Stories from Wednesday, August 28, 2002

As the county prepares to go to the printers for ballots for the Nov. 5 election, there is one item that will not be included -- a bond issue for a new jail. The Board of Elmore County Commissioners voted to table the bond issue, sending it back to the citizens jail committee for more work...

The Mountain Home School District has been busy this summer, giving two schools a new facelift, closing another, and getting ready for a major wave of federal- and state-mandated testing standards that students will face when they return to school next Tuesday...

Two siblings, a sister and a brother, of Jorge Alberto Lopez-Orozco have been charged with accessory to murder, after the fact, for helping Orozco and his family flee Idaho after he allegedly murdered Rebecca Ramirez and two of her young sons, ages 4 and 2...