An Idaho National Guard Apache helicopter crashed Thursday night just south of Boise Airport, killing two, according to Boise Fire Department officials.

The helicopter went down about 7:50 p.m. local time, said Tammy Barry, spokeswoman for the department.

Both crew members on board were killed, Col. Tim Marsano told The Associated Press.

No other details about the two were released. 

The chopper was on a training mission, Marsano said. 

The National Guard will lead the investigation, Barry said. 

Numerous calls to the Idaho National Guard were not returned.

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A 14-year-old survivor of a school shooting in Washington state that left four students dead was released from the hospital Thursday after receiving treatment for almost two weeks.

Nate Hatch was shot in the jaw on Oct. 24 after a classmate, Jaylen Fryberg, 15, invited him and other friends to lunch in the cafeteria of Marysville-Pilchuck High School and then opened fire.

"We appreciate all the amazing support we have received from the community," Nate Hatch's family said in a statement released through Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he was treated. "We are grateful for the top-notch care Nate received from the team at Harborview Medical Center.

"Our hearts and prayers go out to all the families who have been affected by this horrific tragedy. Please allow us the privacy we need to continue on the road of recovery. Thank you."

Zoe Galasso and Gia Soriano died of gunshot wounds to the head. Shaylee Adelle Chuckulnaskit died last week from her gunshot wounds. They were all...

Obama administration officials outlined in more detail Thursday how they would spend the president’s proposed $6-billion Ebola emergency funding package, emphasizing the urgency of the situation as government funds are scheduled to sunset early next month.

Speaking on a conference call with reporters, Office of Management and Budget Director Shaun Donovan said time is of the essence.

“This should be emergency funding because this is an emergency. It’s critical that we fund this quickly and at a level that is appropriate to the scale of this epidemic,” Donovan said. “Costs will be much higher in the long run if we don’t move quickly.”

A previously approved Ebola spending package is set to expire Dec. 11, Donovan said, and administration officials are working closely with Congress to pass the new spending package before then.

“There is a real danger here, and a risk, that if it’s not passed by the middle of December … we could start to see funding gaps that set us behind in the effort,”...

It has been a little more than five years since a Colorado couple tricked the world into believing their small child was trapped in a silver weather balloon floating out of control over the Rocky Mountain sky.

Tonight, “Balloon Boy: The Musical” opens at a Colorado high school.

The play, based on the Oct. 15, 2009, stunt in Fort Collins when Richard and Mayumi Heene claimed their 6-year-old son, Falcon, was inside a large gas balloon floating away, will open this weekend at Monarch High School in Louisville, Colo.

"It's new. It's contemporary. It's fresh," said Gwendolyn Lukas-Doctor, the drama department director at Monarch.

Lukas-Doctor decided to put on the show at her school after she met playwright Billy Recce, 16, at the International Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Neb., where his play received accolades, she said.

Recce, who began working on the show when he was 11, told Fox 31 Denver that the musical is a comedy that is neither for nor against the Heenes, but a commentary on a...

A man suspected of killing his girlfriend in Washington state, posting photos of her corpse and describing the slaying online and then leading police in Oregon on a high-speed chase is in custody, police announced Wednesday night.

Shortly after the Portland Police Department surrounded a home where officers believed David Kalac, 33, of Port Orchard, Wash., might have been hiding, the department said the sighting in their city was false -- and that Kalac was in custody in a neighboring jurisdiction. The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that Kalac had turned himself in to a deputy and was arrested by police in the suburb of Wilsonville. 

He is being held in Oregon's Multnomah County Jail and faces extradition to Washington state, officials said.

Earlier, on Wednesday afternoon, Portland police announced that they found the gold Ford Focus that Kalac was believed to have been driving.

Amber Lynn Coplin, 30, was found dead in her Port Orchard apartment Tuesday afternoon when...

Amber Vinson gave a round of interviews Thursday morning, days after being released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, describing the physical toll that Ebola has had on her, and the emotional toll of critics who questioned her decision to fly to Ohio before she fell ill.

Vinson defended the decision, saying she had no symptoms at the time, which meant she could not transmit the disease.

“I would not take Ebola to my family and my best girlfriends,” Vinson told CNN’s Don Lemon. “I would not endanger families across the nation, potentially exposing them to anything.”

Smiling and appearing healthy, Vinson said she continues to feel tired and has to catch her breath after walking even short distances.

Battling the disease, she said, was draining. “You’ve got to force yourself to get up, and forcing yourself takes a lot out of you too,” she said. “You’re fighting for your life.” But, she added, her faith remained strong, and she “didn’t feel like it was my time yet.”

Vinson...