Stories from Friday, February 10, 2012

The Mountain Home Black History Committee will feature a retrospect of President Abraham Lincoln during the 23rd Annual Black History Banquet on Feb. 17. Hosted by the Elks Lodge, 325 South 3rd West Street, social hour begins at 6 p.m. with the program following at 7 p.m...

The Mountain Home Tigers picked up dual wrestling wins Thursday night, taking matches from Middleton and New Plymouth during a tri-match at Middleton. Mountain Home 56, New Plymouth 12 The Tigers lost just two matches against New Plymouth as they crushed the Pilgrims, 56-12, during their first match of the night last Thursday at Middleton...

Following a trek stretching hundreds of miles over two states, the first of 15 homes from Mountain Home Air Force Base are seeing new life through a program aimed at helping Native American tribes. In December, the first of these modular homes left the base for the Ely-Shoshone Tribe in eastern Nevada as part of a federal program known as Operation Walking Shield...

Mountain Home Air Force Base is hosting members of the U.S. Special Operations Forces and other military units during a joint training exercise, which began here Friday. People in Mountain Home and surrounding communities may see increased flying activity and aircraft noise during the exercise, which is scheduled to end Feb. 18...

The Elmore County Sheriff's Department is seeking the public's help for leads in a case involving a high-speed chase that led to a vehicle theft in King Hill on Feb. 4. The sheriff's department continues to seek the arrest of Vernon R. Johnson Jr. and Myranda R. York, both from Walla Walla, Wash...