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HELENA (AP) — Another candidate Democrats were hoping to recruit for Montana's open Senate seat said Tuesday she won't be running for the office. Stephanie Schriock, who helped run U.S. Sen. Jon Tester's 2006 campaign and is currently president of the Washington, D.C.-based group Emily's List, said she considered the idea, but ultimately rejected it. Some Democrats had been touting her as a skilled fundraiser capable of taking on a big race and hoped she would step into fill a void. "Montana raised me, and it will always b...
The man the tribal council at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation removed from its chair is back on. In a special election for the chair of the Chippewa Cree Tribe’s Business Committee, voters elected Ken Blatt St. Marks with 453 votes. St. Marks could not be reached for comment this morning. Richard “Ricky” Morsette, who with the other committee members unanimously voted March 25 to remove St. Marks from office, came in second with 315 votes. Former council vice chair and current state Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy was third with 19...
HELENA (AP) — A U.S. Senate subcommittee is again taking up bills from U.S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester that deal with federal land protections in Montana. Tester told the Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Tuesday that it is time to pass his bill that aims to both mandate more logging and expand wilderness area. The measure was first introduced in 2009 and is billed as a compromise between timber mills and environmentalists. It stalled last year amid partisan differences accentuated by his heated r...
A Havre man will spend four years in federal prison for selling methamphetamine in the region for several years. Judge Dana Christensen in federal court in Great Falls sentenced Rodney Cooper, 50, to 48 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release after Cooper previously pleaded guilty to possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. According to the press release from the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana, police began investigating Cooper, long suspected of distributing meth in Havre...
BILLINGS — A Richland County prosecutor is asking a judge to accept a confession from an illiterate man charged in the killing of a high school teacher. Defense attorneys have sought to suppress Michael Keith Spell's alleged confession to the 2012 murder of 43-year-old Sherry Arnold of Sidney. Deputy Richland County Attorney T.R. Halvorson said in court papers filed Friday that there was no evidence of police misconduct during interviews with Spell after his arrest. Halvorson says officers made sure Spell understood he did n...
A utility company that supplies electricity and natural gas to many north-central Montana residents is doing $1.1. million worth of upgrades in the area that could lead to short interruptions in service. “NorthWestern (Energy) will work to notify customers in advance of any outages and apologizes for any inconvenience they might cause,” the company said in a press release. One project, from Box Elder north on U.S. Highway 87, is being done in conjunction with a Montana Department of Transportation project to resurface the...
Playoffs spots, a big scramble and the nearing of the high school golf season. Those are things that will happen when July turns to August this week. This week marks the final week of Wednesday night men’s league regular season golf at Prairie Farms, and the playoff race is heating up. There’s a final scramble for the four remaining spots Wednesday night with only two of the current top four teams already having locked up playoff berths in the first half of the season. Mea...
Frontier Conference sports are right around the corner. The Montana State University-Northern volleyball and football teams will report to fall camp next week, and the season-opening games are not far off. But Havre won’t be the only place heating up in recent weeks as it relates to Frontier Conference and NAIA sports. And one former Blue Pony, and Frontier Conference great is now a little farther from home but will start his duties higher up on the coaching ladder. Former H...
Dennis Leroy Paulson, age 70, passed away July 28, 2013. Memorial services will be held Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, at 2 p.m. at the American Lutheran Church in Chinook. Arrangements have been made with Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook....
Havre Police Department Officers arrested a man with a pick-up and hold order brought into the police station by probation and parole personnel Monday at 7:02 a.m. No further information was provided. ——— Officers investigated a report made Monday at 7:07 a.m. of a vehicle vandalized on 2nd Street. ——— After a caller at a 1st Street West business reported a drunken driver at 1:37 p.m. Monday, responding officers arrested a 52-year-old Havre woman for aggravated driving under the influence and careless driving. ——— Officer...
Lydia Standaert, 4, floats in an inflatable tube in an above-ground pool last week....
A special election to fill the vacant head position at the Chippewa Cree Business Committee at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation is underway today, with six candidates including the man removed from the office in March. The polls opened at the Old Stone Child College Gymnasium at 8 this morning, with voting scheduled to run through 8 p.m. The position came open when the Business Committee voted unanimously March 25 to remove Ken Blatt St. Marks from the office. St. Marks is one of the candidates today, as is one of the c...
