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Montana State's Denarius McGhee (left) avoids an NDSU defender during an FCS playoff game last fall in Bozeman. McGhee is considered one of the top quarterbacks in the FCS this season and the Bobcats are favorite in the Big Sky Conference. The Bobcats went 9-3 overall in 2010, captured a share of the Big Sky championship for the first time since 2005 and earned a bye and a home game in the FCS playoffs. That game ended in disappointment as NDSU stormed past the Cats in the...
Millions gather worldwide to ring in 2011 BETH FOUHY, Associated Press NEW YORK — Revelers smooched and cheered the famous ball drop in New York's Times Square as the largest New Year's Eve celebration in the U.S. ushered in 2011. Most tried to set aside concerns about the worldwide economic downturn as partiers from New Zealand to Asia to Europe toasted to hopes of a more prosperous year to come. In New York, a sea of people stretching for blocks braved tight security and cool temperatures Friday night to take part in the s...
William Wilkinson Sr., 84, died July 23, 2011. His funeral service was July 26, 2011, in White Shield, N.D. William was born in Elbowoods, N.D., on Aug. 7, 1926. He graduated from Elbowoods High School where he led his high school team to the state basketball championship in 1945. He also attended Minot State on a basketball scholarship. William married Miriam (Smith) Wilkinson on Sept. 27, 1952. They had four daughters, Roberta Bell of Harlem, Debbie Wilkinson, Vanessa Spraker and Claudene (Ben) Calvert, all of Havre, and...
A flurry of statements came from Montana's U. S. lawmakers over the weekend preceding what appears to be Washington closing in on a solution to raising the nation's debt ceiling, with two remaining at odds on how that battle should be resolved, while Montana's senior member of Congress is calling on all lawmakers to work together to find a solution. "There are a lot of good ideas out there, on both sides of the aisle. Now, when the stakes are so high, it's all the more important that that we listen to each other, find a...
A nonprofit conservation group is seeking experienced leaders and technicians — people who gained their experience serving their country — to help with projects in the state and out. Montana Conservation Corps is asking military veterans interested in careers in land management to team with the corps in the Veterans Green Corps Wildlands Fuel Management Program. "MCC's Wildlands Fuel Management Program offers a unique opportunity for recently returned vets to leverage their leadership experience with technical skills to pursu...
More than a month into Joe Callahan's tenure as the Interim Chancellor at Montana State University-Northern, the committee to find his replacement is getting into gear for the fall search. The 20-member search committee met Wednesday afternoon, their first in-person meeting since a day full of talks back in May with several groups with stake in Northern, including student groups, faculty, the University Advisory Committee and community members. Last week's meeting was primarily to prepare the final components to get the...
Correction: Jeri Zorn's name was incorrectly listed in the original version of this story. Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Justin Hofland adjusts the helmit of his 8-year-old daughter, Sierra Hofland, before she rides in the Kellen Lund 2nd Annual Memorial Bike Ride Saturday morning at Pepin Park. Two years after Kellen Lund died after a bicycle accident at the intersection of 1st Street and 7th Avenue, the community's love for the boy and the desire to prevent such a tragedy from occurring again are still growing. On...
Carol Joan Burchard, 71, passed away July 29, 2011, due to natural causes. A private memorial vigil service will be today, Monday, Aug. 1, 2011, at 3 p. m. at St. Jude Thaddeus Church. Arrangements are made by Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook....
NEW YORK — Prosecutors have serious questions about the credibility of a hotel housekeeper who has accused former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, and he is expected to have his strict bail conditions reduced today, according to people familiar with the case. Investigators have come to believe that the woman lied about some of her activities in the hours around the alleged attack and about her own background, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday. The o...
It's a big weekend for the Havre North Stars American Legion baseball club, just as last weekend was. Only this time, the North Stars play four important Northern A games at home. On Saturday, Havre will host the Tri-County Cardinals in a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m. at Legion Field. Then, the North Stars will play host to the Vauxhall Spurs on Sunday, also at 1 p.m. at Legion Field. And as the final month of the season begins, the time is now for Havre to start piling up...
Havre's Jerod Boles recently competed in the National Elks Hoop Shoot in Springfield, Mass. Boles won the local Havre Elks Hoop Shoot on six different occasions. Going forward, Havre's Jerod Boles is no longer able to compete in the Elks Hoop shoot competitions. But after six years of hard work and dedication, Boles achieved his goals and went out on top. Back on April 28-30, Boles was in Springfield, Mass., for the National Elks Hoop Shoot. This was Boles' first national appearance, but Boles won all six Havre shoots he...
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has agreed to free former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn without bail or home confinement in the sexual assault case against him. AP Photo/Mary Altaffer Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrives at New York Supreme Court with his wife Anne Sinclair, Friday. Prosecutors have serious questions about the credibility of a hotel housekeeper who has accused Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, and he is expected to have his strict bail conditions reduced F...
To help prevent impaired driving and encourage motorists to buckle up, the Havre Police Department in partnership with Montana Department of Transportation will provide extra traffic patrols over the Fourth of July. "Driving impaired is not worth it," Interim Chief of Police Gabe Matosich said in a press release. "Whether you've been floating, boating, picnicking or camping, make sure that the person driving home is sober and alert. I want everyone traveling to drive safely and defensively — and that includes making sure e...
