.”
- Mexican restaurant chain El Semáforo opened its third Nampa location, Taqueria & Birrieria El Semáforo, on May 5 at the Canyon Crossing strip mall. Co-owner Fernando Mora said the chain, which started with a single taco truck in 2022, hopes to expand into Meridian or Boise someday.
- As for the election, all precincts have reported in the 2026 Idaho primary election, with Gov. Brad Little earning a shot at a third term. Follow the link for the final vote totals.
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