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Jeanne Marie Kennedy Jeanne Marie Kennedy, 70, of Centerville, S.D., died Sept. 12, 2011, at Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Viborg following a courageous battle with ALS. Memorial services will be held 2 p. m. Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011, at Beresford Zion United Methodist Church for family and friends to gather and celebrate Jeanne's life. Jeanne was born Sept. 4, 1941 in Pittsburgh, Pa., to parents Ed and Ruth Knecht. After attending school, Jeanne spent the next 20 years in Montana, where she raised her three children, David (... Full story
GREAT FALLS (AP) — The U.S. attorney's office says the former chairman of the Chippewa Cree tribal business council has been sentenced to more than a year in prison and ordered to pay nearly $59,000 in restitution for using a tribal credit card for personal use. Raymond 'Jake' Parker Raymond "Jake" Parker Jr., was sentenced Monday in Great Falls to 16 months in prison after pleading guilty in May to theft from an Indian tribal organization. He will be on supervised release for three years after he finishes his prison term. P...
HELENA (AP) — Six local governments have filed a lawsuit against Gov. Brian Schweitzer over his line-item vetoes of money for their local bridge and water projects, which the governor said were done either because lawmakers did not support the spending or a lack of need. Carbon, Fergus, Madison and Sweet Grass counties, the city of Roundup and the town of Sheridan filed the lawsuit in District Court in Helena last week. They also named Commerce Director Dore Schwinden and the state of Montana, according to the Lee N...
BILLINGS — A federal judge threw out a lawsuit claiming federal agents illegally raided Montana's Custer Battlefield Museum during an investigation into the alleged sale of fraudulent artifacts and eagle feathers. The judgment was filed in U.S. District Court in favor of two dozen federal agents who participated in the raids in 2005 and 2008. Judge Richard Cebull dismissed as frivolous claims by museum director Christopher Kortlander that the raids were illegal and the agents had violated his constitutional rights. The i...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush have designated public land as national monuments, using a federal law to protect from development sites judged to have natural, historical or scientific significance. Now some House Republicans, saying the 105-year-old law has been misused, have introduced bills to limit or block the president's ability to make such designations without approval from Congress. GOP Rep. Denny Rehberg of Montana compared the 1906 Antiquities Act to the mythical sword of Dam...
BOZEMAN (AP) — A tiny actor traded his Darth Vader costume for a Montana State football uniform, but he still used "The Force" to light up the new scoreboard at Bobcat Stadium. Montana State University held a dedication ceremony Friday night for the new $10 million stadium expansion, an effort that added 5,200 seats and bowled in the southern end of the stadium. AP Photo/Montana State University, Kelly Gorham In this photo provided by Montana State University, Max Page helps introduce a new scoreboard at Bobcat Stadium. P...
TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian court Tuesday set bail of $500,000 each for two American men arrested more than two years ago and convicted on spy-related charges, clearing the way for their release a year after a similar bail-for-freedom arrangement for the third member of the group, their defense attorney said. Lawyer Masoud Shafiei said the court would begin the process to free Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal after payment of the bail, which must be arranged through third parties because of U.S. economic sanctions on Iran. But t... Full story
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Key moments in Monday night's GOP presidential debate: Big moment: To open the debate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney immediately went after each other on Social Security — with Perry defending his inflammatory language and Romney accusing Perry of scaring seniors. "It has been called a Ponzi scheme by many people long before me," Perry said. The Texas governor has also called the social safety net a "monstrous lie." AP Photo/Chris O'Meara Republican presidential can...
Two more golf league champions were crowned last week, and just in time. Summer has decided to hang on and the golfing weather could have been better the last seven days. But alas, all good things must come to an end, and this will be the final golf column of 2011. Hopefully, 2012 will yield just as great a golf season as the last four months have been. The Beaver Creek Golf Course men's league finished its playoffs last Thursday with Waddell & Reed beating PJ's for the men's...
For the second straight week, a Montana State University-Northern football player has earned Frontier Conference honors. MSU-Northern sophomore Tanner Varner was named the Frontier Conference Defensive Player of the Week on Monday. Varner is a 5-foot-10, 195-pound defensive back, from Baker. In Northern's 23-12 win over Montana Tech, Varner recorded eight solo tackles, one tackle for loss, one quarterback sack, one assisted tackle, one interception and one forced fumble. He... Full story
Things are going well for the Montana State University-Lights right now. After beating Montana Tech 23-12 Saturday in Butte, the Lights are back in the NAIA Top 25 for the first time since the 2009 Coaches Preseason Poll. In the first regular season NAIA Coaches Poll released Monday night, the Lights moved up to No. 23. Northern is off to a 2-0 start and the Lights are one of four Frontier Conference teams ranked in the NAIA Top 25. Carroll College dropped from the top spot... Full story
Havre High's Chance Pitkanen reaches in the hole to retrieve his ball after hitting a hole-in-one at Saturday's Lewistown Invitational in Lewistown. It was Pitkanen's first career ace. The Blue Pony golf teams play at home this weekend when they host the Havre Invitational. The Havre High golf teams have just one more week of golf before the 2011 postseason begins. And it will be a busy one. Havre started a stretch of four tournaments in seven days last Saturday at the...
Havre Middle School seventh grader Isaac Warp runs with the ball during the HMS football jamboree Saturday in Havre. With another weekend of football in the books, the Hi-Line saw another weekend filled with its share of ups and downs for local teams. The Northern C 8-Man Chinook Sugarbeeters stayed on pace to be the most dominating team in the Class C on Friday. The No. 1 Beeters hosted Cascade and handed another opponent a crushing loss, this team defeating Cascade 68-14. The Beeters opened strong with a 34-point first...
