Stories from Thursday, April 11, 2013

Mountain Home finished second in both the girls and boys competition at Friday's home track meet. Canyon Ridge of Twin Falls won the girls meet with 103 points, seven points ahead of Mountain Home's 96. Skyview was third with 90, Kuna had 53 and Bishop Kelly brought up the rear with 12 points...

Errors plagued the Mountain Home Tigers last week as they lost three of four baseball games. Caldwell 12, Mountain Home 2 When the Mountain Home Tigers played Caldwell last Thursday at Caldwell, it was their first game in exactly two weeks, and they played like it, too, with sloppy fielding and lackluster hitting, falling to the Cougars 12-2 in conference baseball...

An airman from Mountain Home Air Force Base facing charges of first-degree murder was denied bail during a hearing April 3 at the Elmore County Courthouse. Richard R. Laubach, 20, stands accused of inflicting injuries that led to the death of his stepson, Joseph "Joey" Graham III...

Bailey Carr, left, cringes as she and Breanna Todd look at a diseased lung while Mike Parkinson highlights the consequences of smoking during Hacker Middle School's third annual Extreme Challenge event Friday afternoon. Hosted by the Center for Community Health from Elmore Medical Center, the challenge featured various discussions geared specifically for fifth graders at the school...