Stories from Thursday, April 16, 2015

The Mountain Home Tigers picked up their first conference baseball win of the season last week but let two other games get away from them. Mountain Home 2, Bishop Kelly 1 Mountain Home picked up its first conference win of the season as they edged the Bishop Kelly Knights last Tuesday at Bishop Kelly High School in Boise...

Brian Bruni, a self-defense instructor with Empowerment Training LLC in Nampa, demonstrates how to use an arm bar takedown on Deputy Jayme Freemantle from the Elmore County Sheriff's Department during a training class on Thursday. Deputies from the sheriff's department spent the day learning various techniques for subduing aggressive individuals as well as basic self-defense skills during the day...

Plans to build a charter elementary school in Mountain Home gained an initial green light after the city's planning and zoning commission voted in favor of the project. During a meeting April 6, the commission recommend the city council approved a conditional use permit submitted by the Richard McKenna charter school...