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On the Hi-Line, when high school basketball season hits, it hits hard. That will be the case again this weekend, as there will be three major pre-season tournaments taking place at local gymnasiums to kick off the 2012-2013 prep season. Today, Friday, and Saturday, there will be a basketball tournaments in Chester, Big Sandy, and in Havre. The tournament in Havre will be the annual Native American Classic (NAC), taking place at the Armory Gymnasium on the campus of Montana State University-Northern. All three tournaments will...
Laurel — New Montana State University-Northern Chancellor Jim Limbaugh has landed in Havre with both feet on the ground. He spent part of last week in Bozeman for meetings. We're sure he won't find this the most fun part of his job. Then he spent time meeting with people on campus. That part should be more interesting. Laurel — Jim Kyle of Darby is in his 80s, but he continues to give blood, Over his lifetime, he has donated 23 gallons of blood, and plans to keep on going. Laurel — The temperatures this week are between 80 an...
A freshman at the University of Montana is hoping friends in Hill County will help him with his hoped-for modeling career. Harold Whitford Jr., an 18-year-old Box Elder High School graduate, is a nursing student at Missoula but aspires to be a model. Caesar Elite Modeling Agency in New York City is holding a contest to see which potential model can get the most likes on its Facebook page. Whitford thinks he can, and he's putting up a good show so far. The contest ends of Monday, so he's asking friends to join in the effort. "...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Kathy McGowan introduces a round-table discussion Wednesday afternoon in the fireside room at the HRDC building. Only one legislator attended a forum in Havre Wednesday where a score of health care professionals talked about their priorities for legislation in the next lawmaking session in Helena. Sen. -elect Greg Jergeson, D-Chinook, participated in an hour-long discussion of what the health care providers and public health officials from Hill and Blaine counties want to see, and are afraid of...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Casey Pratt plays Freddie Filmore in "It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play" Wednesday night during a dress rehearsal in the Montana State University-Northern theatre. The local acting troupe is turning to the radio to produce a Christmas classic starting this weekend. Montana Actors' Theatre opens playwright Joe Landry's "It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play" in the Little Theatre at Montana State University-Northern Friday. The play is based on the 1946 movie starring Jimmy Stewart and...
A storm is brewing in northern Hill County, as farmers and ranchers from all over the state have grown increasingly vocal in their opposition to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks buying up nearly 3,000 acres of Canada-bordering land owned by David and Verges Aageson. The thunderhead is expected to roll through Havre Monday at 9 a. m. in the Great Northern Inn's Empire Builder conference room, where FWP will be setting up an additional way for the public to listen and contribute to the FWP Commissioners meeting that morning,...
The North Star Knights and the Big Sandy Pioneers have both been outstanding volleyball teams this season. And that's why it was only fitting that the two District 6C East rivals squared off one last time, with everything hanging in the balance. The Knights and Pioneers met in the fourth-place match Saturday at the Northern C Divisional in Belt, just one week after the two teams played three epic matches at the 6C East Tournament in Chinook. And like the final title bout in...
Paraskevi (Voula) Dritsoulas Paraskevi (Voula) Dritsoulas, age 81, passed away at her home in Prodromos, Greece, on Oct. 31, 2012. Voula was born Sept. 12, 1931, to Theodore and Ekaterini Kovani in Greece. On May 18, 1952, she married Serafim "Sam" Dritsoulas. Together they had two children, a son and a daughter. In 1970 the family immigrated to the United States and made Havre, Mont., their new home. Sam and Voula left behind their life in Greece to make a better life for their children. She arrived in the United States not...
The Havre Food Bank is offering a sit-down opportunity to help feed the needy in the Havre area, with "A Chair at the Table" fundraiser set for Friday at the Atrium. Karen Thomas, executive director of the District 4 Human Resources Development Council that oversees the operations of the food bank, said money raised will help pay the bills to keep the food bank operating, with up to $5,000 raised matched dollar-for-dollar by the Town Pump Foundation. "And, we're going to have a lot of fun, I think, " she said. Diane Getten,...
The Havre Police Department got a call of support during the public comment section of the Havre City Council meeting Monday night from Doris Halverson, one of the jurors on council member Rick Dow's traffic ticket trial last month. Halverson told the council that local law enforcement needed better tools in the investigation of Dow's charge of using a cellphone while driving. "I would like to ask that the law be enforced, " Halverson said. "When they try to do it; sometimes it doesn't work. I would like to see them have...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown John F. Doney, chair of the Hays-Lodge Pole Board of Trustees, sits Oct. 22 in a classroom at Hays-Lodge Pole High School which would, the following Monday, be filled with students relocated from the recently closed Lodge Pole Elementary School. Blaine County Attorney Don Ranstrom has begun the process of charging Hays-Lodge Pole School Board Chair John F. Doney with several counts of official misconduct. His actions come just a few weeks after the board shut down Lodge Pole Elementary School...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Larrie Halverson fills out his ballot Tuesday morning at the Precinct 2 voting location in the Lincoln-McKinley Primary School gymnasium. In one of the most closely watched elections in recent history, polls opened today for people — who haven't already mailed in their ballots — to go cast their votes ranging from for U. S. president to county commissioners. Polls in most locations opened 7 a. m., and are open to voters through 8 p. m. Montana has seen an upsurge in people voting absentee thi...
