Ryan Frieder poses outside the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, where the young military doctor began his pay back to the Navy for a scholarship he received to go to medical school. Courtesy photo. Adulthood can hand a person awesome responsibilities. In the case of 1993 Wood River High School graduate Lt.

Air Force Capt. Donna Kohout, an F-117 fighter pilot, was the keynote speaker at the David Ketchum American Legion Hall on Veterans Day. On Veteran's Day a young aviator dropped in to share dinner and swap war stories at the David Ketchum American Legion Hall. Joe Miczulski, a retired Sonarman First Class who hunted submarines on a destroyer during the Korean War, was excited to hear what the soft-spoken Capt.

In a surprise court hearing Thursday in Hailey, Daniel D. Hunt pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge in connection with an early morning altercation May 16 with Thomas P. Algiers, who later that morning was killed in a police standoff. Fifth District Magistrate Judge Ted Israel accepted Hunt's plea and sentenced him to 135 days in the Blaine County Jail.

After less than an hour of deliberation Wednesday, a six-member jury in a coroner? s inquest into the May shooting death of Thomas Patrick Algiers by Blaine County Sgt. Curtis Miller ruled that the police shooting of the long time Ketchum inhabitant was not caused by criminal means. Algiers, 46, was killed near a campsite in the dense woods west of the bike path and south of the River Run Lodge parking lot shortly before 3 a.m.

WWII Japanese American detainees return to Minidoka for visit. When Amy Hirasawa, 85, left Idaho 60 years ago after years of internment under the War Relocation Authority, one thing she took with her was her doll named "Blondie" that saw her through the war. Former Japanese American detainee Amy Hirasawa , of Seattle, returned with other World War II prisoners to the Minidoka Relocation Center near Twin Falls last weekend.

Blaine County Prosecuting Attorney Jim Thomas and Blaine County Sheriff Walt Femling announced Monday that a coroner’s inquest will be held in a continued investigation of the police shooting death last month of Ketchum resident Tom Algiers. Blaine County Prosecuting Attorney Jim Thomas and Blaine County Sheriff Walt Femling announce Monday that an inquest will continue the investigation of the police shooting death of Thomas Algiers in May.

Idaho Adjutant Gen. John Kane was in Sun Valley this week making a case for sending Idaho’s National Guard troops to fight in Iraq, just as the U.S. mission shifts from occupying force to support units for the new interim government.

The Magic Valley Critical Incident Task Force investigating the death of Ketchum resident Tom Algiers who was slain in a police standoff was tipped off last week to the existence at the crime scene of what authorities believe to be a 9 mm slug. Idaho State Patrol Officer Cpl. Bob Bingham collects a bullet found at the scene of the May 16 shooting of Ketchum resident Tom Algiers.

Members of the Idaho National Guard were scheduled to wrap up annual training today at Gowen Field in Boise.

The complex investigation into a May 16 aggravated battery near River Run Lodge has been turned over to the Idaho Attorney General’s Office. A related police shooting is under investigation by a task force of Southern Idaho law enforcement officers. At the scene of a fatal shooting, colored flags stuck in the ground Tuesday mark the movements of police and Tom Algiers prior to his death May 16.

He lived a simple life by choice, said his sister Mary Algiers. He was often seen in the Wood River Valley walking with his dog Patty. Terra consoles Tom Algiers’ mother Peggy at a memorial gathering in his honor at the Coffee Grinder in Ketchum. Express photo by David N. "He didn’t want a lot of responsibility," she said.

A Wyoming man earlier involved in an altercation with a Ketchum man killed Sunday morning in a police standoff has been charged with aggravated battery against the shooting victim. Daniel Hunt, 44, formerly of Jackson, Wyo., was arraigned Thursday in 5th District Magistrate Court in Hailey. Hunt was arrested at 4:50 p.m.

Sheriff says officer forced to fire when victim refused to drop knife. Tom Algiers, a 25-year Ketchum resident, was shot and killed by a Blaine County deputy officer during a confrontation with police early Sunday morning. Blaine County Sheriff Walt Femling said one of his deputies was forced to shoot Algiers, 45, when he refused to heed police orders to drop a knife.

"It sounds like an outrageous cowboy move," Sivertson said. "But, it was a calculated risk. We will risk a lot to save a life."

Searchers last week found a handgun believed to have been used in a double attempted murder case in Bellevue. The disassembled 9 mm pistol was strewn in a sagebrush field adjacent to the north end of Gannett Road. Santistevan, 46, has been charged with the shootings of two Bellevue teenagers during an argument in an alley three weeks ago.

"I haven’t complained about anything since I got home. We have so much control over our lives, our security. I was actually pretty hopeful for the Iraqi people when I left. They are industrious and hard working. They’ve got that particular resource, oil. It seems to me you go back in ten years and its going to be an unbelievable place."