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Jean Butler Jean Butler, 71, of Box Elder, passed away on Saturday, June 2, 2012, at Benefis Hospital in Great Falls, of natural causes. Jean was born in Browning, Mont., to John and Phyllis (Salois) McGillis. She was raised in the East Glacier/Summit area until she met and married Gary Walters. The couple moved to Minnesota, and their union was blessed with three children. They later divorced, and Jean moved back to Montana. On Sept. 13, 1968, she married Charles Butler, and their union was also blessed with three children....
Ellen Marie Nugent, 53, formerly of Havre, passed away unexpectedly on May 28, 2012, in Shanghai, China, from a heart attack. Cremation has taken place, and a memorial service will be held at a later date. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements.... Full story
HELENA — Attorney General Steve Bullock easily won Montana's Democratic nomination for governor Tuesday night and looked ahead to a general election battle with former U.S. Rep. Rick Hill, who topped a crowded Republican field. Hill was always considered the front-runner on the GOP side but had to fight hard to seal the win over state Sens. Corey Stapleton of Billings and Ken Miller of Laurel. AP Photo/Dylan Brown, Independant Record Steve Bullock and John Walsh supporters cheer, after Bullock gives a speech Tuesday nigh i... Full story
NEW YORK (AP) — The Dow Jones industrial average surged 286 points, its best day this year. AP Photo/Richard Drew Anthony Riccio works with fellow traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange . The Dow jumped 2.4 percent to close Wednesday at 12,415. The gain turned the index positive for the year and erased a 275-point plunge set off by a dismal U.S. jobs report last Friday. Hope that Europe would help ease the region's debt crisis helped launch the rally. A news report said European officials were moving quickly t... Full story
Tommy Ray Denny, 64, formerly of Rocky Boy, passed away on Monday, May 28, 2012, in Chicago, of natural causes. Tommy was born March 7, 1948, in Fort Belknap, Mont.,, to Walter Alex Denny and Nellie Peeper Anderson, and was raised in Rocky Boy. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps, and following his military service, he moved to Michigan and then to Illinois, where he settled in Chicago until his death. Tommy developed skills in the culinary arts and managed a restaurant in Chicago. He was a devoted son, brother, and uncle. He...
Havre High freshman Rachel Majers takes a cut during a Central A Conference softball game against Lewistown Saturday morning at the Sixth Avenue Memorial Field in Havre. The game was part of the Havre Invitational. For more, see Page B2, and online at www.havredailynews.com. Blue Pony Sydne Huston throws to first during Saturday's Havre Invite game against the Lewistown Golden Eagles. Last week the Havre High softball team had two very important conference games against one very tough team. And while one win would have...
WOLF POINT — The sign along U.S. Highway 2 proclaiming Wolf Point the official home of the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame has become a bitter reminder to residents of this northeastern Montana town of what might have been. The Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame & Western Heritage Center announced last Monday that Big Timber has been selected as the new home for the hall of fame, a decision that reverses the state Legislature's 2003 designation of Wolf Point as the site. AP Photo/Jeff Tucker This photo provided by Jeff Tucker shows t... Full story
PARIS — Socialist Francois Hollande defeated conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday to become France's next president, heralding a change in how Europe tackles its debt crisis and how France flexes its military and diplomatic muscle around the world. Sarkozy conceded defeat minutes after the polls closed, saying he had called Hollande to wish him "good luck" as the country's new leader. AP Photo/Bob Edme Socialist Party candidate for the presidential election Francois Hollande and his companion Valerie T...
The Montana State University-Northern football team has played a game or two in August before, but not one with as much meaning as the one the Lights will play in 2012. Northern recently released its finalized schedule for the upcoming 2012 Frontier Conference football season, and the season-opener is as big as it gets. The Lights will open the season on Friday, Aug. 24 with a night game against the 2011 NAIA runner- MSU-Northern's Stephen Silva runs away from Carroll College... Full story
Ask and you shall receive. The Havre High boys and girls tennis teams were hoping to get a lot of court time and strong competition at this weekend's Helena Invitational, and that's exactly what the Blue Ponies got. Threatening skies held off for two days of what Blue Pony head coach George Ferguson said is the best high school tennis tournament in Montana, and his teams did quite well. Though team scores are not kept at the Helena Invite, the Ponies played well and sent several players and doubles teams deep into the second... Full story
Havre High's Peyton Filius races in the 1,600 meters against several Lewistown runners at Saturday's triangular meet at the Havre Middle School Track. Filius won the event as the Pony boys and girls competed against Lewistown and Malta. Hosting yet another cold and windy track meet on the Hi-Line, both the Havre High boys and girls track and field teams performed at a high level over the weekend. The Central A Blue Ponies hosted a triangular meet with Lewistown and Malta at the Havre Middle School track on Saturday. And... Full story
Havre High's Davee McLeod throws to first during Saturday's Havre Invitational game against Glasgow. All season long, the Havre High softball program has been able to find ways to follow a handful of tough losses with a convincing win. That proved to be true again over the weekend, when the Central A Blue Ponies answered two consecutive losses to the Lewistown Golden Eagles with a solid win over the Class B Glasgow Scotties. After losing 13-2 in five innings on Thursday in Lewistown, the Ponies also suffered a 15-5 loss to th...
