Stories from Wednesday, March 13, 2002

Judge Michael McLaughlin has given judicial confirmation to allow certificates of participation to be issued, clearing the way for Mountain Home to enter into a lease/purchase agreement for a new city police law enforcement center. The city is limited to $2.225 million in obligation with a maximum lease payment of $160,000...

Standing on the steps of the Elmore County courthouse, where he launched his political carrer less than two years ago, Commissioner Craig McCurry announced his intentions Monday to seek the Republican nomination for the District 22 House of Representatives seat (Seat A)...

Less than a week after denying it, the Kmart Corporation announced last Friday that its Mountain Home store will be among 284 it will close in the next few months as part of its efforts to reorganize under the Chapter 11 bankruptcy it filed Jan. 22...