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Pocatello settles lawsuit for $1.6M with man paralyzed in 2020 police shooting
POCATELLO — The insurance provider for the city recently paid $1.6 million to settle a lawsuit that a former local resident filed after he was left paralyzed when police shot him five times during a 2020 incident near the Red Lion Hotel. Pocatello’s insurance provider, Idaho Counties Risk Management Program, or ICRMP, on Sept. 19 paid $1.6 million to the Utah-based law firm Christensen & Jensen to settle a lawsuit that was filed on behalf of former Pocatello resident Jake Lee Sheeler, 32, in federal...
Idaho Fish and Game investigating after several animal carcasses found near Aberdeen
On October 11, Idaho Fish and Game District Conservation Officer Tim Klucken received calls regarding several carcasses and wasted meat from both mule deer and elk found in Game Management Unit 68 in the Big Desert near Aberdeen. Officer Klucken’s investigation took him to Winters Road just north of Crystal Ice Cave Road directly west of Aberdeen where he found the heads and hides from both mule deer does and fawns and wasted meat from one mule deer and one elk. ...