Stories from Friday, March 14, 2014

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers open their 2014 softball season today, March 12, at home against Middleton. Second year coach Ron Nicolosi is hoping to improve upon last year's season that saw his Lady Tigers go 3-13 in league play and 6-19 overall. Nicolosi says the numbers he has out for softball has him encouraged...

Local law enforcement agencies are urging residents to remain cautious regarding an over-the-counter herbal product being sold in Mountain Home. The advisory concerns an herbal product known as kratom currently sold in local smoke shops. Sold in tinfoil packets, people use the product by chewing the leaves with others smoking it or brewing it with tea...

The first state of the Read with Ruffy program was described by organizers as "a great success" with 429 new stuffed-animal dogs donated during February. The goal had been 350 dogs, one for every second grade student in the Mountain Home School District...

Lyman Walter Richardson Jr., 88, of Mountain Home, passed away on March 9, 2014, in Boise. Graveside services were held March 13, 2014, at Mountain View Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel. Lyman was born in Neosho, Mo., on Sept. 3, 1925, the youngest of ten children of Lyman Walter Sr. and Mary Richardson...