Stories from Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Jerry Rost has a sense of history -- and not just in a general sense -- about his profession as a funeral director. And the end of fall, Rost acquired a rare 1897 Sayers and Scovill horse-drawn hearse. Originally made in Cincinnati (the company still exists but makes more modern hearses today), it had been through several hands in the Boise area for the last 15-20 years before a funeral director there acquired it about four years ago...

A man convicted of murdering a woman and two of her children in Elmore County more than 10 years ago will now face sentencing in March. Jorge Lopez-Orozco was originally scheduled to be sentenced on Monday after he was convicted last November of killing Rebecca Ramirez and her children, Miguel and Ricardo, in 2002...

Last week's snowstorm left the roads slick with ice and kept emergency service crews around the county busy dealing with numerous slide-offs, a few jackknifed trucks and the occasional rollover. Law enforcement authorities said most of the accidents were caused by drivers driving too fast for conditions...

During a brief ceremony Monday morning, county officials welcomed a new commissioner to the three-person board during a swearing in ceremony. Franklin "Bud" Corbus was officially sworn in by county clerk Barbara Steele to replace retiring commissioner Arlie Shaw...

Dear editor: In response to your call for gun control, it seems like most people that want to ban "assault riffles" you included don't realize that there ARE uses for hunting with them, varmint control is one way that they are useful, and there are also nationwide events for using AR15's for "target shooting skills...."...