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College football night games don't happen often at Blue Pony Stadium. But one will happen on Friday night. And it's ironic that the first night game the Montana State University-Northern football team played under Mark Samson was against the same opponent that will be in town on Friday night. Back in November of 2004, the Lights beat the Battlin' Bears under the Lights at Blue Pony Stadium, giving Samson his first career home victory as the Lights' head coach. Eight years...
A second road trip down, an even longer one up. That's what the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team is facing this weekend. Tonight at 7, the No. 15 Lights begin three-game stretch in Oregon against tough opponents. The Lights face Portland Bible College tonight, New Hope Christian on Friday night in Eugene and then return to Portland for a rematch with Warner Pacific on Saturday night. MSU-N is coming off a 2-0 appearance at the UM-Western Tournament last...
Lewistown Golden Eagles (No. 1 Seed) Record: 8-0 in Central A Lewistown is the defending Class A state champion and the defending Central A champion. The eagles have yet to lose a match this entire season, despite graduating several key players from last year's championship team. Key players to watch: McCalle Feller, 5-10 middle blocker, Allie Adams, 5-7 setter, Erin Jensen, 5-9 middle hitter. Livingston Rangers (No. 2 Seed) Record: 4-4 in Central A The Rangers went to the...
The most dangerous teams in football find their stride when it matters most, the end of the season. That is the story behind the Southwestern A Hamilton Broncs, who have navigated their way into the second round of the state playoffs after a less than dominating start to their season. The Broncs will be Central A champion Havre's quarterfinal opponent Saturday at Blue Pony Stadium. Hamilton got off to a 0-3 start this season, but has gone 5-2 since then. And in that 5-2 run came a 28-11 win in the first round of the Class A...
Junior Sadie Seidel is quietly one of the top volleyball players for the Havre High volleyball program. Standing at 5-8 and producing for the Blue Ponies as an outside hitter, Seidel has consistently shown up as a leader in the Ponies' box scores all season long. Havre High's Sadie Seidel (left) goes up high for a kill during a volleyball match against Conrad last month in Havre. Seidel, a junior hitter has been one of Havre's leaders on offense this season. But it isn't just Seidel's hitting that has given the Ponies a...
What the Havre volleyball program has or hasn't accomplished this season no longer matters. What is important is the Blue Ponies have consistently progressed through the entire season and enter the divisional tournament truly playing their best volleyball of the season. The Central A Ponies enter the postseason tournament, which will run Friday and Saturday at the HHS gymnaisum with a 4-4 conference record. They fell into a three-way tie with the Livingston Rangers and Belgrade Panthers and eventually landed the No. 3 seed...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Many people who participated in a massive demonstration that put Oakland at the epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street movement are disavowing the violence that took place after most protesters went home. AP Photo/Noah Berger Occupy Oakland protesters pass a burning garbage heap during a confrontation with police on Thursday, in Oakland, Calif. Following a mainly peaceful day-long protest by thousands of anti-Wall Street demonstrators, several hundred rall About 7,000 people participated in a "general s...
PHILIPSBURG (AP) — A 73-year-old Butte man faces a felony aggravated assault charge after another man was punched in the stomach during a heated argument at a water district meeting last week. Granite County Attorney Christopher Miller says Don Lembke has not been arrested and has cooperated with investigators. The Montana Standard reports (http://bit.ly/uVdXQ5 ) the victim was Shakopee Heights water district board member Don Turner, who is also in his 70s. Miller says Turner suffered three broken ribs, a punctured lung a...
I consider myself to be a somewhat mystical person. Some days I am opti-mystic and other times I revert to pessi-mystic. Last Friday I drove to Conrad to visit friends. It was a Friday much like any other Friday. I had not even crossed the county line when a gull flew at me, skirted my windshield and flew on. I thought it looked me in the eye as it flew across the hood. Sondra Ashton I have long had a special relationship to many birds, but especially crows. Once when I had been having a rough day and was driving along in a...
Editor's note: Watch for more information on the Montana Asthma Project in an upcoming Health section in the Oct. 11 edition of the Havre Daily News. With the influenza season getting in full swing, the head of a local program for children who suffer from asthma said being vaccinated is crucial for people with that or other respiratory ailments. Registered Nurse Brandi Baker, who heads the Montana Asthma Project at Bullhook Community Health Center in Havre, said people with asthma — and any breathing problem — need to hav...
NorthWestern Energy kicked off another seasonal program last week to help its customers use less of its service and save money. Toward the end of the week, customers should have received a letter from Northwestern Energy containing a coupon to get $2 off each compact fluorescent light bulb when buying up to 10 of them between Sept. 29 and Nov. 13. Deb Young is a program manager for Efficiency Plus, or E+, the project that is responsible for the coupons and other efforts by NorthWestern Energy to get customers using less...
The Havre Police Department is investigating a number of gunshots that rang out Saturday night. According to Acting Police Chief Gabe Matosich, officers began receiving reports around 11:55 p. m. Saturday night of a "male on a rooftop on the 100 block of 9th Avenue, " firing a weapon into the air. "It looks like he may have been upset about something, " Matosich said. Two officers were sent out to investigate the call initially, with assistance from the Hill County Sheriff's Office and the U. S. Border Patrol. Matosich said...
