Stories from Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Businessman Donald Trump received the most votes among Elmore County voters but trailed Texas Senator Ted Cruz in other Idaho counties during last week's Republican presidential primary. Trump held a commanding lead among local voters with 1,252 votes, according to results released by the Elmore County Elections Office following the March 8 election...

Hacker Middle School Principal John Clark had three felony charges filed against him reduced to a single misdemeanor violation during a hearing at the Elmore County Courthouse on Friday. Clark was originally charged with two counts of sexual abuse of a person under the age of 16 with a separate count of sexual battery of a minor following accusations that he sexually abused his two stepdaughters...

Everybody else is running, I might as well too. If the general election was tomorrow, I'd simply write in my own name, since I DO trust ME. As an American, I'm more qualified than most of the current field, not because I was born here, but because I still believe in what was once this country. Times change, but right and wrong do not...

by Tim Bondy Mountain Home News Two representatives from the Mountain Home Fire Department tackled a yearly challenge that will help in the ongoing quest to find a cure for leukemia and lymphoma types of cancer. Two local fire fighters were among the 1,800 individuals competing in the 25th Annual Scott Firefighter Stairclimb, held at the Columbia Center in Seattle on March 6...