The Beat: Weekly News Roundup

Home invader’s 28-year minimum sentence trimmed to 15 years by appeals court
BOISE — The Idaho Court of Appeals has shortened the 28-year minimum sentence of a man who invaded a Hillview family’s home and held the family hostage at gunpoint before being subdued.

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Father Sought In Search For Baby
The Sacramento County Sheriffs Department is asking for help in the search for 8-month-old Kody Kilgore, who was reported missing by his mother in Bend, Ore., the department says.

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The Beat: Weekly news roundup
Lightning strikes The tragic news of a woman struck by lightning recently on Max Patch bald in Madison County is reverberating around the world. In “Woman Killed by Lightning Minutes From Becoming Engaged,” the Asheville Citizen-Times reported that, Richard Butler 30, took his girlfriend, 25-year-old Bethany Lott, to the popular hiking spot “under the guise of a summer afternoon hike.” “The real …

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