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HELENA (AP) — The talk in American Legion and Veterans of Foreign War halls and barrooms across Montana has been about Sen. John Walsh since the Democrat linked a cribbed research project he wrote in 2007 to post-traumatic stress disorder. How those veteran voters respond means a lot to Walsh, who has built his election campaign for the Senate around his 33-year career in the National Guard and his proposals to help veterans and their families. The reaction so far has been a mixed bag of condemnation, sympathy and shrugs. "...
The death of Havre's record store was announced this week, ending an almost two-decade run. Rick Linie, manager of Creative Leisure, said the record, movie rental, CD and book store will be closing Sept. 30 at the latest. The store's merchandise will be liquidated - 50 percent off books and 25 percent off everything else - a little under cost, Linie said. The space is already rented out. A quilt store and Henny Penny Cupcakes are slated to move into the space once the posters...
HELENA (AP) — The Montana Supreme Court has unanimously upheld a rule requiring that milk in Montana be sold or discarded 12 days after pasteurization. Thursday's decision dismisses an appeal by food distributor Core-Mark International that tried to abolish the "sell-by" rule. Core-Mark had argued that the processor is in the best position to determine the shelf-life of its milk and the 12-day rule discriminates against out-of-state producers who can print "use-by" dates on milk sold in other states. Details in Monday's H...
Laurel — Havre Police acted quickly and professionally in responding to an armed robbery at Western Pharmacy earlier this week and in promptly apprehending a suspect. Robberies are infrequent in this community, fortunately, and it was important to arrest the perpetrator as soon as possible to calm fears. Dart — Goofballs who criticized the police for not capturing the suspect at the site of the robbery since it was only two blocks away. First, we’re sure the suspect’s main goal in all of this was to get away from the pharmac...
BILLINGS (AP) — A serial rapist who did not leave any DNA at the crime scenes, but was undone by his need to photograph them, has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. District Judge Russell C. Fagg sentenced 42-year-old Toby Eugene Griego on Friday to 22 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, plus 60 years and six months in prison. Fagg said he'd never seen a more dangerous criminal or bigger predator in Billings, The Billings Gazette (http://bit.ly/1tKKmGv) reported. "It will be my h...
A Havre woman is accused of stealing at gunpoint more than 6,000 pills from a Havre pharmacy Monday, and of selling almost 2,000 of them by the time police arrested her at a Havre hotel the next day. Arlene Morsette, 34, was in the Hill County jail this morning on $100,000 bond on charges of possessing drugs with intent to distribute, possession of drugs, robbery, assault with a weapon, criminal child endangerment, and having property subject to forfeiture. Charges in state District Court had not been filed yet as of this...
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — This week Democratic U.S. Sen. John Walsh dominated campaign news with revelations that his thesis written to earn a master's degree from the U.S. Army War College in 2007 contains unattributed passages taken word-for-word from previously published papers. His challenger for the seat, Republican Rep. Steve Daines, so far has remained silent, seemingly content to let the controversy unfold. Daines spokeswoman Alee Lockman said Friday they are still monitoring the news and have nothing to add at this t...
The name of another Rocky Boy resident — and some returning names — are in a series of federal embezzlement indictments unsealed Thursday in federal court in Great Falls. They include: • Wade Colliflower pleaded not guilty to three counts in each of two indictments unsealed Thursday. Tribal council member John “Chance” Houle pleaded not guilty June 24 to nine charges he faces in the two cases. • Mark Leischner of Laurel, also appeared in court to face five charges in one of the cases. Leischner’s attorney was not present, and...
Renita Joy Potts, 62, of Rocky Boy, passed away on Thursday, July 24, 2014, at Benefis Medical Center in Great Falls after a short, hard-fought battle with cancer. Wake services will begin at noon on Friday, July 25, 2014, at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Rocky Boy, and will continue until her traditional funeral service at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 26, 2014. Burial will follow in the Eagleman Family Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements, and you can leave your memories a...
For the 29th installment of this series celebrating the 150th anniversary of Montana Territory, we take a look at the news in the July 25, 1914 issue of The Havre Plaindealer. The event getting the most news was the upcoming Hill County Fair. The fair was celebrating its third year back in 1914, and the organizers were working hard to produce a top-notch event. Former Gov. Norris announced he would attend and address the crowd. The Rev. L. J. Christler, of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church (also known as the Naughty Reverend), was...
