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The Chinook girls captured their third straight Class B-C tennis state championship Saturday in Missoula. The Beeters scored a tournament record 56 points, including a state doubles title from the team of Lauren Harshman and Cortney Gunderson, who beat teammates Sierra Swank and Hattie Niederegger in the final. Chinook also got a third-place finish in singles from Brooke Nicholson and a sixth-place finish from Megan Pruttis. For more, see Tuesday's Havre Daily News. The Havre...
HELENA (AP) — A federal judge in Vermont has rejected Montana tribal officials' claims of sovereign immunity and said that he will hear a civil case alleging the tribe's online payday lending company illegally preys on poor borrowers. U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford's order Wednesday to proceed with the lawsuit against Plain Green LLC's leaders and non-Native American backers is a setback for lenders who use tribal sovereign immunity to offer high-interest short-term loans in states with laws that bar or cap such l...
Fred E. Bacon, whose Native American name is Kind Hearted Thunderbird Child (Kah-K Se What Sit Pi ye so ah wah sis), 24, passed away on Thursday, May 19, 2016, in Rocky Boy due to smoke inhalation. Wake services will begin at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 21, 2016, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church and will continue until 3 p.m. Sunday, May 22, 2016, when Fred will be moved to St. Mary's Catholic Church. Rosary will be held at 7 p.m. on Sunday, May 22, 2016, and funeral services will...
A Montana State University-Northern running back died Monday according to the Fergus County Sherriff's Department. Northern freshman and former Lewistown standout athlete Ethan Blythe died early Monday morning in Havre. A 2014 Lewistown graduate, the 5-foot-10, 205-pound Blythe was a two-year all-conference linebacker and running back for the Eagles, and was also one of the premier Class A wrestlers in the state. Blythe captured a 182-pound state title his senior year. As a sophomore, he finished second at 171 pounds and...
The Montana University System Board of Regents Friday voted unanimously for Paul Tuss of Havre, to continue his service as chair. The board is tasked with overseeing the governance of the 16 campuses that make up the state's university system. It met at Montana State University-Northern on Thursday and Friday. He was first appointed to the Board in 2011 and after a stint as vice chair, assumed his current position after then-Chair Angela McLean was tapped by Gov. Steve Bullock to be his lieutenant governor. Tuss is executive...
Despite mixed feelings of some of its members, the Montana State University System Board of Regents voted unanimously Friday to accept a gift of $8 million from Rightnow Technologies founder and Republican candidate for governor Greg Gianforte. Gianforte and his wife Susan had pledged to make an $8 million donation over five years to the Montana State School of Computing at MSU’s Bozeman campus. In return, the University would rename the school the Gianforte School of Computing. The deal has engendered opposition from c...
The 2016 Rocky Boy High School graduation ceremony celebrated the graduation of 18 seniors Thursday night in the school gymnasium. The ceremony began with a Native American welcome chant as people filed into the gymnasium. The graduates came out one by one, with the boys in crimson gowns and the girls in white. Robert Murie gave the invocation, during which he sang a thank you song in Cree. Salutatorian Bowen Standing Rock and Valedictorian Juanaya Valerie Gamble gave...
