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The president has ordered our troops home from Iraq by year's end, but it was President George Bush who first announced this withdrawal date of Dec. 31, 2011. President Obama is enforcing that timetable despite the opposition from some. George W. Bush is the person who ordered us into the war in Iraq and now we need to consider the benefits and costs of that fateful decision. First, Americans remember that we were led to war by falsehoods. Again and again President Bush and his top officials, including Secretary of State Coli...
Laurel — Controlling people's pets is one of the most controversial things a municipal government can do. When someone came before Havre City Council recently and suggested that measures be passed to control unruly dogs, tempers started to flare. But Wednesday night, the council's Ordinance Committee discussed possible legislation, everyone on the committee and in the audience behaved exceptionally well. Everyone put their two cents in. The committee will meet again Nov. 8 to finalize plans. Laurel — The two candidates for Ci...
KALISPEL (AP) — A state judge has denied a request for a temporary restraining order to prevent a student charged with assaulting teammates on a freshman football bus from returning to classes at Glacier High School on Monday. Attorney Sean Frampton, of Whitefish, filed a petition Wednesday on behalf of the parents of three Glacier High students who reported being sexually assaulted last month. District Judge David M. Ortley denied the request for the restraining order Thursday and set a Nov. 14 hearing, Frampton said F...
HELENA — Montana is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stick with a lower court ruling that the state owns the riverbeds where hydroelectric dams sit and can charge power companies rent for their usage. PPL Montana has gone to the nation's high court, asking it to reverse a 2010 ruling by the Montana Supreme Court that declared the riverbeds were state property. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the case in December. Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock argued in a Thursday filing that state title to the r...
HELENA — U.S. Sen. Max Baucus says he will sponsor a bill to expand the wilderness on the Rocky Mountain Front. AP Photos/Susan Walsh, File Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., speaks during a news conference on Jan. 24, 2008, on the economy on Capitol Hill in Washington. Baucus is expected to throw his support behind the proposed Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act, and will propose the measure to Congress that expands wilderness. Conservationists who have been working on the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act tout the proposal as a c...
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors took a shot at the nation's largest and arguably most powerful law enforcement union Friday, slapping criminal charges on 13 members after a lengthy probe into the longtime but under-the-table practice of making parking tickets disappear for friends and family. The charges against the New York Police Department officers, two sergeants and a lieutenant were announced just three days after the embarrassing arrests of five police officers in a separate gun-running sting. AP Photo/David Karp Police o...
The MSU-Northern Lights football team faces the Eastern Oregon University Mountaineers today at 1 p.m. Watch the game streaming live at www.havredailynews.com/sports_live....
The Montana State University-Northern volleyball team was overwhelmed by the Westminster Griffins Friday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. The Griffins swept the Skylights by scores of 25-22, 25-22 and 25-13 in a critical Frontier Conference volleyball match. Hitting was the key as the Griffins outhit 45 kills to 27. Hillary Isleifson led the way for the Skylights with five kills, two blocks, two aces and five digs. Paige Richardson had a match-high eight kills. The Skylights fell to 5-6 in the Frontier Conference and...
Fresh off their season-opening win over Western Wyoming, the Montana State University-Northern Lights wrestling team will step up in competition on Saturday night. The Lights will be in Coeur d'Alene, ID Saturday night to face off against the North Idaho Cardinals in a dual meet. North Idaho is the No. 4 NCJAA program in the country and the Cardinals always give the Lights a tough test on the mat. MSU-N beat Western Wyoming 34-12 on Wednesday night in Havre, but Lights head...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team gets back to action this weekend, and the Lights will certainly be tested. Today in Dillon, Northern plays the first of two nonconference games at the UM-Western Tournament. The Lights will square off against future Frontier Conference rival Dickinson State this afternoon. Northern also plays Warner Pacific University Saturday at 6 p.m. The Lights (2-1) return to action after a week off. Two weeks ago, Northern split...
The Montana State University-Northern football team is hungry for a win each and every week. But they are starving for one in the state of Oregon – because it's been a while. In fact, it's been a long while since the Lights have beaten Eastern Oregon anywhere. But that's what MSU-N is gunning for when the Lights visit No. 25 EOU Saturday afternoon in LaGrande, Ore. Northern comes into Saturday's game riding a losing streak to the Mounties which dates back to September of 2...
Big Sandy's Jesse Bailey *front) fights for yeards during a Class C Six-Man game against North Star earlier this month. The Pioneers host Hysham in the first round of the Six-Man playoffs Saturday at 1 p.m. Chester/J-I's Cody Temple (right) is tackled by a Chinook defender during a Northern C football game earlier this month in Chinook. The Hawks begin their 8-man playoff quest against Scobey Saturday in Chester. It is no exaggeration to say that the 2011 football season has been an exciting one to this point. The Hi-Line...
A week ago today, I had the privilege of seeing my favorite band in the world perform on their 20th Anniversary tour in Calgary. Two nights later, I saw them again in Edmonton. In a year filled with exciting things I've seen, done, written about and covered, it was and will be very hard for me personally to top seeing Pearl Jam twice in one week, on their historical anniversary tour. I get to see great things almost every day and that's quite simply how much that band, their...
