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Jury selection is scheduled to continue next month in the trial of a Havre juvenile probation officer charged with raping the mother of one of the juveniles he supervised. Stephen David Mills of Havre, born in 1965, was charged with one count of sexual intercourse without consent in June 2014. An additional charge of attempted sexual intercourse without consent was added Feb. 5. The jury selection process began Friday and ended Monday. According to the minute entry from Tuesday, jury selection process ended after Mills’ a...
Havre's alternative arts and entertainment publication, HAVMAT, is now available at many locations and will continue to be distributed. HAVMAT, completed yesterday, was given a 500-copy trial. Copies have been distributed to the following locations: Artitudes, Atrium Mall, Bear Paw Meats, Bullhook Bottoms, 11th Street Cenex, Elite Tanning and Salon, First National Pawn, The Gallery, Golden Spike, Havre Daily News, High Plains Gallery, Holiday, McLean's Grocery, MSU-Northern...
As a part of an initiative to spread safe firearm use, the Havre Police Department is offering safety kits to anyone who wants them. The gun lock is a cable-style lock that runs through the magazine area of the weapon and prevents it from working. The lock comes with a set of keys. The kit also comes with a brochure that covers safe handling and proper storage of firearms in homes. “Years ago, we distributed them,” said acting Havre police chief Gabe Matosich. “We didn’t have any more, and people were starting to inquire...
A Box Elder man who was charged with attempted murder has been deemed unfit to stand trial. Shane Hiawatha Denny was committed to the attorney general for 45 days to “receive psychiatric or psychological examination as to whether his mental disease or defect will create a substantial risk of bodily injury to another person or serious damage to property of another.” Denney had been charged with assault with intent to commit murder, assault with a dangerous weapon and assault resulting in serious bodily injury was deemed unf...
Bear Paw Development Corp., along with the Montana Food and Agriculture Development Center Network and United States Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Program, will be sponsoring “Food Safety Management System Toolkit Training in North-Central Montana.” This will take place Tuesday, March 10, at Great Falls College Montana State University from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A press release announcing the session said the training is geared toward established food businesses, but Tiffany Melby, Bear Paw’s Food and Agriculture Devel...
MSU News Service BOZEMAN — This year’s Montana Nutrition Conference and Livestock Forum will be held April 28 and 29 at the GranTree Inn, 1325 N. 7th Ave., in Bozeman. Speakers at the “Roadmap of Tomorrow” conference will cover a wide variety of topics, including the U.S. cattle cycle and cattle prices, hay production, impacts of maternal nutrition on offspring, weaning stress, veterinary feed directives for feed-grade antibiotics, vitamin/mineral nutrition, and considerations for replacement females in beef cattle herds....
Hill County Scale Association met at noon at Wolfer’s Diner Feb. 18 for the organization’s annual winter meeting with the biggest news being that the scale has no big news. 2014 went smoothly for the association was the report from the secretary and the scale manager. Finances for the scale remain steady, said Monica Goldhahn, secretary for the association. The group also gained three new members in 2014. Memberships are all lifetime memberships that can be transferred to dir...
Montana Farm Service Agency BOZEMAN — USDA Farm Service Agency State Executive Director Bruce Nelson recenty reminded Montana farmers and ranchers that Monday, March 16, is the sales closing deadline for most noninsurable 2015 spring planted crops. The application deadline for the 2015 Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program is for all noninsurable crops except for honey, perennial forage crops intended for hay and grazing, fall seeded annual crops, and value loss crops. The 2015 sales closing dates for basic NAP c...
Rep. John Brenden, R-Scobey It is halftime at the Legislature and they call it transmittal. The Legislature has a few days off until March 5. This is when all the general bills have to be passed from one house to the other in order to be heard in their respective chamber. This first half went much better than the 2013 session. There were some disappointments in my mind. The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact passed the Senate, and I did not support the compact as I thought it was too much money and a...
Editor: I am writing this letter after finding out that the date on a gallon of milk is not an expiration date, while following the recent attempt at legislation. First, my family and friends that I have talked to have all thought the date on the container was a date that told us how long the milk was good. To my surprise, I found out that it is a date for which the seller could not sell the milk any longer and had to destroy it. To make things worse, it was testified that the milk was good for another seven to 10 days,...
Editor: Where is the outrage? Propose chickens in town and there is all kinds of opposition with feedback to the councilmen. Why not with people driving with cellphones in their hands. How many accidents have there been or how many injured people have there been? I have been concerned for some time that this ordinance isn’t being enforced. I see a lot of people driving with cell phones at their ear or texting. It doesn’t matter whether I’m driving my vehicle or the school bus. There are some people who can multi-task, but t...
Havre Police Department A 14-year-old was issued a summons on a charge of underage tobacco possession or consumption after officers responded to a 12:17 p.m. Tuesday call from Havre Middle School about a student with spice. —— Officers investigated a noninjury vehicle crash after responding to a 4:40 p.m. call Tuesday from 11th Street West and McKinley Avenue. Hill County Sheriff’s Office After a 7:51 a.m. Tuesday call from Bullhook Road about three horses running down the highway, deputies notified the owners. Havre Fire...
FORT BELKNAP — Frederick Vincent Gone, 84, passed on March 1, 2015, in Billings. Wake services will be held Wednesday, March 4, 2015, at 7 p.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Fort Belknap. Graveside services will be held on Thursday, March 5, 2015, at 11 a.m, at Harlem Cemetery. Arrangements have been made with Edwards Funeral Home. Condolences may be left at www.www.edwardsfuneralhomemt.com....
After a week off from the craziness of postseason basketball, the boys basketball teams of the Northern B are back at it this week, as eight teams will compete in the divisional tournament, with two earning the right to advance to next week's Class B state tournament in Great Falls. The two teams from along the Hi-Line that will be competing in the Northern B divisional this week in Shelby, beginning Thursday are the Rocky Boy Stars and the Harlem Wildcats. Rocky Boy finished...
The Montana State University-Northern men’s basketball team has been fighting for its postseason life for nearly two months now. An 0-4 start to Frontier Conference play meant Northern would play the rest of the regular season with its back against the wall. However, following an overtime win against the Great Falls Argos in their regular season finale last Saturday night in Havre, the Lights (18-12) could finally take a deep breath as they earned their spot in the Frontier p...
In less than 48 hours, the Havre High girls basketball team will take the floor at Hamilton High School in the Class A state tournament. And while playing in the state tourney is nothing new to the Ponies, being the defending Class A state champions is a new experience. But, as the 2015 state tournament begins Thursday afternoon, the Blue Ponies are not thinking about defending their state title, instead, head coach Dustin Kraske and his crew, is trying to win their next one....
