Stories from Thursday, April 7, 2016

Thursday was an especially busy day for Danniele Strain and her team. During their shift at the Mountain Home Animal Shelter, they had picked up seven dogs that were running loose through town with concerned citizens turning in two others. The story had a happy ending for six of those dogs, all of which had ID tags that had them quickly reunited them with their owners. The same wasn't necessarily true for the remaining three, who were going to remain at the shelter until someone claimed them...

A routine stop at a Mountain Home convenience store led to the arrest of two Nampa gang members on Thursday. Detectives with the Elmore County Sheriff's Department stopped at the Sunset C store to purchase beverages when they walked past a vehicle and smelled what they knew from their training and experience to be marijuana emitting from the vehicle...

Fielding a team of mostly new players, Mountain Home's tennis team battled tough but found the competition even tougher as they hosted The Community School Cutthroats from Sun Valley on Saturday. Community School Boys 5, Mountain Home Boys 0 Community School Girls 7,...

Ellen Irene (Ketchum) Bayless, 76, passed away on Wednesday, April 6, 2016, in Boise. Arrangements are under the direction of Cloverdale Funeral Home.