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In some ways, tonight will be a historic night of basketball at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. In others, it will be a look to the not-so-distant future. Tonight, the MSU-Northern Lights and Skylights will play Dick Montana State University-Northern's Devin Jackson (right) drives to the basket during a men's college basketball Oct. 8 in Havre. The Lights host Dickinson State tonight. inson State University for the final time – as a nonconference opponent. At this time next y...
Havre Daily News/Tim Leeds John Damson, left, and his attorney, Jeremy Yellin, listen to District Judge David Cybulski during Damson's arraignment this morning. Damson pleaded not guilty to felony charges of sexual assault and incest. A Havre man pleaded not guilty today to charges he sexually molested a toddler, with the judge suggesting a February trial date, but the defendant's attorney saying it might take longer to prepare. John M. Damson of Havre was charged July 29 with felony counts of sexual assault and incest....
The city of Havre's recent discussions about the laws concerning vicious animals have turned out to be impeccably timed. The Nov. 8 Ordinance Committee meeting on the subject was followed by discussions between Havre's Animal Control Officer Gordon Inabnit and City Judge Margaret Hencz about what could be done to strengthen the enforcement of the existing law rather than composing a new one. Less than two weeks later, the new procedure was put to the test. On Nov. 18, Inabnit was called when two pit bulls were running around...
Members of the Montana State University-Northern faculty union is meeting today to discuss how to proceed in contract negotiations with the state, after rejecting the first attempt less than a month ago. During the third week of November, the Montana Board of Regents was scheduled to sign off on the final contract with the Northern faculty. Earlier that week however, the Northern union voted 26-17 to reject the contract. This is the first time in faculty memories that a contract has been rejected. And among those 26 no...
Walter E. Hettrick, 88, of Big Sandy, passed away at Northern Montana Hospital due to natural causes. His funeral service will be at Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011, at 2 p.m....
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — A gunman killed a police officer and another person after a traffic stop Thursday on the campus of Virginia Tech, the school said, and students and faculty were told to stay inside university buildings as police searched for the suspect. It was the first shooting on campus since 33 people were killed in 2007 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. AP Photo/The Roanoke Times, Matt Gentry Police officers block a road on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va., after a gunman killed a p...
LEWISTOWN — After spending nearly 29 years behind bars, convicted murderer Barry Beach was released on his own recognizance Wednesday to await a new trial in the 1979 death of a 17-year-old girl on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. District Judge E. Wayne Phillips ordered Beach's release at a hearing in Lewistown just weeks after ordering a new trial for the 49-year-old man. AP Photo/Billings Gazette, Larry Mayer Surrounded by the media, Barry Beach hugs family members after his release by District Judge Wayne Phillips in L...
The afternoon rituals of many Havre High School students will soon be interrupted as a popular shortcut through the alleyway south of 17th Street will be made one-way going east. That will force the teenage speed demons into the flow of the rest of the 17th Street exodus as school lets out for lunch and at the end of the day. After spending a few weeks considering options on how to handle alley traffic after complaints from residents in the area, the Havre City Council voted on Monday night to install one-way traffic signs...
A nationwide emergency alert system will kick into operation Wednesday, but officials are urging people not to be alarmed — "This is only a test, is the big thing to remember, " Hill County Disaster and Emergency Services Coordinator Joe Parenteau said Monday. For the first time ever, an alert system will be used that blankets the entire country, sending out signals to radio and television stations nationwide. Parenteau said that, while the system has been used and tested on local, regional and state levels, this is the f...
All Montana State University-Northern wants for Christmas is a new chancellor — well, maybe more funding and students wouldn't hurt — and this week they have begun seriously shopping. Over the course of this week, the four final candidates chosen by the 20-member search committee set up late last spring will be in Havre to meet with various groups over each candidate's two-day visit, from the student senate to the heads of administrative departments, including an hour-long session for the community. On Monday night, a few...
A Havre man is being arraigned today for an 11th charge of drunken driving, two counts of assaulting police officers and other misdemeanor counts. Rick Logan, born in 1962, was arrested Oct. 29, after a man called police to say Logan had made a left turn and struck his vehicle with the black Dodge pickup truck Logan was driving. When an officer contacted Logan, he smelled alcohol on the defendant's breath. Logan resisted the officer and later struggled with the officer and detention center officers, striking one in the face,...
It is election day and time for at least a quarter of Havre's voters to exercise their democratic power in Ward 3. While nothing too exciting is expected to come out of wards 1, 2 and 4, where candidates Bonnie Parenteau, Brian Barrows and Andrew Brekke are running unopposed, Ward 3 will be getting the attention as the only contested race between Democratic incumbent Bob Kaul and Republican challenger Rick Dow. People can still bring their ballots into the Clerk and Recorder's Office in the Hill County Courthouse by 8 p. m.,...
Havre City Council may have voted to show its support for the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Foundation's effort to have a roadside sign be placed by the Wahkpa Chu'gn Buffalo Jump mural on the hill by Murphy's Pub, but that apparently does not mean the city actually has to. Elaine Morse, the foundation's president who came to request a letter of support from the council on Oct. 17, came to Monday's council meeting to ask them why, almost a month later, the letter had not been written. She was further frustrated that she had b...
