Jerome News

The Eastern Snake River Plain Aquifer is recharging today, thanks to above-normal reservoir storage levels.

Local agencies say that between 5:15 and 10 am today there were 20 reported crashes or slide-offs on Interstate 84 in Jerome county, including an accident that killed a Jerome woman and injured several others.

We recently mentioned that the trial for Traci Hadden might be moved out of Lincoln County due to excessive publicity.

July 23, 1934 - Nov. 7, 2009. Master Sergeant Donald W. Hakkila, age 75 from Twin Falls, Idaho passed away on November 7, 2009.

Last week's vote for a new Jerome County Jail didn't reach its needed 66 and two-thirds percent super majority; but county authorities say that the need for a new jail didna t go away, just because the vote failed.

When it came to voters actually approving a 30 year, almost $30 Million lease for a new Jerome county jail, the final result was 'Close, But No Cigar.' Jerome County Sheriff Doug McFall said, a oeYeah, the vote was really close.

In Kootenai County in northern Idaho, a $57 million bond and half-cent sales tax to expand the county's jail fell short of the two-thirds supermajority needed to pass.

A strong cold front brought big weather changes last night; some local areas had not just wind, but snow, as well.

A Jerome man is in critical condition this morning after a single vehicle accident on Thursday.

Orla Rebecca Taylor, 87, who overcame polio to work with the disabled, died from effects of a stroke on Oct.

A new study says communities in the heart of the Idaho dairy industry are, amid falling milk prices, weathering the recession better than other rural regions of the state.

Police said that a 13-year-old girl has run away to Idaho to meet a 14-year-old boy she met on Myspace.

Voters in Jerome County will need to cast a two thirds supermajority on November 3rd, if they want to build a new jail there.

A new all purpose livestock barn is going up at the Jerome County Fairgrounds. Fair Manager Kathleen Diederich says the new building is 80 feet wide and 150 feet long; she says it's finally being built after having the money set aside for a year.

Andrea Brandon knocked on her daughter's bedroom door Wednesday morning, but there was no answer.

A 19-year-old Jerome man is dead and police are reminding people the dangers of driving if you are tired.

The members of the Dublin Jerome High School homecoming court were : Jessie Kuo and Samantha Fischer; Jessica Saponaro and Kirby McKenna; Nick Sobel, Kelly Becker and Nate Moseley; Brett Carney, David Moyer and Scott Cheesman.

A 64-year-old Jerome man is presumed drowned after his fishing boat capsized along the Snake River.

The United Dairymen of Idaho has teamed up with the NFL to launch a new nutrition program.

As more people return to hanging their laundry outside to dry to save energy, conflicts have arose in many communities that have banned the practice, and in Colorado and three other states, the state legislatures got involved and passed a law that local entities could not prohibit clotheslines; Utah and Florida already have such a law; and Oregon ...