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The annual Montana Coaches Association clinic will get under way on this morning in Great Falls, and several area coaches, or coaches with ties to Havre and the Hi-Line, will be speaking at the prestigious event. One of those coaches is current Montana State University-Northern men's basketball coach Shawn Huse. Huse will be part of a special group of basketball clinicians that also includes former Purdue great Gene Keady and former NCAA and NBA coach Kelvin Sampson. Huse has...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Montana State University-Northern offensive lineman Brock Hyder (left) and running back Stephen Silva celebrate a touchdown during a Frontier Conference football game last fall in Havre. Hyder and his Lights' offensive line mates will be one of the most formidable fronts in the conference this season. For a look at the top returning wide receivers and tight ends in the Frontier, see Friday's Havre Daily News. It's no secret that the success of an...
Representatives of some groups in Montana have praised Tuesday's passage of the bill raising the nation's debt ceiling, averting an expected shortfall that would have led to the nation not being able to pay all of its bills, including the potential to cut into Social Security checks. AARP Montana State Director Bob Bartholomew said AARP has been focused on ensuring that people who have paid into Social Security and Medicare over the years continued to receive their benefits. "AARP Montana is pleased that members of Congress...
A Havre woman is out on bail facing felony charges in state District Court after a woman said she was beaten and robbed in a Havre motel. The Hill County attorney charged Fidelia M. Antelope-Overberg, born in 1975, with two felony counts of assault with a weapon and felony counts of robbery and theft. Antelope-Overberg was arrested the morning of July 17 after a woman reported the defendant had assaulted her and taken some $60-$80 in cash as well as the keys to the woman's vehicle. The woman, who called police at 8:17 a. m.,...
A New Jersey man who was in the area working with a carnival is being held in the county jail on $75,000 bond while awaiting a hearing on a charge of rape accused of having sex with an underage girl in Havre. The Hill County attorney's office charged Joshua Nessederine, born in 1989, with a felony count of sexual intercourse without consent after he was accused of having sex with an unwilling 15-year-old. According to the charging document, a woman reported on July 24 that an assault had occurred. The woman told a Havre...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson A Sletten Construction Companies employee helps install a new window on the top floor of the Hill County Courthouse Tuesday afternoon. Over the next couple of months, 103 windows at the Hill County Courthouse are being replaced with energy-efficient ones. Sletten Construction Companies out of Great Falls began working on the project about two weeks ago, but Hill County Commissioner Kathy Bessette said the work for the grant began "a long time ago." Hill County Deputy Clerk and Recorder Lois Ann...
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, approaches the podium Tuesday for a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington after the Senate voted to pass debt legislation. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., is at left, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., is third from left. WASHINGTON — The nation's bills are being paid and Congress has bolted the hothouse of Washington, one debt limit deadline beaten and another ahead for a dozen yet-to-be-named lawmakers. They might want to hold off making Thanksgiving a...
AP Photo/Matt Gouras Barry Beach sits during his hearing Tuesday in Lewistown, where witnesses testified a gang of girls was actually responsible for the 1979 murder for which Beach was convicted. LEWISTOWN — A judge said Tuesday he will weigh the testimony of previously unheard witnesses who could help implicate a gang of girls in the 1979 beating death of a Poplar teenager — and not the man serving a 100-year sentence for the crime. Barry Beach long ago confessed to killing Kim Nees, describing how he forcibly tried to kis...
Vicki Dea Toth, 64, of Havre, died peacefully July 1, 2011, at Northern Montana Hospital in Havre, Mont., of natural causes. A graveside service will be conducted 2 p.m. Friday, July 8, 2011, at Highland Cemetery of Havre, with Ila McClenahan officiating. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home of Havre has been entrusted with services. ? Vicki is preceded in death by her parents, Alan and Dorothy Dea; and her husband Martin P. Toth. She is survived by her son, Joseph (Lisa) Toth of Havre, Mont.; Daughter Brandi (Erik) Lee of...
AP Photo/Matthew Brown ExxonMobil contractors clean up oil along the banks of the Yellowstone River in Billings Sunday. A company pipeline about 20 miles upriver near Laurel, Mont., ruptured and spilled an estimated 1,000 barrels of crude into the Yellowstone on Saturday. LAUREL — Authorities struggled Sunday to gauge the environmental and crop damage from tens of thousands of gallons of oil that spilled into the legendary Yellowstone River, as Montana's governor criticized Exxon Mobil for downplaying the possible scope of th...
SEATTLE — The wolves came within howling distance of the house, but were gone by the time Kim Jacobs found dead lambs on her family's eastern Oregon ranch that spring morning. While many conservationists welcome the return of gray wolves into the Pacific Northwest, Jacobs wants to shoot them if they harm her livestock. "A lot of (people) can't wrap their mind around what wolves are capable of," said the fourth-generation rancher from Baker City, Ore., whose family lost at least 26 sheep to wolves in 2009. AP Photo/Elaine T...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Casey Anthony briefly wept Sunday as prosecutors told jurors during closing arguments that she murdered her 2-year-old daughter Caylee to reclaim the carefree life she had before the girl was born. Prosecutors portrayed Anthony as a young mother who killed her daughter because she got in the way of her love life. "Something needed to be sacrificed, that something was either the life she wanted or the life thrust upon her. She chose to sacrifice her child," prosecutor Jeff Ashton said during his 9...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Gus, a setter-mix, chases a tennis ball in a game of fetch during the annual The Bark in the Park Fourth of July celebration at Doggy Day Care & Pet Resort Friday afternoon....
