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BILLINGS — Montana's state schools superintendent race was headed for an expected recount as incumbent Democrat Denise Juneau held on to a slim lead of about one-third of 1 percent Friday with most votes tallied. Republican Sandy Welch was preparing to ask for a recount that would span all 56 Montana counties. The prospects for a recount grew increasingly likely as late votes out of Yellowstone County finally trickled in over the last few days. Welch can't submit her request until after the vote is canvassed and certified ...
WASHINGTON — The resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus has brought a sudden and unexpected end to the public career of a four-star general who led U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and was thought to be a potential candidate for president. Petraeus admitted to an extramarital affair in tendering his resignation, which President Barack Obama accepted Friday. AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File Gen. David Petraeus testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Petraeus, the r...
First Quarter: Big Sandy scores on a Bailey TD run, and a Leader Pick-Six. Pioneers lead 13-0. Second Quarter: Bailey scores with three minutes to go. Big Sandy leads Valier 19-16 at halftime. Third Quarter: Bailey's fourth TD gives Big Sandy 26-24 lead. Fourth Quarter: Lackner answers Valier's one score with a 78-yard kickoff return. Both defenses come up big. Regulation ends tied at 32-32. OT: Big Sandy's Trevor Lackner throws a 15-yard TD to Jessey Bailey on fourth down for the win....
When the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team said it wasn't done after the end of last weekend, the Skylights weren't kidding. On Saturday morning at the Frontier Conference tournament in Butte, the Skylights stunned the top-seeded and four-time defending champion Lewis-Clark State Warriors 3-1 in the conference semifinals. The win pushes Northern into the Frontier title match later today against either Rocky Mountain College or Carroll. Northern defeated the Warriors by scores of 25-22, 25-20, 19-25 and 25-23....
BOZEMAN — A Montana wildlife company said Saturday that it will defy the state's request that it kill a captive brown bear involved in the fatal mauling of an animal trainer. Demetri Price, head trainer for Animals of Montana, Inc. near Bozeman, said Saturday the company would challenge any attempt to kill the bear nicknamed Yosemite. AP Photo/Animals of Montana, Demetri Price This undated image provided by Animals of Montana shows one of two bears that mauled and killed keeper, Benjamin Cloutier, near the company's f...
Big Sandy's Jessey Bailey celebrates the game-winning touchdown against Valier Saturday in Big Sandy. The Big Sandy Pioneers' agonizing wait for a chance at a Six-Man state championship is finally over. After back-to-back semifinal losses, in 2010 and 2011, Trevor Lackner's 15-yard touchdown pass to Jessey Bailey in overtime propelled the Pioneers to a 38-32 win over Northern C rival Valier, and into the Six-Man state championship game. The Pioneers will play Hot Springs for the 2012 Six-Man championship. On a day when...
WASHINGTON — The scandal that brought down CIA Director David Petraeus started with harassing emails sent by his biographer and paramour, Paula Broadwell, to another woman, and eventually led the FBI to discover the affair, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Saturday. Petraeus quit Friday after acknowledging an extramarital relationship. The official said the FBI investigation began several months ago with a complaint against Broadwell, a 40-year-old graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and an Army Reserve o...
A long season and a very long day came to a difficult end for the Montana State University-Northern football team. The Lights left Havre this morning to play their season finale with Rocky Mountain College under the lights in Billings, and the Battlin' Bears got the better of the deal, beating Northern 32-22 at Daylis Stadium. Five turnovers did and several special teams miscuses did the Lights in, though they led 16-14 at halftime. Rocky jumped out to a quick 14-0 lead, but the Lights battled back with two Derek Lear...
The Montana State University-Northern volleyball team didn't win the Frontier Conference championship and the Skylights won't be going to the NAIA national tournament next week. But few people outside of Havre expected any of that out of the Skylights when the season began back in August. Yet, Northern got so close to doing both as the Skylights lost to Carroll 3-2 in the Frontier championship match Saturday night in Butte. The Saints defeated the Skylights by scores of 25-15, 22-25, 17-25, 25-21 and and 17-15. It was a...
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Headed to prison for the rest of his life, Jerry Sandusky leaves behind a trail of human and legal wreckage that could take years to clear away. Victims face a lifetime of healing. Penn State is laboring under severe NCAA penalties. And at least four civil lawsuits have been filed against a university shamed by scandal, with more likely to come. AP Photo/Matt Rourke Former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, center, is taken from the Centre County Courthouse by Centre C...
In their first eastern Montana debate Tuesday, gubernatorial candidates Rick Hill and Steve Bullock fielded questions on natural resource development while hammering home their favorite campaign themes. Hill, a former congressman and the Republican candidate, said improving the business climate is the key in getting more and better paying jobs. He told the audience at Montana State University Billings that he would put to voters a proposal to cap money going into the coal trust and use it instead to pay for infrastructure...
Hot scores continued last week as Ryan Mapes rolled the first 300 game of the 2012-13 season. Bowling for the Oxford Bar and shooting on lanes 5 and 6, he sandwiched the 300 game in between 204 and 194 for a nice 698 and league high series last week. Congratulations Ryan. Several people have been inquiring about Junior U.S.B.C. and when does it start. News was received last night that it will start on Sunday, October 28th at 1:30. All are asked to show up at least one half hour before to fill out cards. Bumper bowling will...
