Stories from Friday, October 17, 2014

The Mountain Home girls and boys cross country teams both finished seventh in team standings at the Canyon Ridge Run at Rock Creek Park near Twin Falls. Nampa won the girls race with 34 points. Bear River was second with 65, Wood River third with 84. Next came Firth at 137, Filer with 159, Canyon Ridge with 162 and Mountain Home in seventh with 163. Kimberly was eighth (166), Minico, ninth (171) and Twin Falls, 10th (252)...

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers opened the District III 4A soccer tourney with a loss at Skyview. Earlier in the week, Mountain Home lost to Kuna and tied with Caldwell. Kuna 7, Mountain Home 0 Kuna scored two goals in the first three and a half minutes of the first half, and added another goal three minutes later as the Lady Kavemen spoiled Mountain Home's Senior Night with a 7-0 conference win over the Lady Tigers in girls soccer...

Mountain Home High School's Encore Company will present "The Wizard of Oz" at 7 p.m. Oct. 23 to 25 in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium. The play tells the story of Dorothy Gale from Kansas, who dreams of a better place "somewhere over the rainbow." After being struck unconscious during a tornado, Dorothy and her dog, Toto, are transported to the magical Land of Oz. ...

The Fall Coffee House, set for Friday, Oct. 24, at Our Lady of Good Counsel Hall, 342 E. Jackson St., will debut the sixth volume of Elmore County's literary journal, "The Whistle Pig," and the second volume of its broadside series with a poem by David Scott Freer and paper by Tom Bennick...

Sylvan "Brad" Talbot, 62, of Mountain Home, passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, at a Mountain Home care center. Arrangements are under the direction of Rost Funeral Home, McMurtrey Chapel in Mountain Home.

A court date is scheduled Tuesday morning for a Mountain Home woman charged with scalding a two-year-old child. Jamie Taylor, 27, was arrested Wednesday, charged with felony injury to a child. Taylor, 27, stands accused of allowing her fiance's two-year-old child to sustain burns from scalding hot water in a bathtub at the couple's home Oct. 14...