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Havre Daily News Staff Local veterans organizations have planned services to honor the fallen on Memorial Day, and are looking for some help in honoring them the day before. Les Johnson, commander of American Legion Post 11, said the Veterans Honor Guard will be placing flags Sunday at the graves of military veterans in Highland Cemetery, and would welcome help. The guard will start placing flags at 9 a.m. Monday, the Memorial Day commemoration will start at the Hill County Courthouse at 11 a.m. The service includes Boy...
As the jury trial of the Havre man accused of attempted deliberate homicide continued Wednesday, jurors watched a video in which the alleged attacker says he drunkenly blacked out and has no recollection of stabbing his friend. “I can’t believe I stabbed someone, man,” Nevada St. Marks said in the interview video. “Everything is just a blur. I got glimpses, spots throughout the whole night when I’m coming to and then I’m gone.” The trial for St. Marks, 22, started Tuesday. As an alternative to the attempted deliberate ho...
Two mill levies that were on the ballot in Hill County were approved by voters in Thursday's special election, As of 11:30 Thursday night, results from the Montana Secretary of State's website show both mill levies passed by wide margins. The Hill County Public Cemetery District's request to levy up to 4 mills more a year passed 56 percentg to 44 percent. A second request to allow The Hill County Weed Control District to also levy an additional 4 mills passed 58-42. For more details read Friday's Havre Daily... Full story
The Associated Press has reported that Republican Greg Gianforte has won Montana's special election to the U.S. House of Representatives. Gianforte, a retired Bozeman entrepreneur and his party's 2016 candidate for governor, took 50 percent of the vote with a total of 189,473, the Montana Secretary of State website says. Democrat Rob Quist took 44 percent with 166,483 votes while Libertarian Mark Wicks earned 21,509, or 6 percent of the vote. The election was to fill Montana's lone seat in the U.S House of Representatives,... Full story
Paulette Pipe is a proud mother who says she's "elated" that her three youngest children will walk together in the Box Elder High School graduation ceremony Saturday. Box Elder school administrators said this is the first time they have seen three siblings walk at the same time. "The time us long-timers have been here, we've not seen that happen," Academic Dean Shari Ruff said May 11. Pipe said she wasn't always too sure she would see the day, either. "I didn't know it would...
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, Associated Press BOZEMAN — Thursday’s nationally-watched election for Montana’s sole congressional seat got a last-minute twist when the Republican candidate, Greg Gianforte, was charged with misdemeanor assault for grabbing a reporter by the neck and throwing him to the ground. Gallatin County Sheriff Brian Gootkin made the announcement shortly before midnight Wednesday in a written statement, about six hours after the attack on reporter Ben Jacobs of The Guardian. Gianforte would face a maximum $500...
J.J. Colby has collected 2,300 used plastic pop bottles, and he plans to build a greenhouse with them and earn his Eagle Scout badge in the process. "I am making a greenhouse out of recycled two-liter plastic bottles," Colby said. Colby said it took him a year to collect all the used bottles and he did it by volunteering at the recycle drive in Havre every third Saturday of the month. People had gotten word he was collecting the bottles and some would bring as many as 50 at a...
A program about to start on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation will let teenagers get paid while learning about life in the workforce from different reservation employers. The Chippewa Cree Tribe’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families will hold orientation Wednesday at the Old Stone Child College gymnasium for its TANF Summer Youth Employment Program, set to begin next month. Program coordinator Mike Geboe, said people can get an application from the reservation’s TANF office. Drug screening of applicants, a requirement of th...
Tell me, what is all the foo-foo-rah over being fit and healthy? I have friends who abstained from meat (?Not eat meat?), ran marathons, contorted themselves into pretzels with an hour of daily yoga, no sugar, no dairy, no smokes, no booze. Died young. One in his 40s and one in her 50s, each skinny as a rail. Recently, prior to eye surgery, my doctor insisted I go through a whole-body work-up: blood, lungs, heart, the full-meal-deal of medical tests. The heart man told me my...
Every 23 hours, a person is raped in Montana. Last year, over 800 sexual assaults and 4,000 domestic violence crimes were reported statewide. However, this accounts for only a fraction of the total number of crimes that actually occur, as most go unreported. What these statistics show is clear: We must improve how we address crimes of this nature in Montana. Fortunately, recent changes to state law will go a long way in reducing the frequency of these crimes, as well as provide victims the justice and support they deserve....
PHOENIX, Ariz. - Wayne Frederick Romain was born in Fort Benton, Montana, June 29, 1957, to Meradel Vaughan Romain (1931-2014) and John Dominic Romain (1927-2015). Tuesday, April 25, Wayne went in for a very complicated heart surgery and after a long process passed away May 3, 2017, at 2:31 p.m. Wayne was raised in Havre, Montana. He had a successful farm and bar in Montana before joining the rest of the family in Phoenix. He was in the real estate appraisal business for sever... Full story
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a possible temporary restraining order violation called in Wednesday at 8:24 a.m. from a First Street business. —— Animal Control officer picked up a stray bicycle found on Third Street at 8:31 a.m. Wednesday. —— Officers investigated a 1:48 p.m. Wednesday call from a woman at a First Street business who said a man “tried to grab her and pull her into a van.” —— A caller from an 11th Street W. business reported a gas drive-off Wednesday at 3:05 p.m. —— Someone stopped at the poli...
The Fort Benton girls track team has put together a spectacular season and this weekend, the Longhorns are hoping to cap it off with a Class C state championship. In the past two weeks, Fort Benton has won the District 9C girls championship and the Northern C Divisional, which was last Thursday in Great Falls. This weekend in Laurel, the Longhorns will go for the trifecta at the Class C state track meet. The field events will get underway Friday at 9 a.m., followed by the runn...
When the Havre High track teams started practicing and preparing more than two months ago, they did it with this weekend in mind, the weekend of Class A state track. The Class A state track meet, which will be held in Laurel, along with the Class C state track meet, starts Friday with field events starting at 9 a.m., followed by the start of the running events at 10:30 a.m. "It's nice that we have a lot of girls qualified," HHS head coach John Ita said. "We knew it was going...