So snow has fallen, well at least some places. The leaves are falling at an alarming rate and it's chilly enough in the mornings that I like to let my car run for a few minutes. After an extended and scorching hot summer, I guess football weather has finally arrived. And in just a little over a month, the Montana Grizzlies and the Montana State Bobcats will once again meet in the annual Brawl of the Wild, which seems to captivate the Treasure State for a few hours on a...
Blue Pony senior clears her mind when she's racing and chasing down competitors Havre High's Trisha Kinsella (right) has been one of the top Blue Pony cross country runners the last few seasons and is one of the leaders of a great HHS team in 2012. Kinsella and the Ponies host the Central A Divisional Saturday morning in Havre. The Havre High girls cross country team has been outstanding this season. And after claiming the Central A conference title last season, as well as finishing as the No. 3 Class A team in the state,...
HELENA — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Montana's campaign donation limits, telling the federal judge who overturned it to outline his full reasoning so the panel can review the case. The court intervened late Tuesday less than a week after the judge's decision opened the door to unlimited money in state elections — during the height of election season. Conservative groups emboldened by the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision have made Montana the center of the fight over many campaign fin...
Marion L. Kurtz Fyall Marion L. Kurtz Fyall passed away peacefully in her Edmonds home October 6, 2012. Marion was born June 14, 1923, in Havre, Mont. to parents Frank and Alice Dunn Kurtz. She grew up on the family homestead and wheat farm just south of Gildford, Montana with brother, Francis Kurtz (deceased) and sister, Grace Nordrum of Havre. Marion met her husband, Andrew Fyall, first as her nursing patient, and shortly thereafter became his beautiful bride of 46 years. They were married March 23, 1947, and remain beloved...
While discussing an expansion of course offerings for Havre High School students to also get college credit through Montana State University-Northern, Trustee Norm Proctor had a few questions. During Tuesday's night's Board of Trustees meeting, Proctor wondered whether it was legal for one of the new courses offered, Introduction to Sociology, to be taught by fellow Trustee Curtis Smeby. "I know the concept is great, " Proctor said. "I just wanted to avoid ending up in deep water. " Proctor said he remembered when Judy...
Havre High School students looking to get a leg up on college courses could have a few more options soon. At Tuesday night's Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees meeting, Havre High School Principal Craig Mueller and Montana State University-Northern's Dean of Extended University Randy Bachmeier explained a plan to more than double the Northern courses available to students, from three to seven. The new courses would include Theatre Workshop 105, Fundamentals of Speech, Introduction to Psychology and Introduction to...
Friday people can eat great pizza, buy delicious desserts and help fund the fight against breast cancer. Nalivka's Pizza Kitchen will take part in "Slice of Hope, " a program to aid the Karen Mullen Breast Cancer Foundation, a national charity based in Seattle. "There are few families that haven't been touched by breast cancer, " said Gay Nalivka. "This is something that is near and dear to our hearts, " said, explaining that family and friends have been affected by the disease. That is what prompted them to join the...
Kris Hansen Republican candidate for House District 33 Born in Peoria, Illinois, 1969 Education: Graduated from Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School, 1988; Graduated from Augustana College with a Bachelor of Arts in political science, public administration, 1992; received Juris Doctorate from The John Marshall Law School, 2002 Military service: Montana Army National Guard, 2004-2011, Judge Advocate; Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2007-08 Work experience: Law clerk to Federal Bankruptcy Judge Bruce Black; Law clerk to Montana...
The tone of the 2012 election scene has hit a new low throughout much of the United States. Maybe that has to do with the introduction of so much negative television commercials because of the Citizens United decision. John Kelleher Maybe it has been prompted by the number of divisive issues facing voters this year. Or perhaps it is just a growing incivility and the growing belief that if you disagree with someone, the other person must be evil. It isn't the first time that the political discourse has taken a turn for the...
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday (times in EDT): 1. CHICAGO TEACHERS ON STRIKE FOR FIRST TIME IN 25 YEARS Contract talks with the school district fail over issues including compensation, health benefits and teacher evaluations. 2. FEDS END COSTLY PROGRAM IN ARIZONA One-way plane tickets home for Mexicans caught entering the country illegally was an experiment that cost American taxpayers nearly $100 million over seven years. 3. WHAT A WATCHDOG FOUND OUT AB...
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday (times in EDT): 1. CHICAGO TEACHERS ON STRIKE FOR FIRST TIME IN 25 YEARS Contract talks with the school district fail over issues including compensation, health benefits and teacher evaluations. 2. FEDS END COSTLY PROGRAM IN ARIZONA One-way plane tickets home for Mexicans caught entering the country illegally was an experiment that cost American taxpayers nearly $100 million over seven years. 3. WHAT A WATCHDOG FOUND OUT AB...
Montana State University-Northern in Havre will be represented at Miles Community College in Miles City Wednesday, talking about how the Montana education system can help with workforce development and other issues with the population and economic boom in eastern and northeastern Montana. Tony Preite, director of university outreach and economic development at Northern — who U. S. Sen. Max Baucus appointed as multi-agency rural development coordinator for energy-impacted communities — said this morning that in talking to peo...
Harlem businessman and city council member Charlie Kulbeck is scheduled to be sworn in Tuesday at 9:30 a. m. as a Blaine County commissioner, finishing the term of Democrat Vic Miller, who died from complications of diabetes on Aug. 18. "(I'm) excited, " Kulbeck said this morning. "I know it's going to be an adventure, and I've got a lot to learn, but I hope to be able to prove to people that I'll be able to do the job in the future. " Kulbeck also will be on the November ballot in this fall's election, in which Miller was...
