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GREAT FALLS (AP) — Officials plan to release 30 endangered black-footed ferrets at Montana's Fort Belknap Reservation next month. Mark Azure of Fort Belknap Fish and Wildlife tells the Great Falls Tribune the ferrets will be released into 1,000 acres of active prairie dog towns on Oct. 3. Officials are trying to bolster populations, but say the state's last surviving population of ferrets at the UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge has fallen to a handful of animals. The reintroduction next month is part of a bigger effort to r... Full story
Saturday's Scores The Associated Press PREP FOOTBALL Chinook 49, Centerville 28 Culbertson-Bainville 44, Froid/Medicine Lake 6 Fairview 40, Scobey-Opheim 14 Great Falls Central 68, Sunburst 0 Heart Butte 43, Augusta 36 Hobson-Moore-Judith Gap 78, Fromberg-Roberts 0 Lima 61, West Yellowstone 20 Lone Peak 40, Camas County, Idaho 19 Park City 46, Gardiner 30 Power-Dutton-Brady 44, Cascade 16 Stanford/Geyser/Denton 82, Box Elder 39 Terry 78, Richey-Lambert 60 Victor 38, Philipsburg 20... Full story
Last month, the Montana State University-Northern Lights managed just 14 points in a road win at Dickinson State. On Saturday afternoon, the Lights scored that many points in just three minutes. On a sunny homecoming day at Blue Pony Stadium, the Lights trounced the visiting Dickinson State Blue Hawks 49-24, improving to 3-1 on the season. Northern scored on its opening drive, a long touchdown run by Zach McKinley. Then, on DSU's opening drive, David Arteaga scooped up a Blue... Full story
MISSOULA (AP) — State wildlife officials say they still haven't confirmed why nearly 200 whitetail deer have died near Frenchtown but suspect epizootic hemorrhagic disease. "We've not found it out here before, and that's why we're really taking a close look at it," said Neil Anderson, a lab supervisor with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. "It's usually found east of the Rocky Mountains. We haven't seen a (Montana) case west of the Rocky Mountain Front since records started in the 1990s." The disease is transmitted by b... Full story
NEW YORK (AP) — A tentative deal has been reached in a New York court fight over the will of an eccentric Montana copper mining heiress. A person familiar with the case tells The Associated Press on Saturday that Huguette (oo-GET') Clark's relatives have reached a tentative settlement with a hospital, a nurse and others over the distribution of her roughly $300 million estate. Clark's relatives will get about $34.5 million after taxes under the deal. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the settlement b... Full story