As Montanans surge to the polls today, some legislators are already working on changing state laws that say who, how and when future voters can register or cast their ballots. Rep. Ted Washburn, R-Bozeman, says he plans to propose bills in the 2013 Legislature that would eliminate same-day voter registration, stiffen voter identification laws, and require a longer period of residency before a citizen can vote. Voters line up outside the Missoula Election Center at the Missoula Fairgrounds on Tuesday morning to register to...
WASHINGTON — Rising prices and unemployment were heavy on the minds of voters Tuesday even as a glimmer of optimism peeked through, with 4 in 10 saying the nation's economy is getting better. The voters were in wide agreement that the economy still has far to go — three-fourths said it was poor or not so good, according to preliminary results of exit polls. Only a fourth thought they were better off financially than four years ago when President Barack Obama was elected. Voters were most likely to say their families were doi...
UPDATE 12:50 p.m.: Republican Wendy Warburton is projected to win in the race for House District 34 over Democrat Karen Sloan. Watch an interview with Hill County Republican Chair Andrew Brekke. Also, watch an interview with Hill County Democratic Chair John Musgrove. Vote counts and election results will be posted here as they become available. Refresh this page periodically for the latest numbers. View the raw data here, updated live as results come in. HD 33: 3 of 10 precincts reporting. HD 34: 7 of 9 precincts reporting....
HELENA - A federal judge has denied a secretive conservative group's request to block its past bank records from being released to the public. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen denied the request by American Tradition Partnership on Tuesday. Christensen says in his order that ATP's request appears to be an appeal of a state court's judgment. ATP filed the request for a temporary restraining order after District Judge Jeffrey Sherlock of Helena ordered the records' release. They include bank account activity, copies of...
Update 12:40 p.m.: 146 of 794 precints fully reported, 469 precincts partially reported. Vote counts and election results will be posted here as they become available. Refresh this page periodically for the latest numbers. View the raw data, updated live as it becomes available, here....
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney is conceding that his hard-fought presidential bid has ended in failure. He told supporters in Boston that he gave it his all and that he is now praying that President Barack Obama will be successful in guiding the nation. Romney said, "This election is over, but our principles endure." Obama, meanwhile, tweeted to supporters, "This happened because of you. Thank you." Obama was chalking up additional victories in states that the polls had said could go either way. After winning Virginia's 13 e...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama rolled to re-election Tuesday night, vanquishing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney despite a weak economy that plagued his first term and put a crimp in the middle class dreams of millions. In victory, he confidently promised better days ahead. Obama spoke to thousands of cheering supporters in his hometown of Chicago, praising Romney and declaring his optimism for the next four years. "While our road has been hard, though our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have...
More shake ups in the NAIA Top 25, as the final Coaches Poll before the playoffs was released on Monday afternoon. Southern Oregon made a move up two spots to No. 12 this week, but the Red Raiders still need to beat Montana Tech in order to be assured of a playoff berth. The Orediggers remained at No. 7 as they head to Ashland to take on SOU this Saturday. Carroll College tumbled for the second straight week, falling to No. 22, the Saints' lowest ranking since 2002. Carroll...
The Montana State University-Northern wrestling team wrapped up a long road trip to Wyoming with some good wrestling and good competition. On Saturday, the Lights competed in the annual Cowboy Open hosted by the University of Wyoming in Laramie. Northern had four third-place finishers in a tournament which featured a host of quality NCAA Division I programs. Top-ranked Ethan Hinebauch placed third in the elite division at 165 pounds, as did Max Payne at 174. Hinebauch won...
PHOENIX (AP) — Friendly fire likely was to blame in a shooting near the Arizona-Mexico line that killed one federal agent and wounded another, the FBI said, noting the investigation was still ongoing in the case that reignited the political debate over border security. "There are strong preliminary indications that the death of United States Border Patrol Agent Nicholas J. Ivie and the injury to a second agent was the result of an accidental shooting incident involving only the agents," FBI Special Agent in Charge James L. T...
BILLINGS (AP) — The state has acknowledged that a century-old law limiting the speech of clergy regarding candidates and ballot issues is unconstitutional. The Billings Gazette reports U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull approved a settlement Tuesday in the case of a Billings minister who sued the state after being arrested on trespassing charges while gathering signatures for a ballot measure seeking to amend the state's constitution to define unborn children as persons. Calvin Zastrow, a minister for the Assemblies of G...
HELENA — Democratic Sen. Jon Tester is hanging on in a brutal re-election battle in Montana despite a drag from President Barack Obama, who is poised to lose big in this sparsely populated, libertarian-minded state. His opponent, Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg, has been unable to pull ahead of the first-term senator after trying to tie him to Obama and the president's signature health care law. Victory probably lies in the dwindling ranks of undecided voters. "In Montana, I know where Rep. Rehberg stands at, and I know w...
Saturday's Scores The Associated Press PREP FOOTBALL Belt 44, Fort Benton 20 Big Sandy 54, North Star 8 Chester-Joplin-Inverness 74, Sunburst 0 Chinoo Big Sandy's Jessey Bailey escapes a North Star tackler during Saturday's Six-Man football game in Rudyard. k 51, Simms 6 Fromberg/Roberts 57, West Yellowstone 20 Hot Springs 65, Lone Peak 6 Lima 66, St. Regis 31 Savage 60, Rosebud 22 Scobey 64, Hays-Lodgepole 0 Terry 59, Ekalaka 6 Victor 64, Darby 20 Wibaux 64, Froid/Medicine Lake 16...
