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A Havre man has been charged with incest in a case involving a teenager. Robert McConnell, of Havre, born in 1980, was officially charged with three counts of incest Jan. 20. He pleaded not guilty Monday to all three counts before District Judge Dan Boucher. According to court documents, Havre Police Officer Jesse Eller responded to a report Nov. 5. Once Eller arrived on the scene, he talked to a 15-year-old girl. The girl reportedly said she did not want to go home because she was afraid of her relative, McConnell. The girl... Full story
HELENA (AP) - Members of an anti-abortion group gathered Wednesday at the Montana Capitol in support of a proposed state constitutional amendment that would define human life as beginning at conception. Annie Bukacek, a Kalispell physician and president of the Montana Prolife Coalition, said the proposal is designed to stop the killing of unborn children. "It is designed to stop the killing and not regulate the killing," she said, referring to other laws that place... Full story
HELENA (AP) — Republican lawmakers have proposed three bills in the House Judiciary Committee to augment Montana gun laws. Rep. Kerry White's House Bill 371 would allow people with concealed carry licenses to take concealed guns into bars and banks. Opponents say the measure could also allow for guns in schools. Rep. Bill Harris' House Bill 298 would nullify Montana's concealed carry permit system. The least contested of the three, Rep. Carl Glimm's House Bill 320, would remove an existing requirement for school boards to a... Full story
Harlem, Chinook and Malta will conduct a study to see what kinds of housing are needed in their communities. Possibilities include projects such as low-to-middle income housing, apartments for senior or single family homes to help convince people to stay in the rural communities. Preparation for the study will begin as early as two weeks from now. The work will be done with a $45,000 grant announced by Gov. Steve Bullock Tuesday. Paul Tuss, executive director of Bear Paw Development Corp., which secured the grant for the thre...
Editor: To the people of Havre and the staff and students at Montana State University-Northern, I just want to express my concern to learn by way of the Monday article in the Havre Daily about the psychic-paranormal investigator and tarot card reader that Northern's Student Union has chosen to bring on campus for supposed entertainment. This is not suitable for a college campus. It's certainly not acceptable that he is paid $4,000 for this. Students might see this as just a fun amusing thing, but it has a very dark spiritual... Full story
For the decade-plus I have served, I have consistently refused to be intimidated into taking votes or signing pledges demanded by out-of-area special interest groups, insisting instead to always review legislation while listening to those I represent. Sadly, Montana, with its low population, is considered a "cheap date," thus is a favorite place for out-of-state "policy tanks" to lobby outcomes and do legislative experiments. Consider for example this past summer when... Full story
Editor’s note: The computer program provided by the Montana state government to print media reports on court actions does not always list all fines assessed. The following cases were resolved in Hill County Justice Court by Judge Audrey Barger in November. Sean Richardson, born in 1991, was fined $100 and given a deferred imposition of sentence for each of two counts of issuing a bad check and was ordered to pay $700 restitution in the case. —— Andrew Slender, born in 1978, forfeited $100 bond for subscribing or making any s... Full story
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Although letters to the editor and newspaper editorials around the state have endorsed the idea, no one showed up at a public hearing Tuesday in favor of the proposal to raise the daytime speed limit to 85 mph on Montana highways. The bill would raise the limit on two-lane highways, such as U.S. highways 2 and 87, to 80 mph. The sponsor, Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, presented the proposal to the Highways and Transportation Committee Tuesday, giving his reasons for... Full story
A proposed $400,000 allocation for the biodiesel research center at Montana State University-Northern is being used as a political game in Helena, State Sen. Kris Hansen said. Hansen, R-Havre, said the allocation was not included in Gov. Steve Bullock's budget. This is the third legislative session in a row that the governor has not put the money in the budget. The last two sessions, legislators restored the funding. "They (the governor's office) are using this as a... Full story
There is a vacancy on the Great Northern Fair Board. Lois Ann Nichols, deputy clerk of the Hill County Board of Commissioners, said Chad Murnin, a board member is no longer part of the fair board. “We had a term that came to an end and (Chad) no longer lives in Hill County. He still works here in Havre, but he moved out of the county,” she said. The commissioners are now looking for someone to replace Murnin. Nichols added that the term for this position will expire Jan. 1, 2018. For more information, contact the Hill Cou... Full story
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At the Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday at Havre High School, the board voted in favor of working with My Neighbor in Need. The school’s faction of My Neighbor in Need will be called Student in Need and aims for the same goal: to provide people a way to anonymously give to those in need. The difference between Student in Need and My Neighbor in Need is that more of an emphasis is made on keeping those who need help anonymous. My Neighbor in Need is a program in which people who need a little help with s...
Press release MISSOULA — The University of Montana will host a National Endowment for the Humanities 2015 Summer Institute titled “Indigenous Literary Studies through Global Conversations” June 22-July 17. The tuition-free, four-week professional development institute will provide high school teachers and advanced graduate students with increased knowledge of indigenous people from those peoples’ perspectives. For application guidelines visit the institute’s website at http://indigenouslit.org. Applications are due no later...
