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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — When a photo of Eli popped up in her email inbox last fall, Renee Charron was smitten. "I love this dog," the St. Luke's Hospice social worker thought. She didn't realize that she had met the dog's owners before — when she admitted their loved one into hospice care. Eli was up for adoption through the Pet Peace of Mind program, a national organization that partners in the Treasure Valley with St. Luke's Hospice. The program helps St. Luke's hospice patients keep their pets in their final days, makes sure the pets are hea...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — It was still dark the morning Ruperto Vazquez-Carrera began his shift at Sunrise Organic Dairy. It was mid-February 2016. A winter heat wave had melted snow and ice overnight, flooding part of the rural Jerome County farm. A foot of standing water made it hard to tell where the feeding area ended and the deep pond that held the farm's manure began. Vazquez-Carrera got into a feed truck to deliver the cows their morning meal. About 5:30 a.m., he called his brother, who also worked at the farm, to warn him about the c...
