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Michael John Descharme Sr. Michael John Descharme Sr., called "Micky" and "Mr. Mike, " our dear dad, beloved husband, brother and uncle, and our sweet "poppa," began his journey home to the creator on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011. He passed peacefully after a six-month battle with lung cancer, surrounded by his family and friends, at St Patrick's Hospital in Missoula. Mike was born on Aug. 29, 1934, to James Descharme and Anna Rose Sangray, on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. He was the third of 12 children. He resided there until...
Our mother, grandma, and friend didn't take any earthly things with her when she passed away Friday, Jan. 14. The final days of Sandy Peterson of Chelan were spent surrounded by family and friends who she had touched throughout her memorable life. She took people with her. She took the relationships that she had with people she got to know over her life. She took moments of joy and awe and love. We now know she is with us, watching as we continue on our journey. She was beautiful, strong, genuine, and compassionate. Even in h...
Sen. overseeing DUI reform cited, open container HELENA — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee overseeing sweeping reform to the state's drunk driving laws says a recent open container ticket resulted from poor judgment. Republican Committee Chairman Jim Shockley of Victor is also gearing up for a run at the office of Montana attorney general. Shockley says he was driving home from Helena last Friday when he stopped to buy a beer, his second of the evening. Missoula police pulled him over and issued an open a... Full story
HELENA — Lawmakers aiming to crack down on drunk driving made it clear Wednesday that the state's relatively lax laws on driving drunk very likely could get a makeover over the next several months. The spotlight on repeat drunk driving has intensified over the past couple of years following some high-profile deaths and a promise from policymakers to do something about it. House and Senate committees meeting Wednesday and Thursday were looking over 17 proposals that included everything from tougher penalties to more t...
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut announced Wednesday that he will not seek a fifth term, ending a political career spanning four decades in which he evolved from a reliably Democratic state legislator into an independent U.S. senator who backed the war in Iraq and the Republican candidate for president. While Lieberman's supporters lamented his decision not to run in 2012, many constituents, especially Democrats, said they were pleased because the "Joe" they knew as a state lawmaker and activist s...
Friday High School Basketball Havre girls vs Belgrade, 5:30 p.m. Havre boys vs Belgrade, 7 p.m. Turner vs Havre freshman, 6 p.m. Chinook girls at Dodson, 6 p.m. Chester/J-I girls vs Sunburst, 6 p.m. Chester/J-I boys vs Sunburst, 7:30 North Star girls vs Big Sandy, 6 p.m North Star boys vs Big Sandy, 7:30 Rocky Boy girls vs Harlem, 6 p.m. Rocky Boy boys vs Harlem, 7:30 High School Wrestling Havre at Class A Duals in Belgrade College Basketball Skylights vs Carroll College, 6 p.m. Lights vs Carroll College, 8 p.m. Saturday...
The Frontier Conference released it's Academic All-Conference Volleyball Team for the 2010 season, and five MSU-Northern players made the list. MSU-N seniors Jenna Frankino, Jordan Merrill and Liz Richards were honored, as were juniors Sierra Diehl and Tasha Dyrland. Northern had a team GPA of 3.21 for the fall season. To be eligible for the team, the student-athlete must be at least a sophomore in standing, maintain a 3.0 GPA and be enrolled at school the previous two semesters.... Full story
Due to the NFL's Pro Bowl, and Havre's Marc Mariani being named to it, the date for the Holden's Hot Wheels tournament has been moved to Feb. 12-13. There is one more week left in the Pepsi Challenge Tournament. Youth bowlers may bowl again if they so desire. It will be during league on Sunday. PBA results, Chris Barnes came out smoking as he went through four bowlers to claim the top prize of $50,000 after a weekend of bowling. This weekend the Tournament of Champions is being held in Las Vegas with $250,000 going to the cha...
If there's one thing that's becoming quite clear as it relates to Frontier Conference basketball this season, it's that nothing is clear. After just two weeks of league play on the men's side, no team is undefeated any more, and the team picked to dominate the conference this winter, Westminster College already has two losses. Westminster was beaten by Carroll College this week in Helena, and to show the respect the country has for the Frontier, the Saints jumped all the way from being un-ranked, to No. 16 in the latest in... Full story
Montana State University-Northern redshirt-freshman Max Payne is from the deserts of Prescott, Ariz. But he's certainly getting used to the Montana winters. That's because Payne is already one of the elite wrestlers in the NAIA, in what is his first full season at MSU-N. Payne, a two-time Arizona high school state champion, redshirted last season, but is having a breakout first varsity campaign for the Lights. He's had to overcome some injury problems this season, but in the most recent NAIA rankings, Payne is ranked seventh...
After some establishing of priorities, the Havre City Council voiced its support for upgrades at the ports of entry at Wild Horse and Turner. At Tuesday's meeting, the council took a second look at, and approved, a resolution to express support for port changes, including changing hours of operation. When Resolution 3580 first came up on the agenda in early December, Councilman Bob Kaul asked that the council wait until they were able to talk to representatives of U. S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester about the possible...
Improved sidewalks should be coming to different parts of Havre in the next year. Havre City Council approved three projects for the Community Transportation Enhancement Program, all of which were for sidewalk renovation. Krystal Steinmetz of Bear Paw Development Corp. told the Council that three of the projects were submitted with estimates and pleges for the nearly 14 percent match that the program requires. The first project discussed was to fix the sidewalks around the Atrium Mall downtown, between 2nd and 3rd streets... Full story
A north-central Montana legislator has proposed expanding legalized gambling in an effort to offset funding cuts to human services in the state. Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, requested Monday that the legislative services draft a bill authorizing blackjack tables, with the proceeds to be used to fund social services. Windy Boy said this morning that he was told that the Republican leadership in the state is trying to cut an additional $8 million from the state's budget in that field. "If they want to cut Medicaid...
