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The year 2012 may be the end of history for the Mayans, but in Hill County, history is going strong, as the Hill County Museum Board comes off a strong year and into what looks to be an interesting one already. The first big news at Monday night's board meetings was when board Chair Judi Dritshulas announced that Toni Hagener, a former Hill County commissioner and local history buff, had recently donated $7,500 to the Wahkpa Chu'gn Buffalo Jump. As work continues to update the site, Elaine Morse, Museum Foundation president,...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Mitt Romney cruised to a solid victory in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, improving on his first-place finish in the lead-off Iowa caucuses and firmly establishing himself as the man to beat for the Republican presidential nomination. "Tonight we made history," Romney told cheering supporters before pivoting to a stinging denunciation of President Barack Obama. "The middle class has been crushed," in the past three years, he said, "our debt is too high and our opportunities too few" — rem...
BILLINGS — Authorities expanded their search Monday for a high school teacher who's missing from an oil boom town in northeast Montana, after recovering only a single running shoe since she failed to return from a weekend run. No solid evidence has emerged to indicate 43-year-old Sherry Arnold was kidnapped, authorities said. But FBI agents were called in to assist local law enforcement in the case, and an agency spokeswoman said the possibility of abduction was under investigation. AP Photo/The Billings Gazette, Larry M...
To no one's surprise, Montana State University-Northern senior guard Shaun Tatarka has been named Frontier Conference Men's Player of the Week. Tatarka is a 6-foot-1, senior guard from Great Falls, scored 26 points and hit 50 percent of his field goals (8 of 16) including 7-of-14 3-point field goals. His 26 points gave him 1,006 career points. Tatarka also had five rebounds, two assists and one steal. Tatarka became just the 17th Light to ever reach the 1,000-point mark in a...
MSU-Northern's Shaun Tatarka (middle) drives to the basket during last Friday's Frontier Conference men's basketball game against UGF in Havre. The newest NAIA men's and women's basketball coaches polls were released Monday night and while one Montana State University-Northern team garnered plenty of attention, another undeseverdly didn't. In the latest NAIA Men's Coaches Poll, the MSU-Northern Lights jumped from 19th to 13th. This week's ranking is the highest the Lights...
Big Sandy's Matelia Cline (left) shoots past a Rocky Boy defender during a girls basketball game last Thursday in Big Sandy. The Christmas break is over. Now, girls high school basketball on the Hi-Line is back in full swing. This past week's return to the hardwood saw action and excitement from Tuesday to Saturday as teams begin the trek Rocky Boy's Desiree Small (right) is defended by Big Sandy's Brooke Leader during a highchool girls basketball game last Thursday in Big...
Big Sandy's Justin Stevens (right) looks for a shot over a Rocky Boy defender during a boys high school basketball game last Thursday night in Big Sandy. Basketball was on somewhat on a hiatus over the holiday break, but it was back in full swing this week and weekend on the Hi-Line. Thursday fans saw three local games hit the Hi-Line. The 9C Big Sandy Pioneers took on long time rival, Class B Rocky Boy Stars in Big Sandy on Thursday and narrowly escaped with the home win, 77-75. The Pioneers took the lead and held the...
Corey Stapleton is putting his Navy training and his triathlon running experience to good use these days. The candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination is visiting all parts of the state, spreading his message and shaking hands. He's also sitting in front a computer, communicating with 600 to 800 people a day on Facebook. He's making fundraising calls to finance his way in the nine-way race to succeed Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who is barred from re-election because of term limits. "It takes 16 hours a...
The year 2012 may be the end of history for the Mayans, but in Hill County, history is going strong, as the Hill County Museum Board comes off a strong year and into what looks to be an interesting one already. The first big news at Monday night's board meetings was when board Chair Judi Dritshulas announced that Toni Hagener, a former Hill County commissioner and local history buff, had recently donated $7,500 to the Wahkpa Chu'gn Buffalo Jump. As work continues to update the site, Elaine Morse, Museum Foundation president,...
The Hill County Park Board in its monthly meeting Monday approved sending new Beaver Creek Park grazing regulations to the Hill County Commission for approval, contingent on review by the Hill County attorney. Board member Robbie Lucke presented the proposed new regulations, which the board has been discussing for several years. Cattle grazing on the park, overseen by the superintendent and a grazing committee, is a major part of Beaver Creek Park each fall and early winter. The grazing, which helps reduce the vegetation in...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Torgerson's LLC service technician Isaac Drugge grabs a wrench to begin repair on a Case IH 7120 combine in the Torgerson's shop Friday morning. From Oct. 22 to Nov. 21, Drugge worked on similar combines in Australia. Two Montanans saw some different crops and some different techniques during a recent harvest — a harvest on the opposite side of the world. Isaac Drugge, a service technician at Torgerson's LLC in Havre, and Lowell Harris, who works as a service technician for the farm implement d...
Bertha Margaret Goedert A family memorial service for Bertha Margaret Goedert will be held at a future date. At her request, cremation has taken place, and interment will be in the Lusk cemetery. Bertha entered heaven Dec. 25, 2011, at Ponderosa Villa in Crawford, Neb. She was born on Oct. 22, 1914, on a farm 15 miles south of Poplar, Mont. She went to a country school built on land donated from her mother's homestead, then graduated in 1933 from Poplar High School. Upon graduation, she held several jobs including...
