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Boise, ID

INDIO, CA - APRIL 13: Ashley Lorona from Boise Idaho, wearing vintage, attends day 2 of the 2013 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on April 13, 2013 in Indio, California.

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  • Idaho man charged in Uzbekistan terrorism plot

    about 650 Uzbeks living in Idaho. He was admitted to the U.S. as a refugee in August 2009, the same month he moved to Boise, said Jan Reeves, director of the Idaho Office for Refugees, citing immigration records. Kurbanov was here legally, federal officials   Read more »

  • Six-ton 'faked' potato stops at Hofstra

    we had a guy with his iPad hanging out the window of his car, said Tater Team member Kristie Wolfe, 30, of Boise, Idaho.The person who shoots the most creative photo of themselves with the big potato and submits it to the Big Potato Big Apple photo contest   Read more »

  • Man pleads guilty in death of monkey at Boise zoo

    -- A man charged with beating a monkey to death at Boise, Idaho 's zoo last fall has pleaded guilty.Michael Watkins, of Weiser, pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony charge of attempted grand theft and one misdemeanor count of animal cruelty.The Idaho Statesman   Read more »

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About Boise, ID

Boise; locally [ˈbɔɪ.si]), is the capital and the most populous city of the State of Idaho. Boise was given its name after French-Canadian trappers first explored the area after crossing the arid desert plains. Finding green trees at the site, primarily cottonwoods along the river, they named it boisé (meaning "wooded"). Boise has consequently been given the nickname City of Trees. The original Fort Boise was 40 miles west, down the Boise River, near the confluence with the Snake River at the Oregon border. This fort was erected by the Hudson's Bay Company in the 1830s. It was abandoned in the 1850s, but massacres along the Oregon Trail prompted the U.S. Army to re-establish a fort in the area in 1863, during the U.S. Civil War. The new location was selected because it was near the intersection of the Oregon Trail and a major road connecting the Boise Basin (Idaho City) and the Owyhee mining areas, both booming at the time. Idaho City was the largest city in the area, but the new Fort Boise grew rapidly (as a staging area to Idaho City) and Boise was incorporated as a city in 1864. The first capital of Idaho was Lewiston, but Boise replaced it in 1865. As of the 2000 census, Boise's population was 185,787. According to the 2005 Census estimates, the city proper had an estimated population of 193,161. Downtown Boise is at an elevation of 2704 feet above sea level.

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