POCATELLO – Zach and Tami Parris are returning to the slopes at Pebble Creek Ski area in Inkom next month for the third annual “Ride On Dads.” The fundraiser, which provides funding for prostate cancer research at Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City, is happening Saturday, March 4. Participants can enjoy a day of […]
Local deputy prosecutor retiring next month
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Zach Parris, left, with his wife, Tami. | Photo courtesy Tami Parris
POCATELLO – After a 20-year career with Bannock County, Deputy Prosecutor Zach Parris is officially retiring on March 2nd. He says he’s stepping down for health reasons.
“I want to take advantage of the time that I have and try to spend it with my family and enjoy my last few years. We’ll see how it works out,” Parris says in an interview with KPVI.
Parris was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2012.
Despite ongoing treatment, Parris tells EastIdahoNews.com the cancer is under control and he’s feeling great.
He was diagnosed with prostate cancer 8 years ago and now he’s on a mission to help find a cure
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POCATELLO, Idaho (East Idaho News) During a routine checkup in 2008, Zach Parris’s doctor suggested he get a Prostate Specific Antigen test. It’s a blood test that determines whether you have prostate cancer.
Cancer had never been an issue for the 49-year-old Pocatello resident or anyone in his family and he had always been healthy, so he was a little surprised at his doctor’s recommendation. Men 50 and older have an increased chance of getting prostate cancer and his doctor felt getting tested would be a good idea.
POCATELLO â Bannock County prosecutors and the defense attorneys representing the local man accused of fatally stabbing 25-year-old Nori Jones in her Pocatello home in 2004 were back in court Tuesday to discuss the status of the case.
Brad Scott Compher, 45, of Pocatello, has been incarcerated at the Bannock County Jail in Pocatello since he was arrested and charged in September 2014 with felony first degree murder and a felony enhancement for using a weapon during the commission of a felony crime.
Though Bannock County prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Compher, who is by far the Bannock County Jailâs longest-tenured inmate, no trial date has yet been scheduled in his case. And with the Idaho Supreme Courtâs Dec. 14 order indefinitely suspending jury trials in the state due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, itâs anyoneâs guess when Compherâs trial will begin.