Judge falls off roof, judicial system doesn't miss a beat

Havre City Judge Virginia Seigel presided in court Thursday with a cast on her right foot and another wrapped around her right arm, a result of her falling off her roof early this month.

Seigel had wrist surgery after her fall, an operation which included having stainless steel inserted where her wrist was shattered. But despite her accident and her surgery, the city court judicial system didn't miss a beat, she said.

She remembers exactly when she fell off her roof.

"July 1st at 3:30 p.m. The day will live in infamy in my memory till the day I die," she said, raising her right fist, the...