Stories from Thursday, June 7, 2012

The former president and treasurer of the quick response unit in Atlanta faces one count of grand theft during a preliminary hearing next month. Kathy Makin stands accused of committing a series of small-scale thefts over a seven-month period starting in June 2011, according to the criminal complaint...

A Glenns Ferry man was sentenced to a minimum of two years in prison for his role last year in an incident at a local bar in addition to a store robbery. Montale Berry's sentencing hearing Monday afternoon comes two months after he was found guilty on both felony charges...

The Central District Health Department will host a special back-to-school immunization clinic from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 23 at its office at 520 East 8th North Street in Mountain Home. The clinic coincides with the children's health fair held next door at Elmore Medical Center...

Mountain Home's retiring fire chief Phil Gridley, left, reacts as public works director Wayne Shepherd presents him with a gold painted fire hydrant wrench during a retirement party Friday afternoon. The city's main fire station was filled to near capacity as city officials, representatives from local fire agencies and well wishers gathered to mark Gridley's retirement after 35 years of service to the Mountain Home community...

The Mountain Home Royals opened their 2012 American Legion Class A baseball season last week with a trio of wins over Columbia and the Boise Barons. Royals 2, Columbia 1 (Eight innings) Adrian Martinez scored on a sacrifice fly by Jesse Cobos in the bottom of the eighth inning to help the Mountain Home Royals edge the Columbia Mudcats, 2-1, last Thursday night at Tiger Field in Mountain Home...