Junior Katie Christianson has dabbled in quite a few of the Blue Pony sports while at Havre High. And while she has shown promise in all of them, it seems that she has really found a knack for distance running. Christianson has participated in basketball and track and field the last two seasons, as well as volleyball her freshman year. But after trying her hand in volleyball, Christianson made the move to cross country last fall and has excelled for the Blue Ponies ever since. Last year, in her first season with the HHS...
Havre Daily News/Daniel Horton, file photo Cole Albus rides in the saddle bronc competition at the MSU-Northern Rodeo in Havre, Sept. 17. Albus died in a car crash Tuesday morning. The Hi-Line and Montana State University-Northern lost a cowboy this week. The Phillips County Coroner released the name of the only fatality of an accident early Tuesday morning, 19-year-old Hinsdale native Cole Albus. Albus was driving a 2001 Ford F-350 north along Larb Creek Road, that runs toward Saco from the western tendrils of Fort Peck Rese...
Additional funding has been announced to continue and expand a program to help low-income students, including many on the Hi-Line, prepare for life after high school. The Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs project has been working with Montana school districts since 1998 to help students know what they need to know and do what they need to do to be ready to pursue post-secondary education. The program just announced a new seven-year $28 million grant to continue its services. "This is great news...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Associated Underwater Services Inc. employees of Spokane, Wash., replace the hydraulic cylinder that opens and closes the "guardian gate" on the upstream end of Beaver Creek Reservoir Tuesday afternoon. A second round of deep-lake diving is going on south of Havre, as divers are back in Beaver Creek Reservoir to repair a broken drainage gate. "I think everything should be set by Saturday or Sunday, " Mark Yerger of the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resource and Conservation Service...
M Mark Duane Furr ark Duane Furr, 54, an oil field driller from Shelby, passed away Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011, at his home due to cancer. Visitation is Friday from 11 a. m. to 7 p. m. at Whitted Funeral Chapel in Shelby. Funeral services are 1 p. m. Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011, at First Baptist Church, with burial to follow in the Mountain View Cemetery. Condolences for family members may be sent to www.whittedfuneralchapel.com. Survivors include his wife of 20 years, Shirley of Shelby; children, Ashley (Dan) Kolve and...
HELENA — Firearms dealers in states that regulate medical marijuana can't sell guns or ammunition to registered users of the drug, a policy that marijuana and gun-rights groups say denies Second Amendment rights to individuals who are following state law. It's already illegal under federal law for someone to possess guns if he or she is "an unlawful user of, or addicted to" marijuana or other controlled substances. A Sept. 21 letter from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, issued in response to numerous i...
HELENA — A Republican Montana state legislator said Wednesday he was talking about weapons of the mind in an online discussion with a tea party leader about stocking up on "ammo" to "attack" socialists. Rep. James Knox, of Billings, raised some eyebrows with a recent conversation on Facebook. Knox wrote that he wakes up early with a desire to "attack socialists!!!." The conservative first-term lawmaker goes on to ask a Billings tea party leader for some "ammo." Knox said in an email to The Associated Press on Wednesday t...
HELENA — Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is asking the U.S. government to let his state set up its own universal health care program, taking his rhetorical fight over health care to another level. Brian Schweitzer Like Republicans who object to the federal health care law, the Democratic governor also argues his state should have more flexibility than the law allows. But Schweitzer says he wants to use federal Medicare and Medicaid money to create a state-run system that borrows from the program used in Saskatchewan. He says t...
LOS ANGELES — The last days of Michael Jackson's life were filled with the adulation of fans, a rehearsal performance onlookers described as amazing and intense preparations for his big comeback in London. AP Photo/Nick Ut Michael Jackson fans hold signs outside court Wednesday during the involuntary manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray in Los Angeles. Murray has pleaded not guilty and faces four years in prison and the loss of his medical license if convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death. In good...
Twenty-six cars of a 93-car eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train derailed, spreading lumber and other cargo onto the side of the tracks six miles east of Havre Sunday afternoon. Burlington Northern Santa Fe spokesman Gus Melonas said the cause of the derailment is under investigation. He said one crew member suffered a shoulder injury, and another was taken to Northern Montana Hospital for a non-life-threatening injury. Most of the cars at the front of the train were tipped on their sides, observers said....
BILLINGS (AP) — Two Billings attorneys are asking the Montana Supreme Court to stop workers' compensation investigators from practices that they say violate the privacy rights of workers' comp claimants. The Billings Gazette (http://bit.ly/oOF8ve) reports that Gene Jarussi and Michael Eiselein, along with 10 other attorneys across the state, filed the petition on Aug. 2, contending that Montana State Fund fraud investigators routinely share surveillance videos and other confidential information with doctors of workers' c...
NEW YORK — Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions without power — but an unfazed New York and relief that it was nothing like the nightmare authorities feared. Slowly, the East Coast surveyed the damage, up to $7 billion by one private estimate, and worried of danger still lurking: the possibility of rivers and streams swelling with rainwater and overflowing over the next few days. AP Photo/Brian Scanlon Two men examine a toppled tel...