HELENA — Federal agents claim in inadvertently released court documents that a former University of Montana quarterback caught up in a medical marijuana raid contemplated bribing police and politicians. But Jason Washington of Missoula told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Tuesday that the allegation is "ridiculous" and blown out of proportion by agents overhearing a running joke among friends. Drug Enforcement Agency agents said they were monitoring Washington's communications before raiding his and two other m...
BILLINGS — After four days with no answers, authorities said they were considering scaling back their search for a Montana math teacher who left her home for a pre-dawn run and never returned. The only publicized clue into Sherry Arnold's disappearance Saturday was a single running shoe, found by a ditch along her running route in her hometown of Sidney. FBI agent Deborah Bertrand said late Tuesday that tips were starting to come into an automated hotline set up for the case, but would not offer any details. The FBI and l...
MISSOULA (AP) — Doug Taylor remembers somebody saying a heartfelt "Oh Jesus" just as the Rimrock Stages bus careened into the median on Interstate 90 early Sunday morning. As the bus slid out of control, bounced onto its side, turned upright again and finally rolled onto its side for a second time, the 51-year-old Texan remembers experiencing two odd sensations. AP Photo/Missoulian, Kurt Wilson Doug Taylor, 51, of Austin Texas, describes the terrifying scene on Sunday morning, Jan. 8, when the Rimrock Stages bus he was r...
SYCAMORE, Ill. — A former Washington state policeman convicted of kidnapping and murdering a young Illinois girl more than a half century ago was sentenced Monday to life in prison. Jack McCullough, 73, was convicted in September in one of the oldest unsolved crimes in American history to make it to trial. Life in prison was the maximum sentence he faced. AP Photo/Daily Chronicle, Kyle Bursaw Pat Quinn and Charles Ridulph, brother and sister of Maria Ridulph, take questions outside the DeKalb County Courthouse in Syacmore, I...
BILLINGS — Montana wildlife commissioners on Monday closed down the gray wolf season in some areas outside Yellowstone National Park after several collared animals used for scientific research were shot in recent weeks. The closures prohibit hunting and trapping for the predators and include areas north of the park around the town of Gardiner. AP Photo/National Park Service, Doug Smith This May 2007 photo by National Park Service photographer Doug Smith shows a Leopold wolf pack hunting a bull elk in Yellowstone National P...
As the debate in Washington rages over how to avoid the fiscal cliff before the Jan. 1 deadline, some lawmakers are using Social Security and Medicare as bargaining chips. Among the proposals under consideration by legislative leaders is an effort to reduce the Cost of Living Adjustment or COLA that is regularly made to Social Security benefits. Joy Bruck The proposal on the table would change the way the COLA is calculated by moving to a chained consumer price index, or chained CPI. The proposal is complex, but the result...
A few months ago I wrote about the MyFitnessPal.com app that I had started using "to preserve my orangutan-like figure." I've been happy with the results. I'm down to chimpanzee-like, and appear on track to hit lemur-like sometime in the spring. Seeing how well having a plan, and empirically and simply following that plan, worked for physical problems, I wanted to see how the approach might work with another problem of mine, finances. Zach White When I first started working here, my college-student mind was blown by the idea...
CHICAGO (AP) — A 73-year-old man who was convicted this fall of kidnapping and murdering a little girl more than a half-century earlier was expected to return to court Monday for sentencing. Jack McCullough faces a maximum sentence of life in prison when he stands before a judge in the DeKalb County community of Sycamore, the same town where 7-year-old Maria Ridulph's life ended in December 1957. AP Photo/Courtesy the Ridulph family via the Chicago Sun-Times Maria Ridulph sits with family members in Illinois. Jack M...
The predicted snowstorm did blanket Montana over the weekend, with north-central Montana seeing about 2 inches of snowfall, with the temperatures dropping to the sub-zero range by Sunday morning. Other parts of the state saw significantly more snow — a half-foot in some areas — but the forecast for this week calls for a slight chance of snow through the week and warmer temperatures, in the 20s and 30s, in this area. The snow moved over the Rocky Mountains Thursday, breaking over the front and spilling onto the plains by Fri...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Nearly a hundred people gather Monday morning in conference room in Havre's Best Western Great Northern Inn to participate in the Fish, Wildlife and Parks statewide phone conference on the proposed Milk River land acquisition. More than 100 people filled the Great Northern Inn's Empire Builder conference room this morning, lining the walls and overflowing out the door, listening to and commenting on the controversial Milk River Ranch proposal before the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks...
Marian (Nault) Olson, 75, died Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, at Northern Montana Hospital of natural causes. Her memorial service will be 11 a. m. Thursday at First Lutheran Church. A full obituary will follow. Services have been entrusted to Holland & Bonine Funeral Home...
Grace Lucille (Fouts) DeSaye Grace Lucille (Fouts) DeSaye, 81, of Prescott, Ariz., passed away on Dec. 3, 2012, peacefully at home of natural causes. Grace was born on Jan. 17, 1931, to her parents, Roy and Margaret Fouts, who were homesteading in the northern Montana prairie. They welcomed their daughter in the nearest hospital, which was located in Climax, Saskatchewan, Canada. Grace enjoyed growing up with her older brother Walt on their family farm and attended the small country Petrie School in their rural community. She...
After two hours of public comment, predominantly in opposition , the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission voted 4-1 this morning to approve the purchase of the 3,000-acre Milk River Ranch near the Canadian border with Hill County. The vote sealed the deal, following the state Land Board's approval last month. FWP will manage nearly 3,000 acres, while the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation will take the remaining 1,500 acres, purchased for just over $1 million. Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown State Rep. Wendy...
