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The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team had a chance to finish off an improbable and special start to 2011-12 season in the final day of the year. And after a shaky first few minutes, the Skylights did just that. Northern improved to a remarkable 13-1 and ended the nonconference portion of the schedule by thumping Alberta's Mount Royal University 63-47 Saturday afternoon at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. The Skylights looked rusty after not playing since...
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team had a chance to finish off an improbable and special start to 2011-12 season in the final day of the year. And after a shaky first few minutes, the Skylights did just that. Northern improved to a remarkable 13-1 and ended the nonconference portion of the schedule by thumping Alberta's Mount Royal University 63-47 Saturday afternoon at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. The Skylights looked rusty after not playing since...
MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. — An armed Iraq War veteran suspected of killing a Mount Rainier National Park ranger managed to evade snowshoe-wearing SWAT teams and dogs on his trail for nearly a day. He couldn't, however, escape chest-deep snow. A plane searching the remote wilderness for Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, on Monday discovered his body lying face down on the mountain hours from where authorities could get to him. Barnes is believed to have fled to the remote park on Sunday to hide after an earlier shooting a...
BILLINGS — The replacement of 1,200 wood stoves in Libby with newer, more efficient models has improved air quality, leading to associated health improvements for children in the northwest Montana town, according to a new study. Airborne particulate pollution in Libby dropped 30 percent over the course of the four-year study. The decline was associated with fewer reports of childhood wheeze, a condition commonly linked to asthma. Other health conditions showed less or no improvement. But study author and University of M...
The Holiday Break is over. High schools are back to business today and college students will be returning soon. And now that Christmas is in the rearview mirror and 2012 has begun, winter sports will certainly be front and center over the next two months. The Havre High boys and girls basketball teams get back into action this weekend with games against Lewistown and Shelby. The Pony girls will be at home Friday night to host the Eagles, while the Pony boys host Class B...
Montana State University-Northern's Jordan Bruursema is having a big junior season for the Skylights. And she's one of the many quality post players this year in the Frontier Conference. Bruursema and the Skylights open Frontier play this Friday night at home against UGF. For a look at the top guards in the Frontier, see Wednesday's Havre Daily News. And as the 2012 Frontier Conference season gets underway this week, there's no question, the Frontier is once again a...
At the NAIA level, it's tough to find a top-notch post player. Let's face it, 6-10, 250-pound monsters aren't a dime a dozen at t MSU-Northern senior Joe Simpson is one of the top forwards in the Frontier Conference, despite being just 6-4. Simpson is a tenacious defender and rebounder for the Lights. For a look at the top guards in the league, see Wednesday's Havre Daily News. his level of basketball. Never-the-less, the Frontier Conference has plenty of good forwards and cen...
MSU-Northern's Sean Kelly (right) grabs a rebound during Friday night's men's college basketball game between the Lights and the University of Alberta. Northern won 78-50. Twenty three days is a long time not to play a basketball game. And for a brief moment, the Montana State University-Northern men looked like they hadn't played in that long. But, MSU-N's typical hard-nosed defense and a 3-point barrage got Northern to its 13th and possibly 14th win of the season as the...
Team Scores 1. Great Falls High 295.5; 2. Havre 231; 3. CMR 163; 4. Lewistown 139.5; 5. Cut Bank 106; 6. Glasgow 89; 7. Browning 78; 7. Libby 78; 9. Butte Central 62; 10. Fort Benton 45; 11. Chester/J-I 29; 12. Chinook 27; 13. Big Sandy 10; 14. Malta 0 Championships 98 – Clay Stillwagon, BC pinned Keegan Kennelly, HHS 1:19 105 – Grayson Brenna, HHS maj. dec. Logan Pleninger, HHS 11-2 112 – Jarren Komac, GFH maj. dec. Kooper Marquart, CMR 13-2 119 – Dylan Stewart, HHS dec. Kylan Berkram, CB 5-4 125 – Casey Dobson, GFH pinne...
BOZEMAN — Montana State defensive end Caleb Schreibeis forced the last of three lost Stony Brook fumbles with 45 seconds to play to preserve at 16-10 second-round FCS playoff victory on Saturday night. The No. 3-seeded Bobcats (11-1) got a 69-yard touchdown pass from DeNarius McGhee to Tanner Bleskin in the first quarter and never trailed. Montana State hosts Sam Houston State in a quarterfinal on Friday night. "Our recipe for winning worked very good," Bobcats coach Rob Ash said. "We got ahead and stayed ahead, which maybe f...
Every season, the annual Havre High Invitational wrestling tournament brings in top-tier talent from all over the state. And while it is typically the larger Class AA and Class A schools that come out on top team-wise, a handful of local Hi-Line grapplers also turned in solid performances. Friday and Saturday, the Havre High gymnasium was home to four mats, and hundreds of matches. Big Sandy's Dusty Gasvoda, left, holds down a Glasgow wrestler during Friday's Havre Invite at the HHS gymnasium. Great Falls High, Havre, and...
Montana State University-Northern's Roshawn West, left, goes in for a layup during Saturday night's NAIA basketball game between the Lights and New Hope Christian at the Armory Gymnasium. If anyone had a reason to fear an emotional letdown, it was the Montana State University-Northern Lights. After all, Northern was turning around to play a non-conference game with New Hope Christian just 24 hours after thumping rival Carroll College at home. But instead of faltering, the Ligh...
