Stories from Friday, May 10, 2013

The Mountain Home Tigers track squad came up winners in its final track meet of the regular season, beating Kuna and Emmett in a tri-meet last Thursday at Tiger Field. Mountain Home won the girls event with 83.5 points. Emmett was second with 53 and Kuna had 49.5...

The Mountain Home Tiger tennis team opens district tourney play Thursday at Caldwell High School. The Tiger netters closed out the regular season schedule with conference losses to Nampa and Kuna. Nampa Girls 7, Mountain Home Girls 0 Nampa Boys 6, Mountain Home Boys 1...

Father Eladio Vieyra, parochial vicar for Our Lady of Good Counsel parish, leads a prayer during the 62nd Annual National Day of Prayer observance, held last Thursday at the Elmore County Courthouse. More than 50 people gathered at the local courthouse to celebrate, unite and join in prayer as part of the national observance...

Originally facing cancellation, a program that provides free meals to local children each summer gained a last-minute reprieve. Earlier this month, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Mountain Home announced it will take charge of the "Food for Thought" program...

A parent on a Mountain Home School District field trip bus was taken into custody following an incident in which he allegedly grabbed a student by the neck Thursday afternoon on the bus. Deputies from the Ada County Sheriff's Office and Idaho State Police responded to a call just after 2 p.m., believed to have been initiated by the bus driver, of a confrontation between a parent who had been accompanying his child on the field trip and a student who was not his own child...