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Pete Roberts was stoic and brief as he addressed the grief-ravaged family of the elderly Nampa couple he bound and stabbed to death in their Nampa home on Christmas Day, 2003.

Idaho State Police are investigating a crash that injured a Caldwell woman Thursday afternoon near Middleton Road and Linden Road in Canyon County.

Pat Large, owner of CPM Precision Machine, will donate $5,000 to a Fruitland wrestling club this afternoon to help the team continue after the club's money disappeared and its coach was arrested for embezzlement.

Plans for a new public safety building and other revitalization efforts for the city's downtown core will be highlighted at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 25, at the Masonic Event Center on the corner of 11th Avenue and 4th Street South.

The city is gathering community members ideas for how Nampa should develop by the year 2035, and residents can make comments and show preferences throughout this week by checking out displays set up at three Nampa locations throughout this week.

CALDWELL -- A 45-year-old Nampa man will spend the rest of his life in prison for the 2003 stabbings death of Bob and Idella Young. Judge Gregory Culet ordered Pete Roberts to serve two life sentences with no possibility of parole. Roberts pleaded guilty in February to two counts of first-degree murder.  In exchange for his guilty pleas, prosecutors agreed not seek the death penalty. Two charges of kidnapping were also dropped.  Roberts cannot file an appeal of his sentence. In a Canyon County courtroom Friday, Roberts apologized to the victims' family members. "I just want to say I lost control. I lost control of my mind. I hope both families can find closure and peace in all this. I am truly and deeply sorry about it all,"  said Roberts. The elderly couple was tied up, stabbed and tortured then left to die on Christmas Day 2003. Roberts, a former tenant, was arrested five years later after a traffic stop on Nov. 7, 2008. Nampa Police investigators say DNA evidence linked Roberts to the murders. The daughter and granddaughter of Bob and Idella Young spoke in court Friday morning. They said what had happened to their parents was disgusting, devastating and that it will be something they will never forget. "The judge said it very well, he said that our family will have closure to this piece of it. But we will never have complete closure.  Every day we will wake up and know what happened and nothing can take that away," said daughter Kathy Young-Loggins. "Personally I wanted the death penalty, he's lived longer than I think he deserved because they didn't get to," said granddaughter Decembre Noriyuki. The Young family also said they toured the prison where Roberts would be held for the rest of his life and were glad to see his life would be very limited.

CALDWELL -- Idaho State Police are investigating a crash between a Canyon Highway District gravel truck and Volkswagen Passat in Caldwell. The accident happened around 4'30 p.m. Thursday on Middleton Road about 100 yards south of Linden Road.  Police say 31-year-old Maria Gonzalez-Pineda had parked her Passat on the right shoulder near the intersection and made a U-turn.   She was then hit in the passenger door side by a semi pulling two gravel trailers driven by 61-year-old James Weast of Caldwell.  The force of the impact was so strong that the passenger door ended up on the driver's side of the VW. Gonzalez-Pineda was taken by air ambulance to St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise with a possible broken arm and leg. Police say she is lucky to be alive because she was not wearing a seatbelt.  Weast was wearing a seatbelt and was not hurt.   

BOISE -- Boise Police say three teenage boys have been will be charged in connection with the recent vandalism of Boise Fire Department equipment. Officials say on March 14, the vandals set fires and destroyed about $5,000 worth of emergency vehicles and equipment that was stored inside the old Armory building. Detectives were able to identify three suspects after receiving a citizen's tip to Crime Stoppers. "We very much appreciate the public's help on this case. No one wants to find their property has been damaged by vandals, but when it's emergency rescue equipment, that's especially significant since it impacts public safety," said Det. Craig Nixon of the Boise Police Property Crimes Unit. "The citizen tip, matched with evidence we gathered at the scene certainly helped us find who did this." Police say the three suspects are all 14 years old and live near the old Armory. The investigation is continuing, but officers say they will charge the teens with felony burglary, arson and malicious injury to property. Additionally, their parents could be held responsible for the damages.  

MERIDIAN -- A three-car accident caused a mess for commuters this morning. It happened at around 7 a.m. on the Meridian overpass. Traffic was backed up in the area and the southbound lane was blocked while the accident was cleared. One person was taken to the hospital.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – A fugitive who once acted as the lawyer for U.S. Baptist missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children was arrested on human-trafficking charges, authorities said Friday. Jorge Puello, 32, was detained as he left a McDonald's restaurant late Thursday in the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo, the National Drug Control Agency said. Agency spokesman Roberto Lebron said he did not know whether Puello would be extradited to the U.S., where he is wanted on smuggling charges, or El Salvador, where authorities say he led a prostitution ring. His mother, Soledad Puello, had told The Associated Press earlier Thursday that she and others were negotiating with Salvadoran prosecutors for her son to turn himself in. Puello initially served as the Americans' legal adviser and spokesman, but authorities later identified him as the man wanted on an Interpol warrant requested by authorities in El Salvador. Authorities also have an outstanding warrant for his arrest on an alleged U.S. parole violation following a 2003 federal indictment out of Vermont accusing him of smuggling illegal migrants from Canada into the United States. Puello was living in Canada at the time and said he was working undercover for U.S. authorities. Puello attracted international attention when he provided the U.S. missionaries detained in Haiti with food, medicine and legal assistance. One of the Americans' Haitian lawyers, Aviol Fleurant, told the AP that Puello absconded with $30,000 in legal fees the Americans had raised for Fleurant. Puello, who was born in New York but holds both U.S. and Dominican citizenship, told the AP in February that he was innocent of all accusations. Nine of the 10 missionaries involved in the case, most of whom are from Idaho, have been released from jail and returned to the United States. Group leader Laura Silsby remains in custody at the police station that is being used as Haiti's temporary government headquarters.

IDAHO FALLS -- A northern Idaho man says about 3,000 white supremacist fliers have been distributed in southern Idaho as part of an Aryan Nations campaign that started March 6. Paul Mullet of Athol says he is the leader of the group and that more fliers will be distributed. Barbara Holm of Idaho Falls recently received one of the fliers stuffed with two peppermint candies and an invitation to join the group. Holm tells the Post Register she was flabbergasted and couldn't believe that type of flier had come to her driveway. Idaho Falls Police Department Sgt. Phil Grimes says the flier Holm received likely didn't violate any laws.

BOISE -- House Republicans have joined lawmakers in other states who want Congress to amend the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, as well as its interstate commerce clause, to limit federal government encroachment on states' rights. This resolution, meant to send a symbolic message, is the latest initiative to make its way through the Idaho Legislature this year aimed at upbraiding Washington, D.C. Rep. Lynn Luker, a Boise Republican, told lawmakers, "What we're trying to do here is to get back to the basis of the Constitution." Friday's vote came down 46-16, with Democrats panning it as yet another bit of GOP grandstanding. The Senate now gets to consider the matter. Numerous states have been asserting rights under the 10th Amendment this year, part of what some perceive as a groundswell of dissatisfaction with national leaders amid the economic downturn.

BOISE -- A 4th District Judge has ordered two men and their businesses to pay $5 million for violating state investment rules. The ruling was a win for the Idaho Department of Finance, which sued Jamison Potter, Adam Bentley and North American Capital Trust LLC, Pacific Partners LLC and Silverstone Equity Group LLC last year contending they sold fraudulent investments to Idaho residents. The Idaho Business Review reports that in the lawsuit, the department said the men promised returns on investments by buying life insurance policies at a discounted rate, then selling those policies at a higher rate. But state officials said the defendants instead sent the money to Panama.