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Kohberger Documents Released, WA Burn Ban and Tacoma Mayoral Primary: July 30, 2025
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After accepting a plea deal, Bryan Kohberger has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering four University of Idaho students. After the hearing in Boise, the city of Moscow, Idaho publicly released dozens of documents relating to the crime. Plus, it's set to be a dry and hot summer in the northwest and Washington is preparing for fire season by implementing a burn ban across the state.
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Kohberger Documents Released, WA Burn Ban and Tacoma Mayoral Primary: July 30, 2025
7/30/2025 | 2m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
After accepting a plea deal, Bryan Kohberger has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering four University of Idaho students. After the hearing in Boise, the city of Moscow, Idaho publicly released dozens of documents relating to the crime. Plus, it's set to be a dry and hot summer in the northwest and Washington is preparing for fire season by implementing a burn ban across the state.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipNew documents in the Idaho four case are released to the public.
This after Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to four consecutive life terms for killing Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin in November 2022.
The University of Idaho students were stabbed to death by Kohberger at an off-campus home.
The sentencing hearing was at that Ada County courthouse in Boise, Idaho.
More than a dozen people addressed the court and Kohberger for hours of victim impact statements.
Here's Kaylee's father, Steve Goncalves.
“Today, we are here to prove to the world that you picked the wrong families.
The wrong state, the wrong police officers, the wrong community.” Kohberger will not be able to appeal his sentence.
With the case now closed, investigators have unsealed some documents from the investigation.
Due to the intense public interest, Moscow police made those documents available on a web page through the city's website.
The department expected a surge of records requests, so instead this page houses those documents for public access and transparency.
As fire season continues to ramp up with hotter weather and drier conditions, there is another burn ban in effect.
This time, it's for Eastern Washington.
The state Department of Natural Resources announced the ban for lands it manages.
That means no campfires and no using charcoal briquettes on all forest lands within DNRs fire protection in the northeast and southeast regions.
The ban is in place until otherwise posted, dependent, of course, on conditions.
That was Michael Williams serving as moderator of a recent candidate forum in Tacoma.
Five of the six mayoral candidates took part in it ahead of the August primary.
The forum focused on housing.
To find out what they said about things like tenant rights, Tacomas camping ban and social housing check out the article on NWPB.org.
There were some resounding agreements and some not so much.
Now the Washington primary is coming up on Tuesday, August 5th.
Ballots have been delivered to Washington voters already.
Be sure to get those in the ballot box by 5 p.m. on the fifth, or postmarked by that date.
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