Members of the Hays-Lodge Pole volleyball team play in a recent match. After two weeks of nonconference and preseason matches, the high school volleyball season really got going this weekend on the Hi-Line. Things started with a bang on Friday night with a pair of rivalry matches. In Chester, the Chester/J-I Hawks outlasted the Big Sandy Pioneers in a five-set thriller. The Hawks beat the Pioneers by scores of 23-25, 25-12, 20-25, 25-22 and 15-2 in what was a back and forth...
The Hill County Park Board may set policy to give hardship allowances to ranchers with grazing allotments on Beaver Creek Park. County Commissioner Kathy Bessette said during Monday's board meeting that she would bring the language proposed by the board to County Attorney Gina Dahl today for her review. "She's going to have to defend this if somebody says you guys are not playing fair, " Bessette said. The board, during its August meeting, extensively discusssed the issue and drafted a tentative proposal. Local ranchers...
The superintendent of Hill County's major park said the fall season has started, including moving cattle onto the park, which has led to two car-cow collisions in the first week. "Hopefully that slows down, " Superintendent Chad Edgar said during the monthly meeting of the Hill County Park Board Monday evening. He said the cattle moving into the park — about 1,200 head are on so far, with a total of about 3,500 scheduled to move in during the grazing season — has gone well so far, aside from the crashes. He said signs hav...
AMES, Iowa — The 2012 Republican presidential race lurched into a new phase Saturday as Iowans weighed in for the first time on their expanding field of presidential hopefuls, picking Michele Bachmann as their top choice for the GOP nomination. Halfway across the country latecomer Texas Gov. Rick Perry formally entered the race, declaring: "America is not broken. Washington, D.C. is broken." Together, the events were certain to reshuffle the race to face President Barack Obama. Exactly how was anybody's guess, as the candidat...
BOISE, Idaho — Environmentalists have asked a federal appeals court for an emergency injunction to halt wolf hunts scheduled to start in a few weeks in Idaho and Montana. The request filed by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and other groups with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was made public Saturday. The groups want the hunts canceled until the court issues a decision in an appeal filed Monday challenging a federal judge's ruling allowing the hunts to go forward. "We think if we don't get an injunction, the wolf p...
BILLINGS (AP) — Montana wheat farmers planted 600,000 fewer acres this spring than initially predicted, federal officials say. The U.S. Department of Agriculture in a report released Thursday said the state's wheat farmers are now expected to produce about 179.7 million bushels of wheat. That's about 27 million fewer bushels than predicted in last month's forecast, and about 35.7 million fewer bushels than the state produced last year. The Billings Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/rrr5iT) that heavy rains last spring turned f...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Native Americans aren't getting the health care they need because services for them are vastly underfunded, the director of the federal Indian Health Service said Friday. Yvette Roubideaux told a gathering of American Indian doctors in Portland that her agency is still underfunded despite significant gains made in recent years. "It's really clear that the health disparities, the lack of health care providers, the lack of updated facilities, the delays in providing care — all of those seem to fun...
Max Moore Max S. Moore, 97, a Joplin farmer who was a longtime member of the Joplin Masons and the Havre Elks and Eagles, died Tuesday, Aug. 9, at the Chester Nursing Home. He was cremated per his request by the Rockman Funeral Chapel of Chester. A family graveside service was held Saturday, Aug. 13, at Joplin Cemetery. Max is survived by three children, Donald Moore of Juniata, Neb., Kay Becker of Billings, and Douglas Moore of Joplin; eight grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and two brothers. He was preceded in death...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities said they have confirmed at least three deaths after a stage collapsed Saturday night during a storm at the Indiana State Fair, where the country group Sugarland was set to perform. About two dozen people were reported injured in the incident at the fairgrounds in Indianapolis. Strong winds caused the stage rigging for the outdoor concert to collapse, trapping and injuring concert-goers shortly before 9 p.m. No one was performing at the time. The opening act had finished, and the crowd was w...
Editor: Sometimes one cannot keep silent. Some people may be unhappy with the representation in our state Legislature by Kris Hansen and Wendy Warburton. I, for one, believe they are doing an excellent job for Montana. While Hansen and Warburton campaigned, they proclaimed their pro-life and family-value stands, along with other issues. Voters knew this, and that is the reason Hansen and Warburton are in our state Legislature. Thank you Kris Hansen and Wendy Warburton. You are doing an awesome job for Montana people. Alma...
Fred Frederick Fred A. Frederick, 84, died of natural causes, at Sweet Memorial Nursing Home, with family and friends from the home in attendance, on July 11, 2011. A memorial service honoring his life will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, July 15, 2011, at the Messiah Lutheran Church, with Pastor Michael O'Hearn officiating. A private family interment will be held. A fellowship will be held at the church immediately after the service. Arrangements and services were entrusted to Holland & Bonine Funeral Home He was born Sept. 1,...
Courtesy photo/Misty Swenson An interior view of the trailer home that exploded this morning in the Hacienda Trailer Court at 1945 2nd Street Northeast, in Havre. Judy Hagenau got off of work at 10 a. m. today and was headed to her home in the Hacienda Trailer Park on Havre's east side, with her husband Mark. When they got home their home smelled very strongly of natural gas. Minutes later, while they were walking around inside, it exploded. "I was blown across the trailer, " Mark said. "It pretty much picked up the trailer a...
