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A fugitive and his suspected female accomplice who have been tracked across the West — from Arizona to New Mexico to Wyoming — have apparently fled to an area ne a r Montana ' s Gl a c i e r National Park, authorities said. The search for inmate John McCluskey, 45, and Casslyn Welch, 44, focused for a time on sprawl ing, tour i s t -packed Yellowstone National Park, which straddles Wyoming and Montana. But the U.S. Marshal s Service said late Monday it has received tips from the area east of Glacier National Park near the...
Harry S. Truman defined leadership as "men making history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." In many cases though, leadership needs to be distinguished from posturing. There has been a lot of posturing by the Havre City Council members regarding business licenses and their decision to put the business license proposal on the back burner. Last week the Planning and...
With so many good quarterbacks and running backs in the Frontier Conference, a key to staying competitive in football games is having a good defensive line. Last season, the Montana State University- Northern Lights played without two all-American defensive linemen, while on the other side of the coin, the Carroll College Fighting Saints had a plethora of all-conference performers on the d-line. Most of Carroll's standouts graduated last spring, while Northern gets its defensive-end duo back for the 2010 season. Returning to...
NEW YORK — No fed-up worker has ever said "I've had it" quite like Steven Slater. Prosecutors say the JetBlue flight attendant flipped out over a fight with an agitated traveler Monday, cursing at the passengers before grabbing some beer from the plane's galley and making a grand exit down the emergency slide at Kennedy Airport. He has been charged with felonies and elevated to folk-hero status by thousands who shrugged off allegations that Slater endangered others and praised him for his take-this-job-and-shove-it moment. S...
President Barack Obama on Saturday declared Hill County and the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation in north-central Montana a disaster area after severe storms and flooding swept through the area in June. The declaration means federal money will be available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit groups for emergency work and repair. "We are thankful the president recognized the severity of this situation and acted quickly," said Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, a Democrat, in a statement. "Now the...
HELENA (AP) President Barack Obama on Saturday declared Hill County and the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation a disaster area due to severe storms and flooding that occurred in June. The declaration means federal money will be available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit groups for emergency work and repair. Hundreds of people on the reservation are still without safe drinking water more than two weeks after flooding broke the reservation's water lines, tore up roads and forced dozens of...
Montana Actors' Theatre is bringing one of the most well-known stories in the world to life in Havre this week, with its production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" opening tonight at 8 p.m. MAT founder and President Jay Pyette, who is acting in the production as well as directing it with his wife, Dana Pyette, said the production is a rearrangement of the show's schedule. The company of actors had planned to produce the show in Havre this fall, including productions in local schools. Pyette said the community showed enough...
Several contested primaries were decided in Tuesday's election, with the voters selecting who will go on to the November general elections, or, in some cases, selecting the official who will take or remain in office next January. In Blaine County, incumbent Commissioner Don Swenson won the Democratic primary, defeating challenger William Harbolt by a vote of 200-156 in the unofficial results. All election results are considered unofficial until the vote can be canvassed, usually within a few weeks of the election. Swenson wi...
More than 12,000 nurses launched a one-day strike today at 14 Minnesota hospitals in a dispute over staffing levels and pension benefits. Nurses wearing red T-shirts and carrying signs began walking picket lines at 7 a.m. today at the hospitals, all in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. At Abbott Northwestern Hospital near downtown Minneapolis, one nurse serenaded several hundred others by playing "Amazing Grace" on bagpipes. Passing motorists honked horns. A key issue in the dispute was the nurses' demand for strict...
He was never in any real danger of losing, but political observers say the GOP primary should serve as a wake-up call for Denny Rehberg all the same. Rehberg, who is seeking his sixth term as Montana's sole congressman, had never faced a primary challenger since he was first elected in 2001. This year, he faced two — including a self-billed "constitutional conservative" who tried to use the tea party movement and Rehberg's insider status as levers to oust the incumbent. "I think the fact that he's attracted several opponents...
Life is Big. I met Sharon at a workshop at Mt. Shasta, Calif., in 1992. We all sat in a circle and introduced ourselves. The workshop leader asked us to buddy up, explaining that we were to work in teams of two. Sharon and I looked across the circle, nodded and grinned. Instant buddies. That week we forged a friendship. Our lives were vastly different. I lived in a house in the woods in rural Poulsbo, Wash. Sharon had an apartment in the heart of downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. Sharon, a single woman, had traveled all...
We'd like to clear the air regarding all the rumors circulating about Beaver Creek Golf Course. We are not closing the course for the year, we haven't gone bankrupt, and the course isn't covered with fecal matter. Since last Friday, we have had golfers out enjoying the great weather. There are areas that are still muddy that are, however, drying out quickly and will be ready for the HEDA tourney this weekend. (Yes, we will use carts.) It's been said that Havre can't possibly support two golf courses; that has proven wrong....
Funeral services for Ruth A. Hodges, 94, will be 3 p.m. Friday at the Bethel Lutheran Church in Joplin. Burial to follow at the Joplin Cemetery. Arrangements are by Rockman Funeral Chapel in Chester....
