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Articles from the March 27, 2014 edition


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  • Malmstrom leadership fired en masse

    ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer|Updated Mar 27, 2014

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force took the extraordinary step Thursday of firing nine midlevel nuclear commanders and announcing it will discipline dozens of junior officers at a nuclear missile base, responding firmly to an exam-cheating scandal that spanned a far longer period than originally reported. A 10th commander, the senior officer at the base, resigned and will retire from the Air Force. Air Force officials called the discipline unprecedented in the history of America's intercontinental ballistic missile force. The As...

  • Havre cancer center to re-open this spring

    Tim Leeds|Updated Mar 27, 2014

    Hospitals in Havre and Great Falls have worked out an agreement to work in partnership to re-open a cancer center in Havre. Northern Montana Hospital of Havre and Benefis Health System in Great Falls announced in a press release today that they will jointly reopen and operate the Hi-Line Sletten Cancer Center. The center was open in Havre from 2008 to 2012. Before and after it was open, people from the Hi-Line had to travel, typically to Great Falls or Billings, to receive treatments of cancer. The center closed after the...

  • Police: Carlson strangled girlfriend

    John Paul Schmidt|Updated Mar 27, 2014

    Jordan Carlson admitted killing his girlfriend by strangling her, according to a narrative of his arrest given to the city judge. A police report given to the judge elaborated on the call investigation that led up to Jordan Carlson's arrest. Officers received a call from Dustan Carlson requesting officers and emergency medical personnel to Jordan's home at 620 1st Ave., Apt. 3. Dustan said he received a call from Jordan saying he had killed his girlfriend. Jordan Carlson was...

  • Newlywed gets 30 years in husband murder case

    Updated Mar 27, 2014

    MISSOULA (AP) — A Montana woman was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison for killing her husband of eight days by pushing him from a cliff in Glacier National Park after they argued over her second thoughts about the marriage. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy said he saw no remorse from Jordan Graham, 22, in the killing of Cody Johnson, 25. He also ordered her to pay $17,000 in restitution. Graham cried on the stand Thursday and apologized to her family and Johnson's. But Molloy indicated he had continuing doubts a...

  • Marjorie M. Chandler

    Updated Mar 27, 2014

    HAYS — Marjorie M. (Keiser) Chandler, 84, of Hays, Mont., passed away at Havre Care Center in Havre on March 26, 2014. Wake services will begin at the St. Paul’s Mission Recreation Center at 5 p.m. with rosary at p.m. on Friday, March 28, 2014. Funeral services will be at the St. Paul’s Mission Saturday, March 29, at 11 a.m., and burial will be in St. Paul’s Mission Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements, and you can leave your memories and condolences for the family at www.hol...

  • Havre woman gets probation in case that sent husband to prison

    Tim Leeds|Updated Mar 27, 2014

    A Havre woman was sentenced to three years probation and given a chance to clear her name in a drug case that sent her husband to prison for 12 years. Rebecca Lightfoot, born in 1974, was charged last September after police officers found found nine-and-a-half ounces of marijuana, less than a gram of hashish, drug paraphernalia, and a 2005 Dodge truck and more than $7,000 in cash subject to forfeiture related to a search of the apartment she shared with David Lee McKinney, who was born in 1976. McKinney also was charged...

  • For the Record, March 27, 2014

    Updated Mar 27, 2014

    Havre Police Department Officers investigated a 12:11 p.m. Wednesday call from Main Street about a counterfeit $20. ——— Gilbert Francis Werk, 34, of Hays, was arrested on a charge of shoplifting after officers responded to a 12:53 p.m. Wednesday call from a 1st Street business about a noncombative shoplifter. ——— A summons was issued after officers investigated a 4:33 p.m. Wednesday call from 2nd Street about a dog attacking a man with two kids, ——— Officers investigated a 12:54 a.m. Thursday call from a 1st Street West e...

  • MGGA talks Farm Bill to packed Havre crowd

    Tim Leeds|Updated Mar 27, 2014

    Talking to a near overflow crowd at the Northern Agricultural Research Center south of Havre Wednesday, representatives of the Montana Grain Growers Association said the new Farm Bill has some good points and some drawbacks for Montana farmers and ranchers. A main point they hammered home is producers need to research what options will be best for their operations and everything planned and ready when signups start — some perhaps delayed until next year. But not all that will happen is known. “We’ve put a disclaimer in here,...

  • Oregon man sentenced for drugs on Amtrak

    Tim Leeds|Updated Mar 27, 2014
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    A Salem, Ore., man was put in the supervision of the state Department of Corrections for five years in a suspended sentence for having drugs and drug paraphernalia while riding Amtrak through Havre. Uriel Osornio Jr., born in 1992, was arrested in December after a Tri-Agency Safe Trails Task Force agent received a tip he would be carrying drugs while riding the train east along the Hi-Line. A U.S. Border Patrol intelligence agent told the task force agent Osornio had ridden the train from Williston, N.D., to Portland, Ore.,...

  • Expect grain shipment delays, growers warned

    Tim Leeds|Updated Mar 27, 2014

    The past president of the Montana Grain Growers Association told a packed room Wednesday that farmers need to plan ahead in selling their grain - if they wait until they need cash, rail delays may cause disappointment. "Don't expect to wait until a month before you have to have income before you do," said MGGA Past President Ryan McCormick of Kremlin. "Make sure you are ahead of the game." McCormick, talking at the MGGA Farm Bill meeting at the Northern Agricultural Research C...

  • Blue Pony netters should be strong in 2014

    Daniel Horton|Updated Mar 27, 2014

    It seems like every year, spring comes later and later. But that has never stopped the Havre High boys and girls tennis teams from continuing to be one of the most consistent and successful tennis program’s in Class A. And though winter weather seems to be wreaking havoc yet again, the Blue Pony tennis teams are still hard at work preparing for a brand new season. Blue Pony head coach George Ferguson enters his 11th season at the helm. He’s led the Ponies to five state cha...

  • Lights using spring to get better

    George Ferguson|Updated Mar 27, 2014

    Fall seems like a long time ago, and winter seems like it’s never-ending. And, next fall, which marks the start of the 2014 NAIA football season is a long ways off yet. Nevertheless, the Montana State University-Northern football team is putting the pads and helmets back on as spring football at MSU-N gets underway. Northern had to delay the start of spring drills due to continuous bad weather, but the Lights have made it through two practices this week, and head coach Mark S...

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