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Meridian Police need your help searching for a homicide victim's truck. More details via KTVB:
Now police are trying to track down a pickup truck they say is missing from the home. The vehicle is a 1996 white Ford F-250 pickup truck with Idaho license plate KG 4024. Police say you should not approach the vehicle, but call dispatch if you spot the truck.

According to an associate of this writer, Darin from Boise, as he was sitting at his computer this morning around 7:15am, he felt a gentle swaying, and then reloaded the USGS until he saw word of the earth quake.  Darin says it only took 20 minutes for the USGS to coordinate with the various USGS stations nation wide in an effort to triangulate the exact location.

Some resources from the USGS:

• Check here for a map.
• Check here for the details.
• And here for what KTVB did (essentially pick up a Nevada phone book and call random numbers and ask people what happened).
• Some local TV video coverage here.
• The Idaho Statesman has their take. 
• The national media is starting to catch on as well. At this hour FoxNews, ABC, and CNN (though you have to dig for it on CNN's site under the US news section) are reporting the quake.  Nothing from NRP or CBS yet.

The Idaho Legislature Revenue and Taxation Committee met Monday at 9am to discuss and take public comments, regarding a proposed bill to alter the Idaho grocery tax credit.  This writer attended the meeting in person.  The meeting room was full and overcrowded with some people sitting on the floor and others straining their ears while listening outside in the hallway.

The Spokesman-Review provides an excellent recap of the events at the meeting, while the Idaho Statesman provides a more politically charged account of those same events.

Idaho will hold its Democratic Party caucus on Tuesday, Feb. 5th. See the Democratic Party web site for more information (currently the caucus information page is off line; check back later). The Republican Party primary election will be held March 23. The Constitution Party and Libertarian Party have not announced a primary date / location (no information given on their web sites, both of which do not seem to have updated in a year or so).

More primary information available at KTVB.com