Havre Police Department Crystal Dawn Horn, 42, of Havre was arrested on charges of criminal contempt, driving with a suspended or revoked driver's license and failure to carry or produce proof of insurance and Patrick George Cole, 35, of Harlem was arrested on a charge of obstructing a peace officer after an officer made a motor vehicle stop at 2:38 p.m. Tuesday on 8th Avenue. —— Officers responded to a 3:44 p.m. Tuesday call from 11st Street West and Boulevard Street about a two-vehicle, noninjury motor vehicle crash. Hil... Full story
Wilma Inez (Dent) Berge was born Aug. 6, 1927, at Corsicana, Texas. She was one of two children born to Exa Delana Dodson and William Thomas Dent. Inez received her early education at Martin's Mill, Texas. She finished her secondary education at New London, Texas, where she graduated from high school in 1945. During her high school years Inez excelled in home economics. She met a young Montana farmer, Sam W. Berge, an Army recruit who was stationed in Texas for a short while... Full story
Mary A. Ereaux, 87, of Fort Belknap, passed away on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015, at Northern Montana Hospital. Wake and rosary services will begin at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015, at Medicine Bear Lodge in Lodge Pole and will continue until her funeral service, which will be at 11 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. Interment will follow at Beaver Creek Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements, and you can leave your memories and... Full story
MSU News Service Computer workshops on the 2014 Farm Bill will be held at Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy’s Indian reservations. The programs will be put on by Montana State University Extension, in partnership with U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency. The Fort Belknap program is today, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Aaniiih Nakoda College Library. Rocky Boy’s meeting will be Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Kennewach Building on the Stone Child College campus. They are part of a series of workshops being held... Full story
Montana Prep Basketball Standings BOYS Central A Conf. Overall Belgrade 6-2 10-5 Havre 4-3 11-5 Browning 3-3 8-8 Lewistown 2-4 7-9 Livingston 2-5 6-10 Southwestern A Conf. Overall Dillon 7-0 13-1 Butte Central 6-2 10-5 Corvallis 4-3 7-8 Anaconda 3-6 3-12 Hamilton 2-5 4-11 Stevensville 1-7 2-13 Northwestern A Conf. Overall Columbia Falls 6-0 13-3 Whitefish 4-2 7-8 Frenchtown 3-4 6-9 Polson 1-4 4-10 Libby 1-5 2-13 Eastern A Conf. Overall Laurel 5-2 10-4 Billings Central 4-3 8-6 Sidney 4-3 10-5 Miles City 5-4 7-8 Hardin 3-5 9-6... Full story
For the past two years, on this very day, I've sat in front of a computer screen and basically whined about not being able to go cover the annual All-Class state wrestling tournament. Now, here I am again, thinking about the same exact thing. But, I promised myself I wouldn't do it. I promised myself I wouldn't complain about the fact that for the third straight year, I won't be inside the Rimrock Auto Arena Friday and Saturday covering what I consider to be the biggest sporti... Full story
The Havre Ice Hawks high school hockey team got back on the ice after a week off, and they continued their recent string of good play. Playing two games on Kalispell’s outdoor rink last weekend, the Ice Hawks came away with one tie and a win over the Flathead Fusion. Last Friday, the Ice Hawks tied the Fusion 1-1, then turned around Saturday and dominated Flathead 4-1. In the second game of the weekend, Ice Hawk’s goalie Josh Emge stopped 45 Flathead shots, as he was bri...
The Havre High girls basketball team has done some incredible things already this season. But one feat the Blue Ponies weren't quite able to accomplish was taking all four games against their Class AA rivals. Havre had a chance to do just that Tuesday night as the Blue Ponies took on the CMR Rustlers in a makeup game in Great Falls. But having already beaten the Rustlers two weeks ago in Havre, the Ponies came up on the short end of the second go-around Tuesday night at the... Full story
Three weeks is all that stands between Frontier Conference basketball teams and the postseason. And on the women's side, things are going to be heated right to the bitter end. For the fifth week in a row, five Frontier teams remained ranked in the NAIA Women's Coaches Poll, which was released Tuesday afternoon. The Montana State University-Northern Skylights are still ranked No. 11 after the Skylights swept Lewis-Clark State, then ranked No. 21 and Montana Tech. Northern's... Full story
Tate Niederegger has a chance to write his own chapter in wrestling history in Billings Tate Niederegger is only participating in his second year of high school athletics, but already, the Chinook Sugarbeeter sophomore is making a name for himself, especially on the wrestling mat. Chinook has a long and storied history of wrestling excellence, and it appears as though the next great Beeter wrestler is already there in the form of Niederegger, who has followed up a fabulous... Full story
When February rolls around, the wrestling community in Montana gets hyped up for the annual All-Class State Tournament in Billings. But, for years now, before fans get to Billings, there’s a score to be settled between the Treasure State’s only two college wrestling programs. And that score will get settled tonight in Great Falls when the No. 3 Montana State University-Northern Lights visit the No. 5 University of Great Falls Argos in a showdown of NAIA powers. The dual is... Full story
