Stories from Thursday, October 16, 2014

For 18 Mountain Home Tiger football players, Friday night marked their final game in front of the home crowd, as Mountain Home honored them with pre-game Senior Night festivities. The night ended with a 67-18 loss to the Skyview Hawks at Tiger Field...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers lost on the road at Skyview and Kuna last week in conference volleyball. Skyview 3, Mountain Home 0 The Lady Tigers played hard, but lost in three straight last week at Skyview, losing the first set 8-25, dropping the second 18-25 and the third 17-25...

A program making its debut in the Mountain Home School District is giving students a chance to gain hands-on technical experience while giving local schools additional resources to maintain their computer systems. Known as the Mouse Squad, it aims at helping a handful of high school students go on to become computer technicians and network engineers...

Many cheered while others shed tears of joy as families welcomed home hundreds of airmen from Mountain Home Air Force Base on Friday evening. Aircrews and maintenance specialists from the 391st Fighter Squadron had spent the past four months in the Pacific region as part of a regularly scheduled deployment...

Anita Jean Landis, 55, passed away in her home after a long brave battle with cancer, Oct. 15, 2014. She was surrounded by her loved ones. On Monday, Oct. 20, 2014, a viewing will be held from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m., and funeral services will begin at 11 a.m. all at the American Legion Hall in Bruneau. Burial will follow at the Bruneau Cemetery...

1929 - 2014 Lavell passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, at home surrounded by his loving family following a courageous battle with cancer. He was one of seven children born to Claude and Earlena Page in Carthage, Miss., on May 19, 1929. He came from a family of sharecroppers and cotton farmers...