Stories from Friday, November 29, 2002

Brig. Gen. Irving L. Halter's tour as commander of the 366th Wing at Mountain Home AFB will come to an end in January, when he will head to duties in the Pentagon and be replaced by Col. Blair Hansen. Col. Hansen is currently at the Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Air Force, as the chief of the Combat Forces Division with the Directorate of Programs...

Larry Severson, 48, of Mountain Home, was indicted Friday by a grand jury on charges that he killed his wife, Mary, on Feb. 15, by overdosing her with sleeping pills. He was being held without bond at the Elmore County jail. The grand jury also indicted Severson on charges that he had tampered with some fat-blocker medication she had been taking by putting Drano in the capsules during January of this year, although that was not the cause of her death...