Stories from Wednesday, December 17, 2014

It's a tradition at the Mountain Home News each Christmas to print letters submitted to Santa Claus by local area children. These wish lists were collected with the help of the "elves" at the Mountain Home Fire Department, who were designated by Santa to help answer letters sent to the North Pole...

Elmore County has suffered several traffic accidents Wednesday morning due to roads covered with black ice. Currently accidents have occurred at mile marker 122 eastbound on Interstate 84 and mile marker 2 on State Highway 67. Drivers are advised to use caution...

Dear editor: Not long ago in Boise, I was questioned about an upside-down flag decal on my car by a woman obviously unaware of the U.S. Code. It is an internationally recognized sign of distress, not defined by "Webster's," but as per citizen, if this is still a free country...

Dear editor: First and foremost, kudos to all our first responders; City Fire Department, (volunteer firemen), Elmore County Sheriffs Department, ISP, ambulance personnel, City of Mountain Home Police Department, our volunteer COPs, dispatchers, all of you wonderful folks who do any type of volunteering, doctors and hospital staff, our military men and women, farmers/ranchers. ...

Albert Ciccone, sentenced to life without parole after his conviction in 2005 for killing his pregnant wife, has filed for post-conviction relief, seeking to have his case overturned on the grounds that his counsel was ineffective and incompetent. An initial hearing on that motion was held before Fourth District Judge Lynn Norton last week in Elmore County...

The Elmore County board of commissioners began this week to discuss whether to grant an appeal regarding a large-scale music festival planned for next summer. Monday's meeting followed a public hearing the previous week regarding the Mountain Home Country Music Festival, which could draw as many as 25,000 people to the county during the four-day event...