Stories from Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Record-shattering crowds packed into the city's main fire station to enjoy an evening of fun during an open house Thursday evening. Held in conjunction with National Fire Prevention Week, the annual event wrapped up a series of activities in local-area schools aimed at spreading fire safety messages...

The future of public education in Idaho highlighted the list of issues addressed by two District 23 candidates during a political debate last week. Incumbent state representative Pete Nielsen and challenger Pamela Chiarella met Oct. 10 during an event hosted by Mountain Home High School's speech and debate team...

Dear editor: I'd like to address this letter to the "lovely" man, who was driving State Hwy 44, at about 4:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 8, in a big pickup with a long travel trailer. His licence plate on his travel trailer has an E, so I am addressing this to your Mountain Home paper, in hopes that he will see it...

A murder trial for a case that took more than ten years to come to court began Monday for Jorge Alberto Lopez-Orozco, charged with the 2002 murder of Rebecca Ramirez and two of her children, Miguel, 2, and Ricardo, 4. With opening statements for the case of the State vs. ...