Stories from Tuesday, November 4, 2014

The Westside Trailer Court in Mountain Home was temporarily evacuated Tuesday afternoon after a possible grenade was discovered. According to Officer Melanie Broughton, a spokesperson with the Mountain Home Police Department, a woman at the trailer park was cleaning out her storage unit at another location and brought her property home.

The state attorney general's office issued a warning earlier today regarding a telephone-related voting scam happening across the state on election day. Complaints reported to the attorney general's consumer protection division indicate that someone is calling potential voters and offering to pay them $25 for their votes...

The "R" held serve in Elmore County during Tuesday night's general election, with virtually every Republican on the ballot winning handily in the county based on unofficial returns at press time. In Legislative District 23, House Seat B, incumbent Republican Pete Nielsen was re-elected to a seventh term in the Idaho Legislature with 3,081 votes in Elmore County, easily outdistancing Democrat Spike Ericson, who garnered 1,303 in the county and Independent C.J. ...