WASHINGTON — American employers hired only 54,000 new workers in May, the fewest in eight months, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent. The Labor Department report offered startling evidence that the U.S. economy is slowing, hampered by high gas prices and natural disasters in Japan that have hurt U.S. manufacturers. AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes Job seekers Adriana Miunoz, 20, second from left, and Isha Hawkins 19, register for jobs at the 10th annual Skid Row Career Fair held at the Los Angeles Mission downtown Los An...
Map by Caleb Hutchins Three areas of concerns with North Havre sewer systems are the lift station in RSID 11 that pumps water through a force main across the Milk River, and that force main, which erosion has exposed. The force main for RSID 21 also has become exposed on one side of the river. Planning for repairing problems in sewer systems in North Havre is coming to the final stages, with a public meeting to discuss a draft engineering report being set for the near future. Craig Pozega of Great West Engineering, who is...
Chinook is expecting hundreds of visitors this summer as they host a statewide swim meet over the last weekend of July. The city has been considering how to prepare for the flood of students and their families from all over Montana and how to accommodate them for a couple months now. Chief of Police Mark Weber has been in contact with other communities that have recently held similar events, including Conrad who hosted it last year. According to Weber, the city has gotten a go-ahead to use the Blaine County Fairgrounds and...
Chinook's Chief of Police Mark Weber is going to clean up the town, or at least get people to tidy their own yards. At Thursday night's Chinook City Council meeting, Weber talked about two efforts he plans on making in the next month: To more strictly enforce the city's laws about junk on property and to craft a more enforceable lawn care ordinance for the council to look at next month. "Something has got to be done, " Weber said. "We tried to be nice, but it's just not working. " He said that the 10 properties in town he...
Havre Daily News/Becky Losey Gary LaValley poses for a photo in his home in Havre. The LaValleys credit the success of Gary's life-saving double-lung transplant surgery to the support of his family, friends, caretakers and community. "You've got to go through hell to get to heaven, but you can get through it if you have the support we have had, " said Gary's wife, of 20 years, Yvette. On-set of disease Gary LaValley has been working in the dirt for most of his life. Born to a family that has been farming and ranching in...
HELENA — Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Friday that he will use an upcoming two-week trip to China to promote Montana wheat, beef, tourism and energy — and will continue to run state affairs by remaining in "24/7" contact with staffers. The governor is scheduled to leave Friday. He's set to be the keynote speaker at a conference in Beijing on coal technologies, such as producing liquid fuel from coal. The Gasification & Coal Chemicals in Asia Pacific 2011 Conference is being held next Wednesday and Thursday. "I have been ask...
HELENA — Gov. Brian Schweitzer has ordered all flags in Montana to be flown at half-staff on Tuesday in honor of U.S. Marine Cpl. Steven Jorgenson, who was killed in an accident after returning to the U.S. from Afghanistan. Jorgenson, 22, died May 26 when he was struck by a car after exiting a cab in New York City during Fleet Week. He was 200 yards from his ship, the USS Iwo Jima, when he was hit. "To die on a city street after surviving in Afghanistan — it's just a strange tragedy that shouldn't have happened," his fat...
HELENA — A veteran Montana congressman is seeking a settlement in a year-old lawsuit against his hometown for the way it handled a wildfire on his land. But the city maintains Rep. Denny Rehberg and his wife have yet to even specify what they're seeking or file the paperwork needed to jumpstart the slow-moving case. The lawsuit is unfolding amid the biggest campaign of Rehberg's career as he challenges incumbent U.S. Sen. Jon Tester in 2012. Both candidates are expected to set fundraising records in Montana, and the race h...
MISSOULA — The son of NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana has pleaded not guilty to charges of driving under the influence of alcohol and speeding. Nate Montana appeared in Missoula County Justice Court on Friday. Jail records show the 21-year-old Montana was booked into jail on a first-offense DUI charge at 3:46 a.m. Friday and released after posting a $685 bond. The Missoulian reports that Montana and his attorney declined to comment at the hearing. Montana transferred from Notre Dame to the University of Montana in M...
AP Photo/Doug Dreyer A sign outside of a sandbagged home owned by Deb and MonteA Kenworthy expresses their displeasure at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Ft. Pierre, S.D. FORT PIERRE, S.D. — Sitting atop a 6-foot wall of white sandbags hastily stacked to protect his home from the rising Missouri River, 82-year-old Helmet Reuer doesn't buy the official explanation that heavy rains caused a sudden flood threat. Along with his neighbors in an upscale section of Fort Pierre, Reuer thinks the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers b...
HELENA — High waters from huge amounts of rainfall combined with melting snowpack over the past month are prompting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to release massive amounts of water from Fort Peck Dam earlier than expected. Roosevelt County officials announced Thursday afternoon that engineers plan on releasing 50,000 cubic feet per second of water from the dam starting June 9, revising an earlier plan to release that amount of water in mid-June. That decision likely will spell higher floodwaters sooner in the Dakotas. T...
Three-sport athletes don't come along every day in the prep ranks, but when they do, they seem to make an impact in each sport they play. Christina Mack is no exception, as she has made a name for herself as Blue Pony basketball, volleyball and tennis star. In Mack's four-year career at HHS she has been a key asset to each of the three varsity squads. She gave the basketball team an outside presence with her jump shot and gave the volleyball team a deep defense with her ability to earn the tough digs. And now, coming off of...
