Idaho
Idaho gas prices inch up
COEUR d’ALENE — According to AAA, Monday’s average price for a gallon of regular in the Gem State was $2.92, which is 3 cents more than a week ago, but 16 cents less than a month ago and 75 cents cheaper than a year ago.
The national average sits at $3.20 per gallon, which is 5 cents more than a week ago and 13 cents more than a month ago, but 22 cents cheaper than a year ago.
Some stations in the Coeur d’Alene area were under $3 a gallon Monday, but most were in the $3.05 to $3.10 range.
Idaho ranks 34th in the country for most expensive fuel. The Gem State’s average is typically 30-50 cents higher than the national average, but today, the reverse is true, AAA said.
“Gasoline demand is rising, and inventories are shrinking, creating upward pressure on prices across the nation,” said AAA Idaho public affairs director Matthew Conde. “However, the effect has been somewhat dampened in our region by strong refinery production. Pump prices may wobble back and forth this week, but a trend of more expensive fill-ups is likely on the horizon.”
According to the latest report by the Energy Information Administration, refineries across the country are operating at 82% of capacity, but production in the Rockies region shot up to nearly 91%. If production remains high, it could cushion the blow at Idaho pumps, according to AAA.
But U.S. gasoline demand jumped by nearly 600,000 barrels per day, and stocks decreased by three million barrels.
Some Idaho gas prices as of Monday: Boise, $2.90; Franklin, $2.85; Idaho Falls, $2.74; Lewiston, $3.14 and Twin Falls, $2.82.
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U of Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger investigated in 2nd home invasion attack
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Bryan Kohberger investigated over nearby home invasion year before alleged slayings of 4 University of Idaho students
Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger was once investigated in connection to a chilling home invasion that took place mere miles from where he allegedly slaughtered four college students inside their off-campus housing in 2022, according to a new report.
New information about the accused killer comes after ABC News obtained bodycam footage of police responding to a suspected home invasion in nearby Pullman, Wash., in October 2021 — more than a year before the University of Idaho students were stabbed to death.
“I heard my door open and I looked over, and someone was wearing a ski mask and had a knife,” a frightened woman told police.
“I kicked the s–t out of their stomach and screamed super loud, and they like flew back into my closet and then ran out my door and up the stairs.”
The alleged incident — which took place just 10 miles from the gruesome slayings in Moscow, Idaho — happened at 3:30 a.m., the woman told police, adding that the masked intruder was silent the whole time.
Her roommate immediately called the police, the outlet reported, but the case was left unsolved as police were left without a suspect or evidence at the time.
The terrifying incident shared eerie similarities with the gruesome quadruple University of Idaho murders.
Kohberger, 29, is accused of butchering students Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison Mogen, 21, around 4 a.m. inside their off-campus house on Nov. 13, 2022.
A surviving housemate later told police she saw a masked man with “bushy eyebrows” fleeing the house after overhearing cries and sounds of a struggle.
Kohberger, a criminology Ph.D. student at Washington State University, was arrested at his parents’ Pennsylvania home on Dec. 30 and charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary — charges he has since pleaded not guilty.
Thirteen days later he was named a person of interest in the Pullman case, ABC reported, but is no longer considered a suspect.
“We have no reason or evidence to believe he was involved in this burglary at this time,” Pullman police told the outlet, citing a height difference between the alleged attackers.
While Kohberger is 6 feet tall, the alleged attacker in the Pullman incident was described as being 5’3′ to 5’5′. The accused stabber was also not yet enrolled at Washington State University at the time of the 2021 incident, the outlet reported.
The case is now closed but remains unsolved, police said.
“My family and I have been frustrated that the case was not investigated more in-depth or resolved,” the victim in the break-in told the outlet.
Kohberger’s highly anticipated trial is slated to begin in August and last through November.
The lengthy trial, which was moved to Idaho’s capital of Boise, will include two phases — one to determine his guilt or innocence, and the other, if he’s found guilty, to determine whether he should receive the death penalty.
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