Stories from Thursday, August 26, 2010

With Labor Day less than two weeks away, law enforcement officers in Elmore County and across Idaho will step up efforts to identify and arrest intoxicated drivers. The high-visibility impaired driving enforcement campaign starts Friday and continues through Sept. 7 as part of a nationwide education and enforcement effort targeting drunken driving...

A Wendell resident will return to Elmore County Magistrate Court on Tuesday to face four counts of felony vehicular manslaughter. Eusebio J. Pineda, 45, stands accused of causing a head-on crash on the interstate near Glenns Ferry that killed four members of a California family...

Bryan Simpson, a flight paramedic with the Life Flight Network, helps Kaleah Bradley try out an aircrew helmet during the Mountain Home Community Cares Day on Saturday. Hosted by the local Sears store, the event featured a variety of displays and demonstrations from city and county law enforcement and emergency services agencies, the Bureau of Land Management as well as security forces and explosive ordnance disposal technicians from Mountain Home Air Force Base...

Live in a barn instead of a home? For Tony and Linda Culver, it's not only a great idea but a dream come true. Just a couple of months ago, the couple sold their home in California, packed up their belongings and came to Mountain Home to enjoy their retirement. For Linda, a 1965 graduate of Mountain Home High School, it was also a long-overdue homecoming and a chance to spend more time with her mother and her two siblings...

The Mountain Home Tigers open their 2010 football season Friday night at Tiger Field against the Jerome Tigers. Mountain Home will try to improve upon last year's 2-7 season, despite having what Tiger head football coach Brian Floyd calls, "dismal" numbers out this year...

Dear editor: On Friday, Aug. 20, I was riding my bicycle down 3rd Street East off American Legion, just past Hawleys, when I heard someone behind me blaring their horn. When I started to turn to see who it was, a lady sped around me in her suburban. I was startled but didn't intend to follow her...

Lydia D. Mendiola, 87, of Mountain Home, passed away on Monday, Aug.24, 2010. A funeral mass celebrating her life will be held on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., at our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church. Burial with military honors by American Legion Post #26 will follow at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel...