Stories from Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Jodi Lynn Valen was stabbed more than 100 times and her husband allegedly confessed to the murder as he was being led away from their burning home the night of March 5, testimony during the preliminary hearing for John Valen revealed. Valen has been charged with second-degree murder and first-degree arson charged. Following last week's two-days of testimony during a preliminary hearing, Magistrate Judge David Epis ordered Valen bound over to district court to face trial on those charges...

Elmore County authorities recovered the body of a Boise murder victim last Thursday, in a ravine just below Morrow Reservoir north of Glenns Ferry. Sheriff Rick Layher said Boise police called him that morning and asked for their assistance in finding the body of John Albert Schmeichel, 22, of Boise. Based on an investigation of Schmeichel's murder Boise police had a rough location for where the body had been buried...

The Mountain Home Tiger boys golf team battled the elements last Monday at Centennial golf Course in Nampa. Caldwell and Vallivue tied for first, both shooting a 157 total. Emmett was third at 164, two shots better than Nampa. Bishop Kelly, which had won the first two conference tourneys, finished fifth with a 170, followed by Skyview at 179, Kuna, 183, and Mountain Home was eighth, at 197...

The Mountain Home Tiger track team had some good efforts in their first effort of the season last Thursday at Nampa. Skyview won the girls competition with 67.5 points, Nampa was second with 64.5, and the Mountain Home girls were a close third with 51 points...

Good pitching, timely hitting and good defense: three parts of the puzzle that generally produce victories, and such was the case last Tuesday night when the Mountain Home Lady Tigers had some of each in a 8-1 non-conference softball win over Wood River at Eastside Park in Mountain Home...

The Mountain Home Tigers picked up their first two wins of the young baseball season at last week's Buck's Bag Baseball Tournament in Boise. Mountain Home 12 Mountain View 2 An RBI double by Brett Young helped key a six-run first inning for the Tigers as they picked up their first win of the young baseball season last Thursday in their Buck's Bag Tourney opener...

Jeannie (Covington) Chinn, 72, of Boise, died Sunday March 27, 2005 in Boise, after a brief illness. A graveside service will be held on Wednesday, March 30, at 2:00 p.m. at Mountain View Cemetery. Services are under the direction of the Summers Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home...

Nona Verle Frost Jones, 91, of Bruneau, died March 27, 2005. She had been at Boise Samaritan Village Care Center for the last eight months. Private graveside services will be held at Bruneau Cemetery on Thursday, March 31, at noon. Arrangements are under the direction of Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel in Boise...

Glenna (Davison) West, 82, of Mountain Home, died March 27, 2005, in Nampa, after an extended illness. Services will be held on Monday, April 4, at 10:30 a.m. at the Assembly of God Church, 315 S. 4th East St., Mountain Home. Burial will follow at 1 p.m. at Prairie Cemetery, in Prairie. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home...

Earl Hale, 73, of Mountain Home, died March 23, 2005, at a Boise hospital. Services will be held on Wednesday, March 30, at 11 a.m. at Bible Baptist Church, 1555 American Legion Blvd, Mountain Home. Burial will follow with military honors at Mountain View Cemetery in Mountain Home...

Tina Gibson of Ontario, Ore., and James Gibson of Nampa, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Kelli Gibson, to Michael Bauer, both of Mountain Home. The groom is the son of Ramona and Warren Bauer of Mountain Home. Kelli is a graduate of Ontario High School, ITT Technical Institute, and will graduate from BSU this May. She is currently employed by Micron Technology...