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After deliberating more than 4½ hours, a jury today was unable to reach a verdict in the main charge in the Shane Johnson murder trial in Havre, but convicted Johnson of the lesser included offense of negligent homicide. Johnson, born in 1968, was accused of murder in the Nov. 9 death of his brother, Travis Johnson. The state accused Shane Johnson of taking a pistol and assaulting his brother after the two had been in a fight, in which Travis Johnson punched his brother including giving him a bloody nose. Shane Johnson said...
The judge in the Shane Johnson murder trial today, over objections from both sides of the case, instructed jurors both to consider whether Johnson acted in self defense in the Nov. 9 death of his brother, Travis Johnson, and to consider a lesser charge if they find him not guilty of deliberate homicide. After nearly two hours of discussion and argumentation over those and other issues, state District Judge Dan Boucher made his rulings this morning. Shane Johnson testified Monday that he was trying to take the gun that fired...
At this point in the high school football season, the playoffs get closer with each and every week. This past weekend, teams from along the Hi-Line with the playoff aspirations had some key conference games that made for exciting action on the gridiron. The Chinook Sugarbeeters started the season with a heartbreaking loss to Great Falls Central and have been on a roll ever since. Last Friday, the Beeters kept things rolling, earning their third straight victory with a 42-36...
The defense of a man accused of murdering his brother Nov. 9 called only two witnesses in his defense Monday, with the first being the defendant himself. Shane Johnson, born in 1968, took the stand in the trial of the accusation he shot and killed Travis Johnson in the basement of the 2nd Avenue Havre home of his mother and stepfather. The defense briefly called his mother, Donna Biem, back to the stand. Johnson is accused of taking out a pistol, that he kept in his bedroom, and shooting Travis Johnson following a fight in wh...
Havre Police Department A noninjury motor vehicle crash between a silver Jeep and green Dodge was investigated after officers responded to an 11:06 a.m. Monday call from 1st Street. —— Tammie Laforge, 47, of Great Falls was issued a summons on a charge of shoplifting after officers responded to a 1:05 p.m. Monday call from a 1st Street business about a noncombative female shoplifter. —— Sharman Key Gonzales, 52, of Havre was arrested on a charge of criminal contempt after officers responded to a 9:42 p.m. Monday call from 4t...
Lloyd Haymaker passed away Sept. 19, 2014, in Kalispell, Montana. He was born May 12, in Rudyard, Montana, to Emery and Edna Haymaker. Lloyd grew up on a farm north of Rudyard. Later on, he worked on farms in the area and drove truck for different firms. He was an honored veteran in the Korean Conflict and was deployed on an Army ship. It was an honor for him to serve his country. He was a loving brother and always enjoyed visits with his siblings, nieces and nephews. He was...
Longtime Montana Republican elected official Bob Brown has endorsed Sen. Greg Jergeson, D-Havre, in the race for Montana Senate District 14. Jergeson faces two-term Rep. Kris Hansen, R-Havre, in the Nov. 4 race. Brown is a former legislator including Senate president, former secretary of state and Republican gubernatorial candidate. “I have known and been in public service with State Sen. Greg Jergeson for many years,” Brown said in a press release issued by Jergeson. “Though we are from different political parties, I perso...
Some of the boarded-up windows in the St. Jude Thaddeus School's historical building are being replaced. The BNSF Railway Foundation awarded a grant of $10,000 to the school in the summer of 2013, with which the project is being completed. The windows that remain after the seven that the grant will help replace will be gradually replaced with the funding from an ongoing capital campaign, a press release from the school says. Dolls Glass of Havre was hired for the...
Candidates for state Legislature races in the Havre area will take part in a candidate forum at Havre High School, 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The Havre Daily News will sponsor the forum. Candidates in three races will take part. They are: State Sen. District 14: Republican Kris Hansen vs. Democrat Greg Jergeson. House District 27: Rob Laas (D) vs. Roy Hollandsworth (R) House District 28: Stephanie Hess (R) vs. Janet Trethewey (D). John Ita, a Havre High School civics teacher, will moderate the forum. Questions are being sought from...
The headcount and full-time equivalent ratios are a little down this year at Montana State University-Northern as compared to last year's numbers. One FTE unit would be one student going to Northern full-time. "We were anticipating a decline in in enrollment based on the decision we made to reduce the number of students in our pre-nursing and nursing programs," said Jim Potter, director of university relations at Northern in a press release. He added that there are 57 fewer...
Long distance runners from Rocky Boy and Harlem are having a good fall so far. And both teams were in action at different cross country meets this past weekend. Rocky Boy runners raced in the Cut Bank Invitational last Saturday, and though neither the boys nor girls teams had enough runners for a team score, plenty of Stars did quite well. Leading the way for Rocky Boy was Tristen Belgarde, who won the boys race with a time of 17:33. It was Belgarde’s third win of the s...
It was certainly a busy weekend of high school volleyball on the Hi-Line. And when the dust settled on the last three nights of action, area teams had reached the halfway point in the 2014 season. North Star got a big weekend off to a perfect start by going to Big Sandy and winning handily Thursday night. The Knights beat the host Pioneers by scores of 25-8, 25-11 and 25-14 in a match that was lopsided from the start. Sheridan Spicher totaled six kills and Mackenzie Hansen had...
On the last weekend in September, the realization hit home that the fall sports season is already half over. It’s already getting to be crunch time in high school football season and volleyball season, and with that, the snow flakes won’t be far behind. We also saw, or at least hear plenty of exciting and interesting things from this past weekend in sports in our area. And here a few things we saw that might not have been highlighted in Monday’s Hi-Line Sports Roundup. At Sa...
Shane Ketchum, Box Elder Football The Box Elder Bears are in the thick of the Class C Six-Man playoff race. And a 65-21 win at Heart Butte last weekend certainly helped. In that game, junior Shane Ketchum caught nine passes and scored four touchdowns to help lead the Bears to victory. Ketchum, who’s also a star distance runner at Box Elder, caught TD passes of 22, 22 and 33 yards from Brandon The Boy, and he also scored on a 47-yard run in the fourth quarter. Ketchum plays s...
There wasn’t much of a shake up at the top of the newest NAIA Football Coaches Poll. But there was a shake up in the Frontier Conference that affected the poll. The New NAIA Top 25 was released Monday afternoon, and four Frontier teams remain ranked. However, with Eastern Oregon’s last-second win at Rocky Mountain College last Saturday in Billings, the Mountaineers jumped up five spots in the new poll, while the Battlin’ Bears tumbled. EOU moved up to No. 17 this week, while...