The Jaycees Demolition Derby and Bump 'N' Run was bigger and better this year at the Great Northern Fair in Havre Sunday. Twenty-one full-sized derby cars and four herby cars took part in this year's show put on by the Havre Jaycees and all but one of them were moving at the end of the event. The engines roared in the muddy pit in front of over 1,400 fans and rammed into each other until their opponents or themselves were unable to continue. The bump 'n' run was a new...
Nothing says Americana quite like the Midwestern heartland and good ol’ American ketchup, and nothing says America’s heartland needs you more now than ever than a 170-foot-tall ketchup bottle going on the auction block in a little city called Collinsville, Illinois. This isn't just any old 170-foot ketchup bottle. It is a vintage, mint condition, red-white-and-blue, world’s giantest ketchup-bottle-disguised 100,000 gallon water tower, ever. Ever, I tell you. But that...
Strong winds flipped a moving trailer, rolling the vehicle towing it, Thursday at 2 p.m. on U.S. Highway 87 south of Big Sandy. The vehicle was headed north on U.S. Highway 87 pulling an empty utility trailer when west winds tipped it over onto its right side at mile marker 74. An information report from the Montana Highway Patrol said the vehicle then entered a counter-clockwise rotation and rolled three quarter times, coming to a rest on the driver's side. The trailer was...
The 5th Annual Kellen Memorial Bike Ride will bring bicyclists to Pepin Park Saturday. The ride begins at 10:30 a.m. at the park and registration to ride is at 9 a.m. or on their website at http://www.kellenmemorialride.org. Along with the ride, activities will include a cone bicycle race and a slowest bicycle race. The ride is named after a young Havre resident who was killed when he was hit by a truck as he crossed the viaduct while walking his bicycle. Twelve bicycles will...
A former Chippewa Cree Tribe health center employee will spend three years in custody, including more than a year in federal prison, and was ordered Thursday to pay back $19,735.77 he stole from the tribe. A federal jury convicted Wilford Harlan “Huck” Sunchild after a two-day trial in April on three counts of embezzlement. Federal District Judge Brian Morris sentenced Sunchild in federal court in Great Falls to 12 months and one day in prison followed by two years supervised release on each count, with the three sen...
The Chippewa Cree Rodeo Association, with the sponsorship of Washington Redskins Original Americans Foundation, is conducting three days of rodeo schools at the Sybil Sangrey-Colliflower Memorial Arena three miles east of Box Elder A team roping, steer wrestling and calf roping school will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, July 29-30, starting at 9 a.m. each day. The lead instructor for the school is Nolan Conway of Browning. Conway is ranked in the top 10 for the Indian...
Scoring runs has been an issue at times for the Havre North Stars American Legion baseball team. And that issue reared its head at the worst of times for the North Stars. In the opening round of the 2014 Northern A District Tournament Thursday morning in Fort MacLeod, Alberta, Havre managed to plate just one run in nine innings, and the result was a 6-1 loss to the Vauxhall Spurs. With the loss, Havre must now defeat the No. 2seeded Medicine Hat Knights this morning in order...
Havre Police Department Donald Keith Cochran, 49, of Havre was arrested on a Justice or City court warrant after an officers served it to him at the Hill County Courthouse at 9:40 a.m. Thursday. ——— Officers investigated a 1:27 p.m. Thursday call from the college area about someone wanted assistance with a friend who overdosed on insulin. ——— Officers investigated a 5:09 p.m. Thursday call from 1st Avenue about vandalism to a vehicle. ——— Juanita Sue Head, 37, of Havre was served a Justice or City court warrant at the Hi...
During his college wrestling career, Havre native Kyle Fisher did it all. Fisher won an individual NAIA national championship, he was a part of a team national championship with the Montana State University-Northern Lights. Yes, in his many years on the wrestling mats in Havre, Fisher accomplished plenty. Now he can add Northern Hall of Fame honors to his legacy. Fisher, who is now a high school administrator in Alberton, was inducted into the Northern Athletic Hall of Fame...
NFL training camp is becoming old hat for former Havre Blue Pony and University of Montana standout Marc Mariani. But making it out of training camp and into the regular season is something Mariani is striving to do for the first time in three years. Mariani, who signed a one-year contract with the Tennessee Titans in the spring, enters his fifth camp with Tennessee, which gets underway this afternoon at Baptist Sports Park in Nashville. And while he’s a veteran of camps n...
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