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Authorities investigating the reported death of a Montana school teacher asked landowners in parts of Montana and North Dakota to check vacant farmsteads for signs of disturbed soil or matted grass, saying her body might be buried at such a site. As new details about 43-year-old Sherry Arnold's mysterious disappearance emerged, law officers released the names of two men being held in the case and planned to hold a news conference at midday Monday. Lester Vann Waters Jr., 47, and Michael Keith Spell, 22, both of Parachute,...
Authorities investigating the reported death of a Montana school teacher asked landowners in parts of Montana and North Dakota to check vacant farmsteads for signs of disturbed soil or matted grass, saying her body might be buried at such a site. As new details about 43-year-old Sherry Arnold's mysterious disappearance emerged, law officers released the names of two men being held in the case and planned to hold a news conference at midday Monday. Lester Vann Waters Jr., 47, and Michael Keith Spell, 22, both of Parachute,...
More rain began falling Sunday on soaked Montana communities after more than a week of floods in the region, along with a heavy mountain snowpack and burgeoning dams, prompted states downstream to also prepare for flooding. AP Photo/The Bismarck Tribune, Tom Stromme A statue garden is slowly submerged by rising ground water outside a home in the Fox Island area in southwest Bismarck, N.D. on Saturday. A break in rainy weather at the start of the long holiday weekend allowed Montana residents to clear flood debris from homes... Full story
Kathleen Helen Schweitzer, the mother of Gov. Brian Schweitzer and the daughter of Box Elder homesteaders, died Sunday. She was 83. She died following a fall on Friday morning when she became tangled in her miniature schnauzer's leash on a visit to the veterinarian in Helena and banged her head, the Montana governor said. She was initially taken to a hospital in Helena and seemed OK, the governor said, but was later transferred to Benefis Medical System in Great Falls after doctors realized she had suffered a broken blood...
BOISE, Idaho — Environmentalists have asked a federal appeals court for an emergency injunction to halt wolf hunts scheduled to start in a few weeks in Idaho and Montana. The request filed by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and other groups with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was made public Saturday. The groups want the hunts canceled until the court issues a decision in an appeal filed Monday challenging a federal judge's ruling allowing the hunts to go forward. "We think if we don't get an injunction, the wolf p...
AP Photo/Matthew Brown Crews from the Montana Department of Transportation use heavy equipment to pass through floodwaters in Roundup, Mont., Wednesday. The Musselshell River swamped portions of the small agricultural town for the second time in two weeks Wednesday as heavy rains continued to cause widespread flooding in Montana. Work crews in central Montana on Sunday began repairing two washouts of a backcountry road as part of a plan to get to another washout on a larger road that has for a week cut off more than 300 peopl...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge has denied a proposed settlement agreement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and 10 conservation groups that would have lifted endangered species protections for wolves in Montana and Idaho. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in Missoula on Saturday rejected the agreement that could have led to public hunting of some 1,300 wolves in the two states. In the 24-page decision, Molloy cited the court's lack of authority to put part of an endangered species population under state m...
President Barack Obama on Saturday declared Hill County and the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation in north-central Montana a disaster area after severe storms and flooding swept through the area in June. The declaration means federal money will be available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit groups for emergency work and repair. "We are thankful the president recognized the severity of this situation and acted quickly," said Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, a Democrat, in a statement. "Now the... Full story
