Stories from Friday, January 9, 2015

The new year brings with it hope that the Mountain Home Lady Tigers basketball team will find the win column. They came ever so close to finding that win on their final game of the Canyon Ridge Holiday Tournament in Twin Falls after dropping the first two games of the tourney in lopsided fashion...

Belinda Rector explains the changeover to the new year to her morning kindergarten students at North Elementary School resumed Monday morning. Students across the district returned to school this week to mark the beginning of the second semester of the academic year...

Paul Flood, 70, of King Hill, is believed to have died of exposure last week after staying in his pickup truck when it apparently slid off the road just 200 yards from his home on Flood Road, east of King Hill. Elmore County Deputy Zack Parlin was dispatched to Flood's home at approximately 5:30 p.m., on Dec. 30 after receiving a welfare check request from one of the man's acquaintances. Flood's body was found in his vehicle. He had last been seen by friends on Dec. 27...

Ruth Isabelle Dawson, 83, of Grand View, Idaho, who died on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015, at a Boise hospital, funeral services will be conducted on Monday, Jan. 12, at 1 p.m. at Flahiff Funeral Chapel, Caldwell. Ruth's viewing will be held on Sunday, Jan. 11, from noon to 4 p.m. at Flahiff Funeral Chapel, Caldwell. Interment will follow at Middleton Cemetery, Middleton, Idaho...

Fire crews responded to the Gingerbread House in downtown Mountain Home at about 3:30 p.m. Friday after reports of someone smelling smoke and ozone. Fire officials believe it originated in a bad light ballast.