Alan Nygaard News Today

Republican Dan Johnson ran for mayor in Lewiston, Idaho, and won 52 percent of the vote. He is also in his sixth and final term in the state Senate.

As disturbing in recent days as two mass shootings that occurred less than a week apart — claiming the lives of 18 people in two U.S. cities — is the realization that the toll of deaths from guns last year largely escaped our view while we were focused on a pandemic, a presidential campaign and the protests that followed the slayings of Black Americans by police. More Headlines