The month of June just got started, but the Havre American Legion baseball team isn't wasting any time getting more games under its belt. After a four-game home stand last weekend, the North Stars are headed back to the diamond for five more. Today through Sunday the North Stars will host their annual Memorial Tournament at Legion Field in Havre. The North Stars are 5-1 in conference play and 8-6 overall. And with eight teams coming to town, Havre has an opportunity to hopefully add a few more notches to the win column....
The Havre High track teams finished strong at home this weekend, and performing on the sunniest day Havre has seen in a while, the Blue Ponies put on an all-around good show. Saturday at the Havre Middle School Track the Central A Pony boys and girls track teams hosted a triangular with Malta and Lewistown. The HHS boys finished first with 82 points, outscoring the Mustangs with 50 and the Golden Eagles with 49. And the HHS girls finished second with 57 points, barely being edged out by the M-Ettes with 58. The Eagles were th...
With recent rain and snow, the amount of water in the Milk River has led the federal Bureau of Reclamation to cut back on its release of water into the river. "Recent precipitation across the (Milk River) Basin has significantly changed water release forecasts from a few weeks ago," Mike LaFrentz, field manager of the Marias/Milk Rivers Division located in Chester, said in a press release. "The snow and rain will contribute towards a better water year for all Milk River project beneficiaries." As of this morning, the BOR...
Montana will probably take the middle-of-the-road approach to the problem of medical marijuana, Gov. Brian Schweitzer predicted. When the state Legislature convenes in January," The Legislature will have 100 bills introduced," he said. "They will run the gamut. "There will be calls to legalize it and tax it," he said. "And some will say, 'Dang it, it's out of control. Make it illegal.'" The likely outcome will be regulations to ensure that people who need it will get it, the governor predicted in an interview with the Havre...
Gov. Brian Schweitzer got a bit emotional during his address to graduates at Montana State University- Northern commencement Saturday. He spoke of his four grandparents — all of whom homesteaded in Hill County. His father, Adam, died last year. "He was 89, and he had a good run," the governor told the crowd. "He never finished high school," he said. "That's not something I talk about a lot, but I will today," he said. "The proudest days in his life were when he saw his children, all six of us, graduate from college," Schweitz...
Searching resumed this morning after a 5-year-old boy from Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation fell in Lower Box Elder Creek Sunday afternoon. At approximately 3:30 p.m. Sunday the Rocky Boy Police Department received a report that the boy, who had been playing near the creek with at least one other child of similar age, had fallen in the creek, which is swollen from spring run off. Tim Martin, director of public safety for Rocky Boy, declined to release the name until the boy is recovered. "We have high water runoff on Lower Box...
A medical marijuana patient is short 23 plants after the Tri-Agency Safe Trails Drug Task Force confiscated the surplus Wednesday evening. Agents visited the home on the 200 block of Illinois Avenue in Chinook at approximately 8 p.m. that day to investigate a report of marijuana plants being grown in the basement, said Pete Federspiel, the director of the task force. Charges in the Chinook seizure are pending, Federspiel said, declining to release the man's name until they are filed. He expects them to be filed in Blaine...
Billings fire officials say a firebomb was thrown into a medical marijuana business and "NOT IN OUR TOWN" was spray painted on the storefront. Fire crews were called at about 4:30 a.m. today, and the fire at Montana Therapeutics on Grand Avenue was quickly put out. Billings police are investigating. The Billings City Council is scheduled to vote tonight on whether to place a moratorium on medical marijuana businesses. The city has issued more than 80 business licenses for the stores....
On Saturday, Montana State University-Northern's graduating Class of 2010 walked to receive certificates and diplomas representing years of dedication and hard work. For the last four years, the city of Havre has housed an incredible woman who did not hear her name called out on Saturday, though she has given four years of hard work toward earning a bachelor's degree. Alex Cataudella is only 13 years old. At the age of 7, her father gave his life to his country in Iraq. Alex has helped her mother do everything from basic...
I am a medical marijuana patient with Crohn's disease living here in Havre. I am a hard-working, tax-paying, law-abiding citizen, protected under the Constitution. Recently the medical marijuana issue has gotten out of hand. The only reason given for "allowing" medical marijuana here has been how much money can be made off of it. While it is true that it would be a good boost to our economy, the real reason is quite simple — our right to medical treatment. The reason for having medical marijuana is so that those suffering a...
A new report shows that western Montana's forests are seeing near-record dry conditions so far this year — exactly 100 years after the Great Fire of 1910. The annual drought report, delivered to the governor Friday, warned that snowpack is about half of normal in some river basins in the west. That, along with millions of acres of forest land packed with trees killed by beetles, could lead to another bad fire season. "The potential for a very active fire year is out there," said Mary Sexton, director of the Department of N...
President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court this morning, declaring the former Harvard Law School dean "one of the nation's foremost legal minds." She would be the court's youngest justice and give it three female members for the first time. The nomination to replace liberal retiring Justice John Paul Stevens set the stage for a bruising confirmation battle, t h o u g h m a t h e m a t i c a l l y Democrats should be able to prevail in the end. At 50, Kagan, is relatively young for the...