Havreites should be ready to expect the unexpected Tuesday morning when the emergency sirens are tested at 9 a. m. Hill County Disaster and Emergency Services Coordinator Joe Parenteau said the sirens should both go off and run for three minutes during the test. "If it were an actual emergency people should tune to the local media to find out what they should do and what is happening, " he said. The test this time will start with the county dispatching service, which will set of the two sirens, one located at the water tank...
High temperatures Sunday were unseasonably warm, especially in the southeast of the state. After forecasting a hotter- and dryer-than-normal Montana in October, and the region seeing unseasonably high temperatures in the last week, the National Weather Service now is predicting a wave of cooler and wetter weather to move into the state this week. There was even a chance of snow at elevations near and above a mile. Great Falls National Weather Service issued an advisory Sunday that temperatures should drop to near normal or...
Editor: Did you know that the Havre Daily News will not print any letter that says anything negative about a business in town? News to me ... . You can write one of praise, for example: Chamber, benefit and donation letters. You can write a letter slamming a politician and his voting record and not use facts to back up your letter (or twist the facts for your own benefit) and ask the "why" of how he voted, but don't touch our businesses in a negative way. My letter was backed by facts, I apologized to the employees of said...
FORT BENTON (AP) — Officials are investigating the hanging death of a 33-year-old man at the Chouteau County jail in Fort Benton. Sheriff Vern Burdick said Monday that jail staff found Jesse Bennett of Fort Benton dead in his cell on Friday afternoon. It appears he used a blanket to hang himself. Burdick says Bennett was the only inmate in the jail. He had been arrested at 3 a.m. Thursday on an assault charge. His body was taken to Billings for an autopsy. The case is being investigated by Fergus County Coroner Dick Brown, w...
PERUGIA, Italy (AP) — Italian appeals court throws out Amanda Knox's murder conviction, orders her free....
PERUGIA, Italy (AP) — An Italian appeals court threw out Amanda Knox's murder conviction Monday and ordered the young American freed after nearly four years in prison for the death of her British roommate. Knox collapsed in tears after the verdict overturning her 2009 conviction was read out. Her co-defendant, Italian Raffaele Sollecito, also was cleared of killing 21-year-old Meredith Kercher in 2007. The Kercher family looked on grimly and a bit dazed as the verdict was read out by the judge after 11 hours of d...
NEW ORLEANS — Heavy rains from Tropical Storm Lee were falling in southern Louisiana and pelting the Gulf Coast on Saturday as the storm's center trudged slowly toward land, where businesses were already beginning to suffer on what would normally be a bustling holiday weekend. The storm was expected to drop 10 to 15 inches of rain across southern Louisiana. No injuries or deaths had been reported as of early Saturday afternoon, though power was knocked out to at least 35,000 people and officials were still cautiously w...
BILLINGS — Gray wolf hunts are under way in Montana and Idaho as state officials seek to sharply reduce the predator's numbers in hopes of curbing attacks on livestock and big game herds. Montana's hunt kicked off at sunrise Saturday with a six-week, archery-only wolf season. A general wolf hunting season opens Oct. 22 and runs through the end of the year. Montana wildlife officials have set a statewide harvest quota of 220 wolves, which would reduce the state's population to a projected 425 animals. Idaho's hunt began T...
BOZEMAN — A Montana State University investigation has found an assistant music professor at the school had a relationship with a female student and violated policies against sexual harassment and gender discrimination, a newspaper is reporting. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports 47-year-old MSU Orchestra conductor Shuichi Komiyama denies the allegations. The newspaper received a copy of an 18-page report from the university's investigation into claims against Komiyama from the student's attorney earlier this week. MSU l...
The Havre High football team dropped its first game of the season, losing to the Butte Central Maroons 24-20 Saturday afternoon in Butte. The Ponies led 13-10 in the second half, but the Maroons rallied in the fourth quarter. The Ponies are now 1-1 and will play Miles City Friday at 6 p.m. at Blue Pony Stadium in Havre. For full coverage, see Tuesday's Havre Daily News....
Montana State University-Northern wide receiver Brandon O'Brien goes past a UM-Western defender during Saturday's 24-17 Lights' win at Blue Pony Stadium. The offense got rolling early, but it was two late defensive plays which helped the Montana State University-Northern Lights to a season-opening 24-17 win over the UM-Western Bulldogs Saturday at Blue Pony Stadium. Leading by seven points with under two minutes to play, the Lights got a game-saving interception from junior...
Two Washington attorneys representing the Little Shell Chippewa Tribe in its effort to win federal recognition have resigned, and one faction in the tribal dispute says it is because of frustration with John Sinclair. Sinclair, of Havre, claims to be the legitimate president of the tribe, as does John Gilbert of Great Falls. The two factions have been involved in a years-long verbal fight. Co-counsel Heather Sibbison was quoted in a Saturday press release from the Gilbert faction as saying "my very great hope that you will...
JEAN LAFITTE, La. — Bands of heavy rain and strong wind gusts from Tropical Storm Lee knocked out power to thousands in Louisiana and Mississippi on Saturday and prompted evacuations in bayou towns like Jean Lafitte, where water was lapping at the front doors of some homes. The sluggish storm stalled just offshore for several hours before resuming its slow march northward late in the afternoon. Landfall was expected later in the day, and the storm threatened to dump more than a foot of rain across the Gulf Coast and into t...
