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TIMES-NEWS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2018 A1 1 OBITUARIES A6 OPINION A9 COMICS B4 BRIDGE B7 CROSSWORD B8 DEAR ABBY B8 SUDOKU B10 JUMBLE B9 $2 Volume 114, Issue 41 A Lee Enterprises Newspaper Copyright 2018 Follow us online: facebook.com/thetimesnews twitter.com/twinfallstn PARTLY SUNNY, CHILLY 31 18 FORECAST, A10 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2018 magicvalley.com If you do one thing: Centre Stage Studios of Dance and Performing Arts will present ballet at 7:30 p.m. at the King Fine Arts Center, 1 Bob- cat Burley. Tickets are $12 general admission and $10 for senior citizens. Girls basketball battle Bruins and Tigers square SPORTS, B1 Air Force One on rails Bush funeral train was the in nearly 50 years PAGE A10 GRETEL KAUFFMAN MURTAUGH One man was killed and another injured Thursday morn- ing in a mobile home fire southwest of Murtaugh. Fire crews were called to 4250 E.

3000 N. just before 8 a.m. when someone driving by noticed the fire and called 911, Twin Falls County Office spokeswoman Lori Stewart said. There were two men inside the house when the blaze began, Stewart said. One managed to break a back window and escape.

The other was found dead inside by fire crews. The man who escaped was taken by ambulance to St. Magic Val- ley Medical Center, where he is being treated for smoke inhalation and mi- nor cuts from breaking the window. The office is not yet releas- ing the names of the men. The mobile home and at least two cars were destroyed by the blaze, Stewart said.

No other buildings were damaged. Responding crews, including Rock Creek Rural Fire Protection District and the Twin Falls Fire Department, put out the fire within an hour, she said. The fire marshal will arrive on the scene this afternoon to determine the cause of the fire. HONOLULU (AP) More than 75 years after nearly 2,400 members of the U.S. military were killed in the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, some who died on Dec.

7, 1941, are nally being laid to rest in ceme- teries across the United States. In 2015, the Defense Ac- counting Agency exhumed nearly 400 sets of remains from the National Memorial Cemetery of the in Hawaii after de- termining advances in forensic science and genealogical help from families could make cations possible. They were all on the USS Oklahoma, which capsized during the attack, and had been buried as unknowns after the war. Altogether, 429 sailors and Marines on the Oklahoma were killed. Only 35 were ed in the years immediately after the attack.

The casualties were second only to the USS Arizona, which lost 1,177 men. As of earlier this month, the agency has ed 186 sailors and Marines from the Oklahoma who were previously ed. Remains of Pearl Harbor sailors go home PAT SUTPHIN, TIMES-NEWS A dog sni around the remains of a mobile home that burned Thursday southwest of Murtaugh. 1 killed, 1 injured in mobile home near Murtaugh KEVIN RICHERT IdahoEdNews.org Originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on Nov. 26.

WEISER After Emilly Perez grad- uates from high school next spring, she will leave the town where she grew up. nitely for college. Possibly for good. Perez plans to enroll at the University of Idaho and major in political science or sociology. considering law school, or a in sociology, and sees herself working in Boise.

First, her parents will have to adjust to sending their youngest daughter to college, and she will have to adjust to being four hours from home. a pretty homey person, (but) I think be geography and miles of hilly, serpentine two-lane highway sep- arates Weiser from a college campus. A social divide also stands in the way. harder to see and possibly harder to cross and symptomatic of much of rural Idaho. A farm-based community on the Ida- ho-Oregon border, Weiser has few jobs rural students look to move on IDAHOEDNEWS.ORG Emma Burns TIMES-NEWS TWIN FALLS A Buhl man is ac- cused of choking and attempting to sex- ually assault a woman after she told him she was not interested in him romantically.

Cody Henslee, 26, is charged with one count of battery with intent to commit a serious felony. The victim, an ac- quaintance of Hens- told police she and Henslee were drinking and watching television at house Tuesday night when he told her he loved her and wanted to be her boyfriend, according to court docu- ments. The woman said she told Hens- lee she saw him only as a friend before she went to sleep in the guest bedroom. Later that night, the woman told po- lice, Henslee came into her room naked and tried to force himself on her, tell- ing her in crude terms that he wanted to have sex with her. When she yelled at him to stop, Henslee began to choke her to the point where she could not breathe and told her again that he was going to have sex with her, she said.

The woman told police she was able to get Henslee of her by kicking him in the chest. She said she then pulled out her cellphone to call 911, but Henslee knocked the phone out of her hand. Eventually, the woman said, she was able to call the police and get out of the house. The woman had marks on her neck that she said were caused by Henslee choking her, according to court doc- uments. She also told rst responders she felt a tightness in her neck and was having di culty breathing, but did not want to go to the hospital, police said.

Henslee was jailed on a $20,000 bond. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 14. Police: Buhl man tried to rape woman CHRISTINA LORDS Idaho Statesman BOISE Republicans voted Wednesday night to retain Rep. Scott Bedke as speaker of the House and Rep.

Mike Moyle as House majority leader in the Idaho Legislature, according to a press release from the Idaho House Cau- cus. Bedke, of Oakley, was rst elected speaker in December 2012 and has retained the leadership position since. He will begin his 10th term as a state legislator when the Legislature reconvenes in January. Moyle, of Star, will serve his seventh term as majority leader. Republicans also selected Rep.

Jason Monks, R-Nampa, to serve as assistant House majority leader, and Megan Blanksma, R-Hammett, to serve as majority caucus chairwoman. Rep. Bedke survives leadership challenge Advances in forensic science help identify bodies PHOTO COURTESY OF TWIN FALLS COUNTY OFFICE Fire crews battle a mobile home re Thursday southwest of Murtaugh. Bedke Henslee Will they return home after graduating from college? note After eight years, Idaho has made only limited progress toward an am- bitious goal to convince high school graduates to continue their education. What will it take to change the trends and change the lives of young Idahoans? Idaho Education News re- porter Kevin Richert has spent five months talking to students, teachers and policymakers about the goal, and the demo- graphic realities that stand in the way.

This is the second installment in an eight-part series. The Times-News will publish the series through December. Please see PEARL HARBOR, Page A5 Please see LEADERSHIP, Page A8 Please see STUDENTS, Page A8.