Stories from Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Fire destroyed two store fronts on Main Street Sunday, leaving the structures, containing LA Fashion and a children's church area for Abundant Life Church next door, damaged beyond repair. Fire Chief Phil Gridley said the fire call came in at 5:45 a.m. ...

More than two dozen citizens offered testimony during a public hearing on an appeal of the Elmore County Planning and Zoning Commission's decision to approve a conditional use permit for the Bernie Brown dairy on Jan. 12. It has been nearly a year since Brown first submitted the preliminary site plan and nutrient management plan to P&Z. ...

The prosecution continued its case in the first-degree murder trial of Albert Ciccone last week, calling witnesses to try and recreate the scene of the incident where Ciccone is alleged to have run over his pregnant wife on Ditto Creek Road on Oct. 16, 2003, and trying to show that the couple had a tempestuous relationship...