BILLINGS — Montana interim football coach Mick Delaney says he will coach through the 2012 season. Delaney was named interim coach last Friday, a day after former coach Robin Pflugrad was relieved of his duties and informed that his contract would not be renewed. Delaney told The Billings Gazette (http://bit.ly/HBRVEA ) on Thursday he would not have taken the position if the school was going to hire a new coach over the summer. Delaney had been a UM assistant for the past four years. He retired in February. His previous h... Full story
WASHINGTON — The job market slowed in March as companies hit the brakes on hiring amid uncertainty about the economy's growth prospects. The unemployment rate dipped, but mostly because more Americans stopped looking for work. The Labor Department says the economy added 120,000 jobs in March, down from more than 200,000 in each of the previous three months. The unemployment rate fell to 8.2 percent, the lowest since January 2009. But the rate dropped because fewer people searched for jobs. The official unemployment tally o...
Montana State University-Northern head volleyball coach Bill Huebsch is continuing to add to an outstanding recruiting class. Huebsch recently announced the signing of Miranda Doing to the Skylights. Doing is a 5-11 middle blocker who is transferring to Northern from NCAA Division II Alaska-Anchorage. Doing went to Anchorage from La Mirada High School in La Mirda, Calif., and she also played at Pasadena City College. In high school, Doing was an All-CIF Division lll selection... Full story
Update 8 p.m.: Havre vs Belgrade doubleheader moved to April 20 The Havre High softball team is excited to make its home debut this weekend, but the Blue Ponies also know they have a very tough test in front of them, as they host what is probably the top team in the conference. Saturday, the Central A Blue Ponies will play at home for the first time this season. And with just one weekend of action behind th Havre High's Michaela Boles fields a ball during a Central A fastpitch softball game last spring in Havre. As of press...
Like always, weather is playing tricks on the Havre High tennis teams. All week long, the Blue Havre High's Justin Jensen swipes a forehand during a 2011 Class A state tennis tournament match last spring. The Ponies will be at home Monday for the Havre Invitational. Ponies have practiced in warm, sunny conditions, but that's about to change, and so too has the date of the upcoming Havre Invitational. With another winter storm bearing down on the Hi-Line, the 2012 Havre Invitational has been moved from Saturday to Monday. The...
BILLINGS (AP) — Exxon Mobil Corp. is working with government agencies on a plan to speed up the response to oil spills along Montana's upper Yellowstone River, after a major spill last year left local officials scrambling to deal with an ill-defined threat, state and federal officials said. The goal is to provide enough training and resources to take action on major pipeline, refinery or railway spills within 24 hours, or before outside help can arrive. Exxon would pay to plan and possibly equip the stepped-up response u... Full story
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A Navy jet with two aviators aboard crashed Friday into an apartment building in Virginia Beach, according to the Navy and media reports. There were no immediate reports of injuries on the ground. TV footage showed black smoke billowing from near some buildings and local TV stations said the jet hot an apartment building. The Navy did not immediately return telephone messages left by The Associated Press. But the Navy confirmed on its official Twitter account that both pilots ejected. They were b... Full story
The National Weather Service this morning still was predicting severe winter weather in north-central and central Montana, with more counties added to a prediction that was upgraded from a blizzard watch to a blizzard warning. Despite the larger area and upgraded status, the forecast has backed off slightly on how severe the blizzard might be. The watch issued Thursday morning included Choteau, Hill, Blaine, Phillips and Valley counties, with most of the state south of that area listed with a winter storm warnings. The...
Montana's U. S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., said waiting on the U. S. Supreme Court's decision on health care reform is complicating his life in more ways than just deciding whether parts of the law are constitutional — or good policy — or not. Rehberg said that because four possible results could come from the ruling — essentially doubled by the question of whether cuts will be forced by sequestration — he has to prepare a series of budget proposals in the Appropriations Committee subcommittee he chairs, Labor, Health...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Carl Little cuts 12 inches of the hair of his wife, Courtney Little, during a Jump Rope for Heart and Hoops for Heart closing assembly at Box Elder Schools Thursday afternoon. Courtney Little, Box Elder Elementary School fifth-grade teacher, promised to get her locks cut if the school reached its $10,000 goal of raising money for the American Heart Association. The school passed that amount, raising a total of $10,401.43 for the organization. Courtney Little donated her hair to Locks of Love.... Full story
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Two Navy pilots ejected from a fighter jet Friday, sending the unmanned plane careening into a Virginia Beach apartment complex and tearing the roof off at least one building that was engulfed in flames, officials said. Local officials reported three injuries, including the pilot, but no deaths. The Navy said both people on board the jet ejected before it crashed around noon and were being taken to hospitals for observation. Live video from WAVY-TV showed dozens of police cars, fire trucks and o... Full story
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Two Navy pilots ejected from a fighter jet Friday, sending the unmanned plane careening into a Virginia Beach apartment complex and tearing the roof off at least one building that was engulfed in flames, officials said. At least three people were taken to hospitals, including both pilots, officials said. The Navy said both aviators on board the jet ejected before it crashed around noon and were being taken to hospitals for observation. AP Photo/ WVEC-TV In this image made from video and provided by... Full story
KALISPELL — An injured soldier who struggled daily to overcome the physical challenges left by an explosion in Iraq died early Sunday morning in his sleep, just two weeks before a home being built for him and his family was due to be finished. Sgt. Kevin White, 29, leaves behind his wife, Juliane, and a 15-month-old son, Liam, who now will move into their new home without him. AP Photo/Daily Inter Lake, Brenda Ahearn An emotional Juliane White, center, gets a hug from her mother, Ann, and a kiss from her father, O. T. G... Full story
