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Correction: The original version of this story listed an incorrect time of the crash. The Montana Highway Patrol reported this morning that a Alan Bemis of Chinook, 40, died as the result of injuries sustained in a one-vehicle rollover south of Chinook. The report said that Bemis was dead on arrival. According to the report, Bemis was driving northbound on Montana State Highway 240 at 9:35 p. m. when the 1996 Dodge truck he was driving failed to negotiate a right-hand turn and crossed the center line into the southbound...
On Dec. 1, 2011, our dear brother and uncle, Ford Henry Johnson, 81, passed away at Northern Montana Hospital, due to natural causes. A memorial service will be held 1 p. m. Friday June 22, 2012, at 5th Avenue Christian Church. Burial will follow at the Highland Cemetery. Services and arrangements have been entrusted to Holland & Bonine Funeral Home....
Anthony "Tony" Teskey, 57, a longtime Williston, N.D., resident, passed away Wednesday evening, June 20, 2012, at his home. His funeral will be celebrated Tuesday afternoon, June 26, 2012, at 2 p. m. at the Everson Memorial Chapel in Williston. The Rev. Steve Anderson will officiate, and interment will follow at a later date in the Conrad Memorial Cemetery, Kalispell. A complete obituary will follow. Friends may visit www.eversonfh.com to share remembrances of Tony or leave condolences with the family. Friends may also call...
Leroy V. Kudrna Leroy Victor Kudrna, 72, died after a courageous battle with lung cancer, on Monday, June 18, 2012, at RiverStone Hospice Center in Billings, Mont. Leroy Victor Kudrna was born on Oct. 18, 1939, in Dickinson, N.D., the oldest son of Victor H. and Dorothy M. (Semerad) Kudrna. He was raised on the family farm southeast of South Heart, where he attended school in South Heart, graduating as valedictorian as well as class president, in the Class of 1957. Upon graduation, Leroy attended and graduated from Northwest...
PHILADELPHIA — A Roman Catholic church official was convicted Friday of child endangerment but acquitted of conspiracy in a groundbreaking clergy-abuse trial, becoming the first U.S. church official convicted of a crime for how he handled abuse claims. Monsignor William Lynn helped the archdiocese keep predators in ministry, and the public in the dark, by telling parishes their priest was being removed for health reasons and then sending the men to unsuspecting churches, prosecutors said. AP Photo/Brynn Anderson Monsignor Wil...
I cut my hair last weekend and, since the moment I put the scissors down, every time I've looked at or gotten distracted by my hair, I've thought this phrase first: "What the ... aaargh!" I spent 20 minutes this morning fixing my hair. I had a PTSD flashback to junior high days and fully expected to burn my forehead with the curling iron, break out in zits, lose my breasts and hear my mom yelling, "You're gonna be late for the bus — again!" — 20 minutes. Tuh-wen-tee min...
Laurel — Havre Police Detective Sgt. Jason Barkus was honored with Montana's Outstanding Victim Advocate Award last week for his conscientious efforts in behalf of victims of sexual and domestic abuse. He was nominated by the people at the domestic violence unit of District IV Human Resources Development Council. The effort against domestic violence is making some headway. Some abusers seem to be getting the message that society won't tolerate violence in homes. There is an awful lot yet to be done, but if people like the H...
Editor: As an Amtrak traveler, I like to get the local newspaper at train stations to learn more about the towns and states I visit. On Monday, I purchased a Havre Daily News at the Havre station. On page A2, I found an AP story that provides a very troubling view of the recent Montana Republican Convention held in Missoula. Parked right outside the GOP Convention at Missoula's Hilton Garden Inn was a bullet-riddled "Obama Outhouse," labeled "Obama Presidential Library," which contained a false birth certificate and...
KEENE, N.H. — The presidential campaign debate over Republican Mitt Romney's tenure at a private equity firm is going down the drain. Vice President Joe Biden argued Tuesday that Romney's experience doesn't make him any more qualified to be president than it does to make him a plumber. AP Photo/Jim Cole Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Keene State College , Tuesday, in Keene, N.H. "That doesn't mean that private equity guys are bad guys — they're not," Biden said at New Hampshire's Keene State College. "But that no mor...
Northern Football Camp The coaching staff of the MSU-Northern football team will be running a day camp for kids entering grades K-8 on June 4-6 at the Northern practice fields. The first session, from 9-11:30 a.m. will be for grades K-4 and the second session from 1-3:30 p.m. will be for grades 5-8. Cost for the camp is $60 per camper, which includes T-shirt, refreshments and prizes. For more information, call Kyle Samson at 431-3686 or Jake Eldridge at 945-1108. Lights Basketball Camps The Montana State University-Northern...
It was just two short years ago that the Chinook girls tennis team captured its first state championship in tennis. This past week in Missoula, the Sugarbeeters nearly pulled it off again. Chinook finished second by one point at last week's Class B-C state tennis tournament in Missoula. The Beeters scored 27 points, one behind state champion Conrad. Fairfield was a close third with 26 points. Three players earned big points for the Beeters. Singles player Katie Diemert, who...
Havre's Mark Vukasin throws out a runner from third base during the first game of an American Legion doubleheader Sunday at Legion Field. The North Stars dropped a pair of Northern District games to the Great falls Electrics. One week after playing a wild doubleheader against the rival Great Falls Electrics on the road, the Havre North Stars American Legion baseball team played two more crazy games against one of their biggest rivals. On Sunday afternoon at Legion Field in...
