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Both the Havre High boys and girls basketball teams were victorious Saturday afternoon at the HHS gymnasium. The Blue Pony girls beat Livingston 61-40 to remain unbeaten in the Central A, while the Pony boys turned back the Rangers, 62-52. Both HHS team's are in action Monday with the girls home to face Browning, while the boys hit the road to visit the Browning Indians. Havre's Nate Rismon, right, dribbles toward a Livingston defender during Saturday's boys basketball game in Havre. For full coverage, see Monday's Havre...
WASHINGTON — Pressing toward his second term, President Barack Obama touted "the importance of giving back" as he kicked off three days of inaugural celebrations Saturday with a National Day of Service. AP Photo/Susan Walsh First lady Michelle Obama stains a bookshelf at Burrville Elementary School in Washington, Saturday, as the first family participated in a community service project for the National Day of Service as part of the 57th Presidential Inauguration. The president, along with first lady Michelle Obama and d...
BILLINGS — A Montana judge issued an injunction Friday allowing wolf trapping and hunting to continue outside Yellowstone National Park, as lawmakers in Helena advanced a measure to loosen restrictions on killing wolves statewide. Combined, the two actions pave the way for a further ratcheting up of Montana's efforts to curb gray wolf numbers less than two years after they came off the endangered species list. Friday's decision from state District Judge Brenda Gilbert came after state wildlife commissioners attempted to c...
BILLINGS — Police are searching for two armed suspects who purported to be FBI agents when they allegedly kidnapped an Illinois man from a Montana hotel room. Police in Billings said Friday that 29-year-old Dejuan Laster is missing after two men showed up at the Extended Stay hotel where Laster was staying with an unidentified woman. After brandishing handguns and claiming to be federal agents, police say the suspects zip-tied the woman and questioned her extensively about Laster before releasing her. Laster has not been s...
HELENA — A measure to strip jail time for some first-time misdemeanor offenders, leaving just fines in place, easily cleared the Montana Senate on Friday despite opposition from county attorneys. The proposal would mean that the state would no longer have to provide public defenders for those charged with the crimes. Backers argue it would save money, ease crowding in jails and free up busy public defenders. The Senate unanimously approved the measure 47-0. It faces another set of hearings in the House. The list of o...
DENVER (AP) — Imagine a political change favored by an overwhelming majority of voters but mostly ignored by politicians. That's what campaign finance activists in Colorado and Montana are facing these days. They're scratching their heads at why politicians aren't talking more about campaign finance just two months after voters in both states, by wide margins, approved a ballot measure calling for federal changes to limit campaign spending. Activists gathered in the Colorado Capitol basement Friday to remind politicians of t...
AUSTIN, Texas — Thousands of gun advocates gathered peacefully Saturday at state capitals around the U.S. to rally against stricter limits on firearms, with demonstrators carrying rifles and pistols in some places while those elsewhere settled for waving hand-scrawled signs or screaming themselves hoarse. The size of crowds at each location varied — from dozens of people in South Dakota to 2,000 in New York. Large crowds also turned out in Connecticut, Tennessee and Texas. Some demonstrators in Phoenix and Salem, Ore., came w...
BILLINGS (AP) — A Billings man has pleaded guilty to his 13th driving under the influence charge. The Billings Gazette reports that 55-year-old William Dean Grussing pleaded guilty Friday in district court. Grussing is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 12 for the DUI from last June. If he's designated a persistent felony offender, he could receive up to five years in state custody. Grussing also pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of contempt of court....
Skylight Kylee Denham looks to score during Saturday night's double-overtime game at the Armory Gymnasium. The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team had a Frontier Conference home sweep in its sights Saturday night at the Armory Gymnasium. Instead, the Skylights watched lewis-Clark State slip out of Havre with a thrilling, double-overtime, 78-76 win. The Skylights and Warriors went back and forth in the final 20 minutes of regulation, until LCSC seized cont...
MSU-N's Devin Jackson drives to the basket during Saturday night's game with Lewis-Clark State at the Armory Gymnasium. The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team had a chance to seize control of the Frontier Conference, but the Lewis-Clark State Warriors had other ideas. Saturday night at the Armory Gymnasium, the third-ranked Warriors bounced the 12th-ranked Lights, 79-65 in a nationally-ranked showdown. The loss was the second in three games for the...
Both the Havre High boys and girls basketball teams were victorious Saturday afternoon at the HHS gymnasium. The Blue Pony girls beat Livingston 61-40 to remain unbeaten in the Central A, while the Pony boys turned back the Rangers, 62-52. Both HHS team's are in action Monday with the girls home to face Browning, while the boys hit the road to visit the Browning Indians. Havre's Nate Rismon, right, dribbles toward a Livingston defender during Saturday's boys basketball game in Havre. For full coverage, see Monday's Havre...
With the first annual Central A softball tournament taking place over the weekend in Havre, one thing is clear, the Central A will be well represented at the Class A state tournament this weekend in Belgrade. Friday and Saturday, the Lewistown Golden Eagles, Livingston Rangers, Belgrade Panthers, Havre Blue Ponies, and Browning Indians, all battled it out for a spot in the Class A state tournament. The inaugural Central A tournament was played at the Sixth Avenue Memorial Softball Filed in Havre, where the Panthers were crown...
