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Arthur Myron Berg Arthur Myron Berg, 94, a Kremlin farmer, master carpenter and woodworker and World War II veteran, died Thursday, Jan. 12, of natural causes at Northern Montana Care Center in Havre. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a. m. Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, at the First Lutheran Church in Havre, with Pastor Michael O'Hearn officiating. Burial with full military honors will follow at Highland Cemetery. Memorials in Arthur's honor may be made to the Kremlin Lutheran Church or the NMCC chapel piano fund. Services and...
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — Authorities renewed calls Monday for landowners near the northern North Dakota-Montana border to look for signs of a missing Montana teacher's buried body, while documents revealed one of the two suspects in her disappearance has spent time in prison. At a news conference Monday, authorities asked that "landowners and landowners only" help look for the body of 43-year-old Sherry Arnold, a math teacher from Sidney, Mont., who has been missing since Jan. 7 and is presumed dead. AP Photo/The Billings Gazet...
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Mitt Romney's four remaining challengers are keeping the spotlight on the Republican front-runner's wealth and business dealings by pressing him to release his income tax returns. Romney says he might make them public in April. By then, he hopes to have the presidential nomination in the bag. AP Photo/David Goldman Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, right, speaks during the South Carolina Republican presidential candidate debate as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Rom...
After a huge weekend sweep at home, the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team continued its ascent in the NAIA Coaches Poll. The Lights beat Montana tech on Friday night and then took care of No. 23 UM-Western on Saturday night. As a result, Northern moved up one spot to No. 12 in the latest NAIA Top 25, which was released Monday night. It's Northern highest-ever ranking under head coach Shawn Huse, who reached career win No. 200 on Saturday night in Havre....
A week ago, the Montana State University-Northern wrestling team had its longest and most difficult road trip of the season. A week later, the Lights shined. Northern took to the air to travel to Prescott, Ariz., this weekend for the Mile High Duals and Mile High Open, hosted by NAIA powerhouse Embry-Riddle University. On Friday, the Lights went a stellar 2-1 in dual action against three NCAA schools. The Lights opened the duals with a 28-16 win over former NAIA power Cal Bapt...
A lot of big games went down this week in Hi-Line boys basketball action, but while local teams saw some good wins, they al Havre High's Trey Trahant dribbles the ball during a junior varsity basketball game against Browning Friday night at the HHS gymnasium in Havre. so saw some losses. On Tuesday, the 9C Turner Tornadoes got things started with a 55-48 loss to the Havre High freshman team. The loss doesn't hurt the Tornadoes in conference standings, but the Tornadoes did see some good success against the young Ponies. This...
It was a busy week as the high school girls basketball season reached the halfway mark. That means, from here on out, teams will really be kicking it into high gear with the postseason less than a month away. The Chinook girls got things started on Tuesday with a thrilling 32-30 win over Hinsdale in Chinook. The Beeters went on an 11-0 run to start the game, but Hinsdale rallied in the second half, and Chinook had to hold off the charging Raiders in the final seconds. Taryn...
As the Havre High boys basketball team continues to try and dig its way out of the slump it has found itself in, the schedule isn't doing the Blue Ponies any favors by getting any easier. The Central A Ponies are coming out of a rough weekend, where they dropped two straight games. And now with a short turnaround, hosting th Havre High's Ryan Brandt (right) dribbles past a Browning defender during Friday night's Central A boys basketball game in Havre. The Blue Ponies return to the HHS gymnasium to host the Class B Malta...
Dave Gallick, Montana's commissioner of political practices, has been accused of serious ethics violations by the four permanent members of his staff. The staffers say Gallick has worked on his legal practice on state property, used the state's email system for his private business and has falsified time cards to indicate he was working on state business when in fact he was working for his private law firm. The allegations were included in an investigative piece in the Sunday Tribune of Great Falls. Ethical violations of...
Editor: Ken Miller puts God first. So do we. He walks the talk. Ken Miller is 100 percent pro-life at all stages of life. So are we. Ken Miller will stand up to the burgeoning federal government. So do we. He will govern Montana from within our beloved state, as dictated by Montanans, and not be a bedfellow with Washington, D.C., bureaucrats. Ken Miller will stand with other constitutionally minded governors — like Jan Brewer of Arizona — protecting our national borders. So do we. Ken Miller will reform Montana's education sy...
Most people celebrated the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. during their day off on Monday, but Montana State University-Northern's Campus Corps is offering an opportunity for more active reflection on the civil rights icon and his message Wednesday. From noon to 1 p. m. Wednesday in the Student Union Building's Ballroom, the group is hosting an art show, featuring the work of local artists and students on the subject of diversity, as well as a recitation of King's most remembered words, the "I Have A Dream" speech from the s...
A Havre man has pleaded no contest to reduced charges in the October 2010 casino robbery. Merrill Gray pleaded no contest this morning to a felony charge of assault with a weapon and a misdemeanor charge of theft stemming from the Oct. 19, 2010, robbery of Magic Diamond Casino. Gray originally was charged with felony robbery as well as the misdemeanor count of theft. Judge E. Wayne Phillips of Lewistown, presiding over the hearing, said he will work with the attorneys to set a sentencing hearing that will take place after a...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson This morning, a pink battery-operated Barbie car sits next to two blackened trailers in Clear Creek Trailer Court, along 14th Avenue, that caught on fire Sunday evening. A local family spent the end of their Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend dealing with the loss of their home. The Havre Police Department received a call about the Iron Bear family's connected mobile homes, in the Clear Creek Trailer Court, glowing and smoking at 8:20 p. m. Sunday night. According to Havre Fire Chief Dave...