Havre Mayor Tim Solomon was right on target when he wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano asking her to continue to an experiment under which hours at Wild Horse port are extended during the warm weather. For two years, there have been some minor blunders on both sides of the border. That notwithstanding, the number of people coming through Wild Horse has increased. The hours should be extended for the convenience of residents on both sides of the border who like or need to cross the border at...
Is it just me or do people in the "Occupy" movement seem mostly interested in occupying their time? They'd be better off trying to occupy that vast empty space between their ears; but why bother when someone will give you a slogan and armband for free. The whole thing is starting to look like an amateurish knockoff of European austerity protests. Now those people know how to riot. Carl Graham In the beginning it included Ron Paul conservatives with "End the Fed" signs and a lot of ordinary people with legitimate gripes about...
Editor: Montana is again experiencing a growth in groups that claim racial, ethnic or religious superiority, and demonize those whom they consider inferior to themselves. The members of the Montana Association of Churches stand against the theology and politics of division and hatred. We affirm that all people are created in God's image. We repudiate any teachings that place one race above the others, one set of people above the others. It simply does not fit with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As citizens we honor others'...
Veterans Day is this week, a time when we reflect on the greatness of our nation and the freedoms we all enjoy. As active and retired federal employees, we thank those in the military for the sacrifices they've made. We, too, are proud of our nation and of our service to it. Each day in communities across Montana and the nation, federal employees go to work serving the public, making sure mail is delivered, food is safe to eat and planes travel safely through our skies. We also work to stop the spread of deadly diseases,...
MISSOULA (AP) — Police in Missoula have reviewed cellphone videos as part of an internal investigation over the use of a stun gun in the arrests of two University of Montana football players. Police Chief Mark Muir says the videos do not show any of the officers using force or anything leading up to the officers' use of force. He tells KECI-TV (http://bit.ly/v7DaFX ) the video does not support claims by the players' attorney that police used excessive force in arresting two players during a loud party early on Oct. 23. An o...
AP Photo/Andrew Medichini Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, right, talks to Interior Minister Roberto Maroni during a voting session at the Lower Chamber, in Rome, Tuesday. ROME (AP) — Premier Silvio Berlusconi says his decision to resign after parliament passes economic reforms is for the good of the country, and to settle financial markets that have lost confidence in Italy's ability to rein in debt and spur growth. Berlusconi said late Tuesday that he would prefer to call early elections, but that the decision rests w...
LAUREL — State workers on Tuesday set fire to an oil-tainted logjam on an island along the Yellowstone River, the last of dozens of debris piles smeared with crude from an Exxon Mobil pipeline break that dumped 42,000 gallons of oil into the waterway. Two employees of the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, Derek Yeager and Matt Wolcott, used drip torches to ignite the woody debris as Exxon Mobil contractors looked on. With a blast of heat and a spiral of smoke, the fire spread quickly through the o...
Kentucky's Democratic governor was re-elected Tuesday, and voters picked a new governor in Mississippi — decisions that could foreshadow the public's political mood just two months ahead of the first presidential primary and nearly four years into the worst economic slowdown since the Depression. In Ohio, voters restored the bargaining rights of public employees, and in Mississippi they considered whether life should be defined as beginning at conception. Supporters of the Mississippi measure hope to use it to mount a l...
Bonnie Parenteau has been elected City Council member from Ward 1. The Democrat, running without opposition, got 388 votes on Tuesday. City Judge Margaret Hencz received 443 votes in her unopposed bid for re-election. Andrew Brekke was re-elected City Council member from Ward 4 without opposition. Brekke, the Hill County Republican chair, got 337 votes. Hencz got 401 votes. `...
Bonnie Parenteau has been elected City Council member from Ward 1. The Democrat, running without opposition, got 388 votes on Tuesday. City Judge Margaret Hencz received 443 votes in her unopposed bid for re-election. Andrew Brekke was re-elected City Council member from Ward 4 without opposition. Brekke, the Hill County Republican chair, got 337 votes. Hencz got 401 votes. In Hingham, David George was re-elected to City Council with 46 votes Tuesday. Dan Horinek received 15 votes to win the second seat. No one had filed for...
Republican Rick Dow, making his first attempt for public office, defeated City Ward 3 council member Democrat Bob Kaul in Tuesday's voting. Dow's win is the latest in a string of victories for the Republicans, long the minority party in Havre and Hill County. Dow received 320 votes to Kaul's 264. Havre City Council Ward 3 Republican candidate Rick Dow thanks his supporters after winning the Ward 3 election Tuesday evening. Republicans gathered at the Duck Inn to celebrate, while Democrats were planning to have their election...
Kentucky and Mississippi refused to turn their governors' offices over to different parties Tuesday, despite the nation's economic woes, and Ohio restored full bargaining rights to tens of thousands of public employees in a major victory for organized labor. Also in Mississippi, voters rejected an initiative that would have defined life as beginning at conception — a measure that supporters had hoped to use to mount a legal attack on Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the right to abortion. A...
