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Man sentenced for fatal DUI crash that killed his wife Share This Joshua Lee Kion | Lemhi County Jail SALMON — A judge has ordered a Salmon man to spend time in jail after a DUI crash killed his wife last year. Joshua Lee Kion, 30, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor DUI and misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter on March 23. Magistrate Judge Andrew Woolf ordered Kion to serve 43 days in jail, followed by four years of probation. As part of a plea agreement made with prosecutors, his original charges were reduced from felonies to misdemeanors. Kion’s charges stem from an Oct. 26 crash on U.S Hig...

Local hospitals still pinched by COVID-19 KIFI/KIDK IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK)-The Eastern Idaho Public Health Board learned Thursday, that the spread of COVID-19 differed considerably throughout the region over the past week.   The district saw a record 312 new cases on Wednesday alone. Teton Valley Health in Driggs and Steele Memorial in Salmon both reported no COVID-19 cases as of Thursday morning.   In Salmon, which was in a much different situation 4 weeks ago, officials believe people are beginning to take the virus more seriously because there have been so many deaths in the com...