While Montana's U. S. Sen. Jon Tester is out of the country this week, visiting U. S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, he has extended an invitation to business owners and entrepreneurs to attend his next Small Business Opportunities Workshop, in Missoula next month. This week marks Tester's second visit to Iraq — his first was in 2007 — and his first to Afghanistan. "The best way to get a picture of what's happening in Iraq and Afghanistan is to go there myself and talk with the folks making decisions and the folks with boo... Full story
Amelia Rose Campbell was born into the welcoming graces of angels on Jan. 14, 2011, at Benefis Hospital in Great Falls, Mont. A funeral Mass will be held at 10 a. m. on Thursday, Jan. 20, at St. Margaret's Church in Cut Bank, Mont. followed by burial in Crown Hill Cemetery. Whitted Funeral Chapel in Shelby is in charge of arrangements. "A person is a person, no matter how small. " — Dr Seuss She is survived by her parents, Anna and Benjamin Campbell; brother, Noah Campbell of Cut Bank; grandparents Rita Geldard Campbell of H...
YONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Even as the world changed around him, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il remained firmly in control, ruling absolutely at home and keeping the rest of the world on edge through a nuclear weapons program. Inheriting power from his father in 1994, he led his nation through a devastating famine while frustrating the U.S. and other global powers with an on-again, off-again approach to talks on giving up nuclear arms in return for energy and other assistance. Kim was one of the last remnants of a Cold W... Full story
Gov. Brian Schweitzer has ordered that flags be flown at half-staff in the state today in honor of Blaine County Undersheriff Patrick Pyette who was killed in the line of duty Wednesday. Pyette was struck by a vehicle while he was directing traffic around a disabled tractor-trailer on U. S. Highway 2 between Harlem and Chinook. Pyette's funeral began at 11 a. m. today in the Chinook High School Gymnasium. Full coverage of the funeral will be in Tuesday's Havre Daily News and in havredailynews.com....
A program to help students having trouble with the education system is finishing its first class in its third year of operation in Havre, with a graduation ceremony for the fall class in YouthBuild set for Tuesday at Montana State University-Northern. Sharon Dolph, counselor and therapist for Havre's YouthBuild program, said eight of the 15 students who originally signed up for the program this fall will graduate at the ceremony, starting at 11 a. m. in the Ballroom at Northern's Student Union Building. Dolph said the...
The speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives has said the Republican House majority will oppose a bipartisan compromise bill, which Montana's senior senator helped craft, though the bill passed the Senate Saturday 89-10. The bill would extend payroll tax cuts and long-term unemployment benefits for two months and included a requirement on the Keystone XL pipeline. Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, said this morning in a press conference in Washington that the two-month extension is unacceptable, and the two houses of Congress... Full story
John Gilbert of Great Falls is the legitimate president of the Little Shell Band of Chippewa Indians, a three-judge panel has ruled. The ruling was announced Saturday. The 4,300-member tribe, with a strong presence in Havre, has been torn by dissension during the three-year-long battle for control. Gilbert said he hoped to retrieve tribal files and equipment from the Havre office at the HRDC building, establish an office in Great Falls and begin searching for funding for the tribe. The panel's ruling deposes John Sinclair of...
Mayor Tim Solomon will ask City Council tonight to ratify his appointment of Kirk Fitch of Maricopa, Ariz., as Havre police chief. Fitch officially retired Thursday as deputy chief in Maricopa, a fast-growing city about 30 miles south of Phoenix. Fitch was a founding member of the police department in the city, which grew in population from 1,400 in 2000 to about 37,000 people now. Prior to taking the Maricopa job, he was a Phoenix police officer, where he received the city's Medal of Valor. He won the commendation after he...
Represenatives of local, state, federal and even international law enforcement and emergency service agencies joined hundreds of the family and friends of Blaine County Undersheriff Patrick A. Pyette Monday in a funeral held in the Chinook High School gymnasium. Pyette died of injuries sustained Wednesday when a vehicle struck him while he directed traffic on U.S. Highway 2 east of Chinook around a broken-down semi. Havre Daily News/JNikki Carlson Honor Guard members fold an American flag that was draped over Blaine County...
ZINTAN, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi's former heir apparent Seif al-Islam was captured by revolutionary fighters in the southern desert Saturday just over a month after his father was killed, setting off joyous celebrations and closing the door on the possibility that the fugitive son could stoke further insurrection. Seif al-Islam, once seen as a voice of reform in an eccentric and reviled regime, now faces the prospect of trial before an international or Libyan court to answer for the alleged crimes of his late father's f...
MISSOULA (AP) — A laid-off information technology administrator that a Missoula company attempted to hire back on a temporary basis after computer servers crashed was the person who hacked into the system that caused the problems to begin with, authorities said. The Missoulian reports (http://bit.ly/u4er6e ) that Vladimir Ivanovich Shved was charged Friday in District Court with two felony counts of unlawful use of a computer. His bail was set at $5,000. According to court records, the company's computer system had been d... Full story
I believe we have two choices in life: try or do nothing. For more than two months, I have been meeting with a bipartisan group of 12 members of Congress trying to address our mounting debt. I'm working day in and day out, facing this task with the determination Montanans deserve. Sen. Max Baucus This group has been called the "Super Committee," perhaps because of the unprecedented opportunity and challenge before us. But, in fact, we're simply a group of hired hands. Any authority we have comes directly, and only, from the... Full story
