Stories from Thursday, December 10, 2015

Patches of ice on the roof made the trek a bit slippery as Bill Magnusson checked on the project's progress. Earlier in the day, the construction team had to clear snow from one section of the roof so they could continue their work. In one corner of the school building's roof, two men were busy setting down a section of plastic sheeting while another ran a machine that helped seal two sections together to block out the elements. ...

For the first time in a long time, the Mountain Home Lady Tigers basketball team completed a three-game sweep over an opponent. The freshman team got things started with a 56-49 victory over the Wood River Lady Wolverines. After scoring a combined 49 points in their previous three contests, the Lady Tigers played with a newfound, blistering pace...

A fallen tree triggered a power outage that left more than 1,500 customers in the Mountain Home area in the dark Thursday morning. The outage was first reported at 7:12 a.m. after the tree fell onto power lines leading to Idaho Power's substation in the vicinity of Main Street at East 6th South Street, said Julie Stutts, a spokesperson with the utility company...

Two people were transported to St. Luke's Elmore medical center Thursday morning following a three-vehicle crash. The collision occurred at the intersection of North 2nd East Street and American Legion Boulevard around 10 a.m. According to emergency responders at the scene, a city employee was driving a pickup truck was stopped for a red light in the northbound lane of North 2nd East Street when a white Ford F-350 pickup truck ran into read end the city truck...