Stories from Thursday, April 28, 2011

The Mountain Home Tigers dropped two close conference baseball games to Columbia Friday at Columbia, 4-2, and 6-4. Both games were played at Columbia Friday after Thursday's game at Columbia was rained out. In the first game, Columbia scored three unearned runs in the first inning and it held up for a 4-2 win...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers rebounded for a loss to Emmett early in the week to down Kuna with first place on the line. Emmett 11, Mountain Home 7 The Lady Huskies pounded Mountain Home pitcher Heather Adams for 14 hits, including four doubles and a home run, as Emmett beat the Lady Tigers 11-7 last Tuesday in Mountain Home...

When Verna Weiss, who lives in the Bishop Court area of Northside Estates, spotted several peacocks on her roof, she quickly took a picture and then called the city animal control officers to see about having them captured and removed. But Danniele Rhatigan, the animal shelter superintendent, said there was little she could do about it...

Trailing after three rounds, students from Hacker Middle School and Mountain Home Junior High School battled back to finish second overall during a regional academic and trivia competition April 19. Held at the junior high school, the Academic Bowl was one of seven tournaments scheduled throughout the year to test students from schools across the Treasure Valley...

A graveside inurnment for Roxie A. (Mink) Bossenberger, 55, formerly of Mountain Home and Cambridge, will be held at 1 p.m., on Saturday, May 7, 2011, at the Salubria Cemetery in Cambridge.

Three boaters were rescued Thursday afternoon by the Elmore County Sheriff's Office boat patrol after their boat capsized due to high winds at C.J. Strike Reservoir near the Air Force Marina. One of the three men in the small cxraft made it to shore and contacted a camper who called Elmore County dispatch just before 2 p.m...