Stories from Thursday, August 18, 2011

A retired civil engineer from Mountain Home Air Force Base who helped develop the AFAD Fun Run/Walk will lead this year's parade during the 51st Annual Air Force Appreciation Day celebration. Brad Seymour received the grand marshal title during a chamber of commerce meeting Monday afternoon...

As students returned to their first day of classes Wednesday morning, those attending Mountain Home High School faced significant changes aimed at cutting costs. Changes to the school's class schedule and truancy program are the latest in a series of cost-saving measures across the Mountain Home School District that began last spring...

Christian Koppenhafer and members of band Phantasmagoria belt out a tune during the group's performance Thursday evening at Carl Miller Park. The performance wrapped up this year's Summer Concert Series featuring entertainers from across the Treasure Valley...

The Mongrels Rugby Football Club of Mountain Home took second place in the Boise 7's Rugby Shootout Tournament on Saturday. The tournament featured 12 teams from across Idaho playing seven-man rugby. Mountain Home had a record of two wins, one loss and one tie during the tournament...

Michael W. "Cornbread" Sneed, 53, of Mountain Home, passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011, at a Boise hospital. Funeral services will be held on Friday, Aug. 19, at 11 a.m., at Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery...

It was one of the strangest accidents one Idaho State Police trooper had ever seen. At about 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Elmore County dispatcher sent sheriff's deputies to the scene of a single-vehicle accident at mile marker 132 (Power Plant overpass) east of Glenns Ferry. ISP also responded...