Arthur Myron Berg Arthur Myron Berg, 94, a Kremlin farmer, master carpenter and woodworker and World War II veteran, died Thursday, Jan. 12, of natural causes at Northern Montana Care Center in Havre. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a. m. Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, at the First Lutheran Church in Havre, with Pastor Michael O'Hearn officiating. Burial with full military honors will follow at Highland Cemetery. Memorials in Arthur's honor may be made to the Kremlin Lutheran Church or the NMCC chapel piano fund. Services and...
The Havre High boys basketball team bounced back from a rough weekend in a big way. On Tuesday night, the Blue Ponies beat the Class B Malta Mustangs 57-43 at the HHS gymnasium. Malta came in ranked No.4 in all of Class B, but Havre played a brilliant second half and won going away. The Ponies got a game-high 19 points from senior Ryan Brandt. HHS will go on the road with games at Livingston and Belgrade this weekend. For full coverage, see Wednesday's Havre Daily News....
When Victoria's Secret shows off their next year's line of lingerie, it's more what's in them than on them that draws attention. But this year, a group of feminists hijacked the social media buzz around the event to change that, and Victoria's Secret was not happy. The artist collective, Force, launched a sweep of blogs and social networks like Twitter and Facebook with photos of underwear that were supposedly a part of the new Victoria's Secret line being released that day. Zach White In opposition to real items in the...
Like most people I know, I spent much of the weekend glued to the television set, sickened and depressed. Like most people I know, I kept vowing to turn it off and give myself a respite from news of the horrific Connecticut shooting that killed 28 people, including 20 young people. John Kelleher Like most people I know, I couldn't do it. I became fixated on the picture in Friday's Havre Daily News of a teacher. It's a teacher whose job it is to help first-graders learn the basics of life, to teach reading and arithmetic, and...
HELENA — The Montana Supreme Court has rejected a request that gay couples be guaranteed the same benefits as married couples. The court wrote in Monday's 4-3 decision the request was "overly broad" and sided with a lower court's decision last year to dismiss the lawsuit. But the Supreme Court left the door open for the couples to modify their request and try again. The couples are not asking to for the right to marry. Instead, they argue the state is constitutionally required to let them make the same decisions about t...
NEWTOWN, Conn. — A grief-stricken Newtown on Monday began burying the littlest victims of the school massacre, starting with two 6-year-old boys — one of them a big football fan, the other a mischievous, whip-smart youngster whose twin sister survived the rampage. Family, friends and townspeople streamed to two funeral homes to say goodbye to Jack Pinto, who loved the New York Giants and idolized their star wide receiver, and Noah Pozner, who liked to figure out how things worked mechanically. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer Bar...
HELENA — The Montana Supreme Court on Monday rejected an "overly broad" request that gay couples be guaranteed the same benefits as married couples. The court wrote in Monday's 4-3 decision Monday that a lower court was within its discretion when it earlier dismissed the request. But the Supreme Court left the door open for the gay couples to modify their request and try again. A Helena district court judge dismissed the six couples' case last year after state prosecutors argued that spousal benefits are limited by d...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, the influential Democrat who broke racial barriers on Capitol Hill and played key roles in congressional investigations of the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals, died Monday. He was 88. Inouye, a senator since January 1963, was currently the longest serving senator and was president pro tempore of the Senate, third in the line presidential succession. His office said Monday that he died of respiratory complications at a Washington-area hospital. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File S...
Linda K. (McGillivray) Johnson, 65, passed away at her home in Havre on Dec. 13. In honor of her request, no service will be held. The public is welcome to offer condolences to the family on Monday, Dec. 17, from 1 to 3 p. m., at the Edwards Funeral Home, 500 Indiana St., Chinook. A private burial at the Kuper Memorial Cemetery will follow....
Vacancies will be opening in the next six months, both on the Havre City Council and in Northern Montana Hospital's maternity ward, as the Dow family plans a move to Minnesota. Republican Ward 3 council member Rick Dow will step down sometime this spring, less than halfway through his first term, when his wife, obstetrician Margaret Dow, takes a job at the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "That would be a pretty tough one to turn down, " Rick Dow said this morning. "I'm just so proud. "We still care quite a bit...
The Havre school board last week made a wise decision last week when it formally approved a program whereby government teacher John Ita will take a group of 18 to Washington to attend President Barack Obama's Jan. 21 public inauguration. Because Jan. 20, the constitutionally mandated date for the inauguration, falls on a Sunday, the public ceremony will be on Monday, Jan. 21. A private swearing in will take place on Jan. 20. The trip will be a once-in-a lifetime event for the students and adults who will be going with Ita to...
After Friday's tragedy in Newtown, Conn., education leaders across the country have been shocked, saddened sympathetic and thinking about such an event in their schools. In Havre, District Superintendent Andy Carlson spent the morning visiting the schools, sitting in on staff meetings and discussing district safety procedures as well as discussing how teachers are supposed to handle talking to or taking care of students. "I think the most difficult thing is those one-to-one conversations with students, " Carlson said. "I'm...