Another small business workshop has been set by U. S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., with the focus of this session on women entrepreneurs. "As we strengthen Montana's small businesses by empowering them with tools needed to create more jobs, we also need to expand opportunities for the thousands of Montana women looking to start or jumpstart their own companies, " Tester said in a release announcing the workshop. "Women business owners face some unique challenges and opportunities. And this workshop will provide resources and...
A decade ago, Havre brothers Vince and Woody Woodwick thought it would be a good idea to have a community Fourth of July celebration. The pair convinced a couple of bands to perform in Pepin Park. They got a few coolers and barbecue grills. And a couple of hundred people showed up to celebrate Independence Day. Vince Woodwick recalls trying to convince businesses to show support. "They kept asking me who was sponsoring the event," he recalled. "Me, my brother and maybe you, if you give me some money," he said was his...
Voters in cities across the Hi-Line have some easy decisions to make in city elections this November. In fact, the most difficult decisions will be for the voters in Hingham and Big Sandy, where there are two positions open, but only one person filed. Those voters will have to write in votes for a second council member who will then be allowed to accept or refuse the position. In Hingham, only David George filed for the non-partisan council positions. In Big Sandy, Shane Cline was the only person to file for the race by Thurs...
Rick Dow, left, and Bob Kaul, right. September's primaries will be fairly quiet for any fans of local politics. And the actual election won't be much more active. Filings for this November's Havre City Council elections ended Thursday evening with only one contested race, in Ward 3. That race will be between Republican Rick Dow, who filed early on Thursday morning, and incumbent Democrat Bob Kaul, who filed 15 minutes before the deadline. Dow, who has been an occasional columnist for the Havre Daily News for the past two...
HELENA — Some of the changes in Montana's medical marijuana law that took effect Friday have created confusion among users and distributors after a judge blocked other parts of the restrictive overhaul. Helena District Judge James Reynolds on Thursday temporarily blocked portions of the law that eliminated Montana's "caregiver" system for distributing marijuana. The law renames caregivers as providers and bans them from making a profit or distributing marijuana to more than three patients. But while the judge blocked the b...
Havre Daily News/Tim Leeds Brian Allen, left, and his attorney, Daniel Minnis, listen Tuesday during a plea hearing in District Court in Havre. A Havre man entered a special plea Tuesday to accusations he had beaten a man with a pistol and the pistol had gone off, breaking the back window of a car parked in a residential neighborhood. The case had been sent back to District Court in Havre by the Montana Supreme Court. Brian H. Allen, born in 1972, entered Alford pleas to three charges under a plea agreement. "It was a bad...
HELENA — Bob Kelleher — an attorney, perennial political candidate and delegate to the 1972 Montana Constitutional Convention — has died at age 88. David Kelleher, of Kalispell, tells Lee Newspapers of Montana that his father died Sunday in Billings. Kelleher, who many will remember for his bushy eyebrows, ran for office 16 times between 1964 and 2008, mostly as a Democrat. He won the six-way Republican primary nomination for U.S. Senate in 2008 but lost to Sen. Max Baucus in the general election. He also ran on the Green...
WASHINGTON — Under pressure from Congress, the Obama administration is backing away from a plan to make millions of acres of undeveloped land in the West eligible for federal wilderness protection. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a memo Wednesday that his agency will not designate any of those public lands as "wild lands." Instead Salazar said officials will work with members of Congress to develop recommendations for managing millions of acres of undeveloped land in the West. A copy of the memo was obtained by The A...
HELENA — A former organizer for the Ku Klux Klan said Wednesday he is running as a Republican for Montana's U.S. House seat because he believes people will back him as part of a backlash to the nation's first black president. But John Abarr, a 41-year-old night auditor at a Great Falls hotel who lost a local Republican legislative primary in 2002, could have a hard time getting any backing from Montana Republicans. His platform promises to legalize marijuana, increase mental health programs, keep abortion legal, abolish t...
HELENA — The mother of a teenager who shot himself last year during a rash of child suicides on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northeastern Montana has filed a lawsuit claiming the school district and the state are responsible for his death. Dalton Gourneau's death in Wolf Point in November followed five suicides and 20 attempts at a middle school in Poplar, about 20 miles east on the reservation, leading tribal officials to declare an emergency. Federal health officials were sent in for several months last year to p...
Montana's Rep. Denny Rehberg is working to promote the use of alternative fuels with his sponsorship of the American Alternative Fuels Act. "No one knows for sure where we'll be getting our energy a century from now, " Rehberg said in a press release Tuesday. "While some politicians want the federal government picking winners and losers, a better approach is to let consumers pick from as many options as we can reasonably provide. That's a big part of the all-of-the-above energy plan I've been working on. " Rehberg signed on...
The passenger train that runs through Montana has been stopped due to flooding, with the national passenger rail service awaiting updates today about when service may resume. Marc Magliari, Amtrak spokesman, said this morning the Empire Builder's run through most of Minnesota and all of Montana, North Dakota and Idaho has been shut down for the moment. "The Empire Builder was unable to operate in North Dakota yesterday and today, " Magliari said. "We'll know more about the situation for tomorrow later today. " Flooding at...
