Stories from Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The Mountain Home School District will ask voters to renew a five-year authorization for its plant facilities levy at the May 17 election. The district will be requesting less money than it has previously. The current authorization, which expires this fall, raises $1.11 million annually from property taxes. The authorization being sought would be for only $925,000 a year...

Dear editor: I would like to straighten something out. There is no such statement, word or phrase as "separation of church and state" in the Constitution. The only place that wording shows up is in a letter to a Baptist minister from Thomas Jefferson telling him that his church would not be interfered with in their practices of religion....

Following on the heels of his election, President Obama claimed he wanted to begin a serious conversation with Republicans that could lead to bipartisan consensus on issues facing our nation. At the 2010 Republican retreat in Baltimore, he asked; "At what point can we have a serious conversation about Medicare and its long-term liability, or a serious conversation about Social Security or a serious conversation about budget and debt where we're not simply trying to position ourselves politically? That's what I'm committed to doing.". ...

Hundreds of Mountain Home residents gathered at Richard Aguirre Park on Saturday to sign a petition that seeks to remove the state's superintendent of public education from office. The campaign to recall Tom Luna followed the recent passage of a three-part education reform package that included deep cuts in state education budgets...

April 13 • 00:33 Info, Airbase Rd/Bypass Rd• 02:19 Vehicle Stop, Sunset Strip• 03:47 Vehicle Stop, S5W/W12S• 03:55 Vehicle Stop, Glenns Ferry• 04:05 Suspicious, I-84 EB MM129• 05:30 Miscellaneous, Tipanuk• 07:23 Vehicle Stop, Hwy 30• 08:32 Animal, I-84 EB MM80• 08:57 Abandoned Vehicle, Bypass/Airbase Rd• 09:01 Fire Alarm, Bannock• 10:25 Animal, Miller Wy• 11:00 K9• 11:45 Vehicle Stop, Featherville• 12:16 Vehicle Stop, Hwy 51• 13:38 Traffic, I-84 EB• 14:29 Abandoned Vehicle, Old Hwy 30• 14:42 Vehicle Stop, Hwy 30/Canyon Crk• 15:28 Abandoned Vehicle, Hwy 30/Goldenrod• 15:33 Abandoned Vehicle, Hwy 30• 15:54 Vehicle Stop, Oregon Trail Rd• 16:27 Civil Matter, Airbase Rd• 16:39 Vehicle Stop, Rattlesnake Station• 16:56 Vehicle Stop, Hwy 20 MM113• 17:39 Abandoned Vehicle, Frontage• 17:45 Vehicle Stop, Glenns Ferry• 18:06 Assist, Glenns Ferry• 18:47 Vehicle Stop, Reservoir• 19:25 Animal, I-84 MM87-88• 20:02 Civil, W6S• 20:20 K9, MH• 20:58 Suspicious, I-84 EB MM122• 21:10 Vehicle Stop, Hwy 30• 22:04 Vehicle Stop, Airbase Rd• 22:07 Vehicle Stop, E12/14• 22:46 Vehicle Stop, Hwy 167. ...

Two men were arrested Tuesday in Elmore County on 10 felony drug charges. In a criminal complaint released by the U.S. Attorney General in Boise on Wednesday, Cornelio Garcia and Edwardo Lopez face eight counts of possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute these illegal narcotics...

The king of England was simply having "one of those days." A wandering ghost was terrorizing his kingdom as he received news of a grumpy giant and angry dragon threatening his villagers. But those challenges were mere child's play compared to dealing with the in-your-face attitude of his cynical wife, compounded by the non-stop demands of his bratty son...