Stories from Thursday, October 20, 2011

The Mountain Home Tigers scored 28 unanswered points in the second half, but their effort fell short as the Kuna Kavemen scored the final 14 points of the game to beat the Tigers 34-28 Friday night at Kuna. Mountain Home moved the ball on the opening drive, going from the Tigers' own 20 down to the Kuna 8 before the drive stalled...

Mountain Home hosted the annual Mountain Home Invitational cross country meet at Desert Canyon Golf Course last Thursday, where the girls came in third and the boys finished in fifth place. Jerome won the girls competition with 40 points. Twin Falls was second with 59, a point ahead of Mountain Home's 60. Vale, Ore., was fourth with 97, Nampa fifth with 114, and Wood River was sixth with 119...

Emphasizing the need for more creative outlets for local teens and children, two local parents unveiled a plan that could lead to sweeping changes to the Mountain Home Youth Center. Introduced at a city council meeting Oct. 11, the proposal focuses on transforming the existing facility on North Main Street into a "go-to" destination for older, school-age students...

The company responsible for managing the city's trash and recycling collection programs expects to streamline those services later this year under an existing program it plans to adopt locally. During a briefing at the city's council's public meeting Oct. 11, Allied Waste will include Mountain Home into its growing list of communities across the Treasure Valley using the new process...

A former Elmore County man, who served 15 years in prison for a child sex abuse case here, was convicted last week in Malheur County, Ore., on 23 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse by possessing child pornography. Robert Dennis Kilby, 67, had previously been sentenced to prison in Elmore County in 1995 on two counts of sexual abuse of a child, two counts of possession of sexual exploitative material and one count of lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor. ...

Elmore County search and rescue teams were called out Thursday morning to look for a hunter who may be lost somewhere between Tipanuk and Danskin Mountain. The 36-year-old Boise man was reported missing by his family after he did not return home last night. He is driving a blue 2011 Ford Flex with 1A plates. Anyone who has seen the vehicle is urged to contact the Elmore County Sheriff's Office at 587-2100...