• Two young boys dead after Twin Falls trailer fire

TWIN FALLS - Two children have died in a house fire that erupted in a south-central Idaho mobile home park.

The Times-News reports that a 3-year-old girl escaped with minor injuries from the Twin Falls mobile home Monday evening. However, 4-year-old Kayden Green and 1-year-old Damion Green died. The three children were the only ones in the home.

Twin Falls city spokesman Joshua Palmer said the trailer was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived.

He added that firefighters removed the boys from the trailer and took them to a local hospital, where they were pronounced dead.

Palmer said firefighters who arrived on the scene were sent home early because they were shaken by what happened.

The cause of the fire was not immediately known.

• Boise-based chain owes unpaid overtime

BOISE - Federal investigators said a Boise-based restaurant chain must pay $230,000 in unpaid overtime and damages to more than 50 workers.

The U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday that Chapala Mexican Restaurant violated overtime laws at its Boise, Nampa, Garden City and McCall locations.

Authorities tell the Idaho Statesman that the restaurant owners also failed to pay cooks and tip employees for all hours worked.

Federal law states that non-exempt employees are to be paid at least federal minimum wages of $7.25 per hour, plus time and a half their regular wage for every hour worked beyond 40 hours per week.

The law requires employers who break the law to compensate employees for their back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages.

• Log truck driver in freeway pileup pays $96 fine

NAMPA - A log truck driver whose initial collision with a Subaru resulted in a 44-vehicle pileup on Interstate 84 in January has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of driving too fast for conditions in connection with the accident.

The Idaho Press-Tribune reported that Cory D. Ford of Emmett was sentenced to a pay a $96 fine on Monday. He was previously charged with inattentive driving.

Ford is currently being sued by Subaru owner Jose Silva Cueller, after an insurance company denied a claimed filed by Silva Cueller.

Ford's loaded logging truck rear-ended Silva Cueller near Meridian on Jan. 9. The pileup occurred after a wall of dense fog descended during the morning rush hour. Ten people were injured in the collisions, including Silva Cueller who sustained serious injuries.

• Utah mandolin player sentenced for Idaho assault

IDAHO FALLS - A mandolin player for a Utah-based Celtic rock band who used his instrument's case to strike a bandmate in the face following a performance in Idaho has been sentenced to 14 days in jail.

Thirty-nine-year-old Samuel Cottrell of Bountiful, Utah, also on Monday in 7th District Court received a sentence of two and a half years on probation.

The Post Register reports that Cottrell pleaded guilty to aggravated assault.

Authorities say the assault took place on March 15 after an argument started as Cottrell and other members of the group Swagger loaded musical equipment after performing at the Celt Pub & Grill in Idaho Falls.

Swagger frontman Rick Butler says Cottrell played mandolin for the band until the night of the assault.