A Havre man will spend most of two years in state custody, followed by three on probation, for robbing a Havre casino in October 2010, with at least the start of the two years in the Montana State Prison as he awaits progress in another felony case. Merrill Gray, 34, pleaded for leniency in state District Court in Havre, saying he has realized that "before all of this transpired" that he had taken his life and the lives and love of his family for granted, and made an apology, especially to his son, who was not at the...
Monday's Havre City Council meeting brought a fairly significant shift to city operations, a changing of the guard of municipal finances, the transitioning of the clerk. New Finance Director Doug Kaercher was sworn in before current director Lowell Swenson steps out of the position he's held for more than 20 years next week. Swenson was sworn in back in 1990, while his replacement, Kaercher, was serving on City Council. Swenson's last day is Thursday, May 31. Mayor Tim Solomon announced a get-together in the basement of City...
Having heard Havre City Council member Rick Dow's not guilty plea last week, City Judge Margaret Hencz has stepped aside for all remaining court activity on the case. Hencz requested Justice of the Peace Audrey Barger handle that case to avoid possible conflicts associated with presiding over a case involving another city employee. "The City Council is the fiscal oversight for the court, and I just thought that would have the appearance of impropriety, " Hencz said. Dow has an omnibus hearing scheduled one month from today...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson, file photo Lush trees surround the front entrance of Donaldson Hall at Montana State University-Northern in this July 2008 photo. Staff members of the local community health center will have to wait at least a month to present their case to the state Board of Regents of Higher Education on taking over a historic Havre building to renovate it and turn it into a clinic. Bullhook Community Health Center's proposal to lease, renovate and repair, and use Donaldson Hall at Montana State...
Edward (Eddy) J Renna lost his short battle with cancer and died May 4 in Chandler, Ariz., at the age of 81. Edward was born in the Bronx, N.Y., to Edward and Frances (Hyde) Renna. on Nov. 10, 1930, the youngest of five children. Edward Renna He received a Catholic education. As a boy he met Babe Ruth and made money racking balls at a pool hall. In his younger days, he was quite a pool shark. In 1948 he joined the U.S. Air Force. He met Betty Lou Rishoff, and they were married in 1950. After being discharged, he resumed his...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran claimed Sunday that it had reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by its armed forces last year and has begun building a copy. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the aerospace division of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, related what he said were details of the aircraft's operational history to prove his claim that Tehran's military experts had extracted data from the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel captured in December in eastern Iran, state television reported. Among the drone's past missions, he s...
HELENA — The Justice Department has broken its long silence about last year's crackdown on medical marijuana operations in Montana, with U.S. Attorney Michael Cotter saying more than two dozen people have been indicted so far and that prosecutions will continue. The statement released by the U.S. Attorney's Office is the agency's first since a single press release was sent the day after the March 14, 2011, raids on 26 homes, offices and businesses that effectively stymied the state's once-booming medical pot trade. Then, f...
Sandra Jean Monteau-Murie, 64, died Sunday morning, April 22, 2012, at her home in Rocky Boy due to cancer. Her wake service began Sunday and will continue through Monday. Her funeral service will be 9 a.m. Monday, April 23, at the Murie family residence. Burial will follow at Rocky Boy Cemetery. Services and arrangements have been entrusted to Holland & Bonine Funeral Home. Sandra Jean Monteau-Murie Sandra was born April 6, 1948, in Fort Belknap, Mont., to James and Florence (Collins) Monteau. She was raised in Rocky Boy...
PARIS (AP) — Socialist Francois Hollande and conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy are heading for a runoff election in their race for France's presidency, according to partial official results in a vote that could alter the European political and economic landscape. French voters defied expectations and handed a surprisingly strong third-place showing to far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who has run on an anti-immigrant platform aimed largely at Muslims. That could boost her influence on the French political scene, hand h...
A pair of local football players have earned a prestigious honor for the 2011-12 school year. An elite list of college and high school football players in Montana were named National Football Foundation Scholar Athletes for 2012 for the Montana Chapter. The select group includes North Star standout Jordy Donoven and Montana State University-Northern junior offensive lineman Brock Hyder. Donoven, a 6-0, 180-pound senior, who started for the Knights for four years, played...
It is tough to compete in a meet as tough as the Gallatin Valley Invitational in Belgrade, when you are low on numbers, and without some of your top athletes. But despite the District Music Festival in Havre keeping the majority of the Havre High boys and girls track teams at home, the Blue Ponies still had a handful of top performers. The Ponies competed in Belgrade on Saturday with just 21 athletes, the total number down from their typical 50-plus. But up against a field of tough competition, both Pony squads were still...
Havre's Sydne Huston (left) tires to tag out a Belgrade base runner during a Central A Conference fastpitch doubleheader Friday afternoon at the Sixth Avenue Memorial Field. Havre's Davee McLeod looks to throw a Belgrade runner out during Friday's Central A doubleheader in Havre. Going into the weekend, the Havre High softball team knew the conference rival Belgrade Panthers have emerged as one of the top teams in the state. And after the Panthers took advantage of several Blue Pony mistakes, HHS saw exactly how the Panthers...
Mid-April may be a bit early for district play, but the Havre North Stars American Legion baseball club appeared ready Sunday afternoon. On a warm and sunny day in Great Falls, the North Stars opened Northern District play with a pair of convincing wins over the Great Falls Stallions. Havre opened the doubleheader with a 10-3 victory in game one, then smashed the Stallions 19-8 in the nightcap. Brandon Smith earned a complete-game victory on the mound for the North Stars by...