The Battle of the Rockies Tournament in Great Falls is always one of the biggest events on the Montana State University-Northern schedule each season. It's close to home and the Lights always strive to do well there. And Northern certainly accomplished that mission this past weekend as the No. 7 Lights won all three of their duals on Friday and placed 11 grapplers overall in the open tournament Saturday at the CMR Fieldhouse. "I feel like we wrestled really well and continued...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team couldn't have had a better script to the start of Frontier Conference play, even if Steven Spielberg had wrote it. The No. 23 Lights opened league play by shooting better than 60 percent from the field and bombing in 12 3-pointers as they overwhelmed arch rival Carroll College, 85-66 Friday night at a loud and boisterous Armory Gymnasium MSU-Northern's Roshawn West defends Carroll's Chris McGrath during F MSU-N's...
Havre High's Tyler Adams, right, goes for a takedown against a Libby opponent during a 215-pound match at Saturday's Havre Invitational wrestling tournament in the HHS gymnasium. Adams was one of four Blue Ponies to win a championship Saturday, as the HHS team finished second to Great Falls High. Blue Ponies Gilbert Bara, top, and Gunnar Aageson battle on the mat during this weekend's Havre Invitational at the HHS gym. Havre heavyweight Dustin Odegard, top, works the head of a Glasgow opponent during Saturday's Havre Invite....
CASPER, Wyo. — Gravely wounded by an arrow fired into his head, a Wyoming college instructor still managed to wrestle with his 25-year-old son who carried out the attack and give his students time to flee the classroom, say police who hailed the actions as heroic. More grisly details of the horrific murder-suicide in Wyoming came to light Saturday, a day after the younger man killed his father's live-in girlfriend and then barged into his father's computer science class and shot him in the head with a high-powered bow and a...
HELENA — The dispute between a ranch for troubled children adopted abroad and the Montana officials who want it either regulated or closed may come down to how a judge defines what a church is. On one side, Ranch For Kids owner Joyce Sterkel says her boarding school in Eureka near the Canadian border should be free from state oversight because of an exemption in the law for ministries of local churches. She and the head of the Epicenter International Missions Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding in October 2011 m...
The Montana State University-Northern football team needs a win. The Lights want a win and not just for this season, but for the future of the program. And there's no better place and time to do that than Saturday when the Lights play their final home game of the season. Northern will host the Dickinson State Blue Hawks Saturday at 12 p.m. inside Blue Pony Stadium on what should be a very emotional se Montana State University-Northern senior Kyle Johnston and the Lights will...
Elizabeth Blevins Elizabeth (Beth) Blevins, 90, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, under the excellent care of Canyon Creek Memory Center in Billings, due to natural causes. Beth was born Jan. 29, 1922, to Andrew and Elizabeth (Heck) Schaller. She married Cecil Patrick in 1940. They lived and raised their family on the farm north of Hingham, Mont. Cecil passed away Nov. 12, 1966. Beth moved into Havre in 1969. On Feb. 3, 1973, she married Lee Blevins. Beth enjoyed sewing, traveling, interior decorating, and...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown U.S. House of Representatives candidate Montana Steve Daines, R-Billings, chats with Havre resident Stuart Reynolds Thursday afternoon at Havre Republican headquarters. Steve Daines is traveling 1,100 miles in the last days of his campaign for Congress. In the past few days, he visited Sidney, Plainville, Scobey, Glasgow, Malta and Chinook before stopping at the Hill County Republican headquarters on 1st Street to rally Republican troops for the final push this weekend and on Tuesday. In...
Money again is rolling in for local campaigns, with the money five of six legislative candidates had in the bank in the latest reports totalling nearly $60,000. The staff members of the office of the state Commissioner of Political Practices still were loading the latest campaign finance reports, due Oct. 25, onto the commissioner's website today, with the reports of Rep. Wendy Warburton, R-Havre, Rep. Kris Hansen, R-Havre, Don Richman, Greg Jergeson and Brenda Skornogoski online by this morning. The report of Democrat Karen...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Democratic Secretary of State Linda McCulloch speaks Thursday morning on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. The full line of statewide Democratic candidates began the final day of a week-long tour of every Montana Indian reservation, plus the Havre bowling alley, with a visit to the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation's Business Committee Chambers. Starting at 8 a. m., the candidates took turns telling the committee and the rest of the room how important it is to vote and how detrimental Republican...
Screen capture/Frontline: "Big Sky, Big Money" A list of signatures appearing to be those of Montana Rep. Wendy Warburton, R-Havre, appear on a sheet of paper, apparently obtained in a set of documents connected to Western Tradition Partnerships, now American Tradition Partnerships, which Frontline has reported may have been involved in illegal campaigning in Montana elections. The signatures of a local state representative may have been in a group of documents that may link an organization to illegal campaigning in Montana,...
The Havre Police Department arrested a fugitive Thursday afternoon, following a call from the train station and a downtown manhunt. Around 3 p.m. Thursday, BNSF Police Officer Tom Anderson called the Havre police to request assistance. Anderson reported a 21-year-old Havre man, Anthony Ekstrom, who was wanted on a felony warrant and misdemeanor theft warrant in Washington state, was trying to flee Havre on Amtrak. Anderson tried to arrest Ekstrom but, after a fight that left Anderson with "numerous scrapes and bruises"...
GREAT FALLS (AP) — A Great Falls judge has set bail at $2 million for a Virginia man who authorities say threw pipe bombs at officers while leading them on a 40-mile chase in a stolen car. Laurence Stewart II appeared Friday before District Judge Dirk Sandefur. AP Photo/Cascade County Sheriff Dept. This photo released by the Cascade County Sheriff Dept. taken Thursday, showing Laurence Stewart II, Stewart is wanted on charges of detonating pipe bombs in Virginia and was arrested in Montana after leading police on a chase i...