Heading into the weekend, I think the verdict was still out on the decision to begin having a Central A divisional softball tournament. I had heard arguments for and against the idea. But after sitting through a lot of great Class A softball on Friday and Saturday in Havre, I don't think the tournament could have played out any better. Yes, watching the Havre High Blue Ponies take one of the top three spots, and punch their ticket to state after a 3-5 regular season conference record, would have been the icing on the cake,...
The divisional track meet means the last opportunity to push kids into the Class A state meet, and the Havre High track and field teams had a good number of kids step up. Competing in Livingston on Friday and Saturday, at the Central A divisional meet, the Blue Ponies were well represented. And though neither team earned a team title, a lot of individual athletes have a lot to be proud of, with just the state meet remaining this season. Belgrade has the numbers that make it very hard to contend with in the Class A ranks. And...
It was clear that the Havre High softball program was hungry for a Class A state tournament berth, especially near the end of the season, as the Blue Ponies played their best softball. But as the Central A conference proved to be a very tight race, the Ponies were left out yet again. Havre's Paige Henderson takes a swing during a 2013 Central A loser-out game against the Livingston Rangers Friday night at the Sixth Avenue Memorial Field in Havre. The Ponies' season ended at the hands of the Rangers. The Ponies finished the...
A year ago, the Havre High boys and girls tennis teams took just four total players to the Class A state tournament. Fast forward one year, and the Blue Ponies doubled that total following a highly successful Central A Divisional tournament. From Thursday afternoon to Saturday evening the Ponies battled the elements, and tough teams from Lewistown, Livingston and Anaconda, as well as having to move the tournament from Lewistown to Great Falls on Saturday, in the 2013 Central A meet. The Havre High boys and girls tennis teams...
MISSOULA (AP) — A former Missoula man who once organized traveling clinics for people seeking medical marijuana cards has been found guilty of intimidation for a 2010 phone call in which he threatened to bomb a cellphone retailer. The Missoulian reports (http://bit.ly/103VYCT) jurors took 40 minutes Thursday to return the verdict against Jason Christ. Christ represented himself. He told jurors he didn't really mean it when he told a store employee that he needed to talk to someone who could get something done or: "I'm g...
BILLINGS (AP) — A 54-year-old Billings man has been convicted of his 13th instance of driving under the influence after jurors rejected his argument that he drove away from his house last summer because he felt threatened by a neighbor. The Billings Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/ZDO6Iq) jurors convicted John Harvey Hoots on Thursday. His attorney argued state law allows a person to commit a crime to avoid serious injury or death. Hoots testified he feared his neighbor. The neighbor testified he called 911 on July 31 to r...
BOZEMAN (AP) — Former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer says his position on gun control is one reason he couldn't step onto the national political stage. Political pundits have mentioned Schweitzer as a possible candidate for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/Z8TA2e ) a bearded Schweitzer told some Montana State University students on Thursday that he couldn't give an acceptable answer to voters in states like Iowa and Florida if they asked him about gun control. H...
WATERTOWN, Mass. — The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle overnight that left one of them dead and his brother on the run, authorities said Friday as thousands of officers swarmed the streets in a manhunt that paralyzed the Boston area. The suspects were identified by law enforcement officials and family members as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechen brothers who had lived in Dagestan, which neighbors Chechnya in s...
The Creator has called George Paul Horse Capture Sr., "Nay Gyagya Nee" (Spotted Otter), 75, to the Big Sands on April 16, 2013. He was born and raised in Montana, a proud member of the A'aninin (Gros Ventre) tribe. He passed away from acute renal failure, complications of diabetes and congestive heart failure at his home in Great Falls, Montana surrounded by family. The community wake will be held at the Red Whip Center, Fort Belknap Agency, on Saturday, April 20, at 5 p.m. Funeral services will be held at the same location...
John Wolfgang Goebel John Wolfgang Goebel was born Aug. 20, 1924, near Townsend, Mont., to homesteaders Nicholas and Frieda (Wolff) Goebel. After his mother died when John was just 2 years old, he was taken in by Mrs. Carroll, a registered nurse who cared for others in her home since Townsend did not have a hospital, while his father ran the farm for the Sisters of Charity orphan's home in Helena. He was raised with siblings Frank Carroll and Kathryn (Robert) Miller, formerly of Helena. While in high school, next door to...
Montana's unemployment rate remained at 5.6 percent in March, while the national rate edged down by 0.1 percentage points to 7.6 percent. In a reverse trend compared to what happened during the heart of the recent recession, the jobless rate in the Hi-Line was higher than it was statewide. Over-the-year job growth remains positive, but employment growth has slowed both nationally and in Montana, Labor Commissioner Pam Bucy said. "Last month, Montana was only 2,000 jobs away from regaining its pre-recession payroll employment...
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said in a telephone press conference Thursday that the federal budgeting process, with a focus on reducing deficit spending, and the implementation of across-the-board cuts, called sequestration, will make it more difficult to continue increasing hours at an international border crossing north of Havre, but the effort is not dead. Tester reiterated his opposition to using across-the-board cuts to reducing deficits — he has repeatedly said targeted cuts, reducing or eliminating spending to specific p...
Montana's junior U.S. senator expressed disappointment over Wednesday's failure to pass a proposal to strengthen background checks in some gun sales. "It was an interesting day," Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said in a telephone press conference from Washington. Tester and U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., split their vote on a plan proposed by Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., and Patrick Toomey, R-Penn., designed to prevent criminals and the seriously mentally ill from purchasing firearms. Checks now are required only when guns are purch...
