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A Box Elder man who allegedly robbed someone of an AK-47 rifle at gunpoint back in March is recently accused of stealing a car in Great Falls and leading tribal police on a chase before crashing into a pole. Dakota Blackelk Houle, born in 1996, is charged with felony theft. He is scheduled to appear in District Court in Havre Monday to enter a plea on the new charges and for a hearing on a petition to revoke his release on previous charges. Charging court documents say Rocky...
A BNSF Railway train hit a vehicle Tuesday night in Rudyard, BNSF and law enforcement officials said this morning. The collision happened at 9:14 p.m. at the Rudyard Main Street crossing, and no one was injured, Montana Highway Patrol dispatch and a BNSF spokesperson said. The type of vehicle struck was not available. BNSF Public Affairs Director Ross Lane said one occupant was in the vehicle. Before the impact, the gates and lights were working and activated, and the engineering crew sounded the warning whistle. He did not...
A Harlem woman received three years probation for drunkenly attacking her sister and hitting her sister's boyfriend with a bottle. injuring both. Amber (Black Lance) Lawrence, born in 1985, received a three-year deferred imposition of sentence Monday morning in District Court in Havre. The sentence is part of a no contest plea deal in which Lawrence pleaded nolo contendere to a felony count of assault with a weapon. Three other charges were dismissed in the plea agreement:...
A Havre woman's sentencing hearing has been reset so she can provide police with information about accomplices in a $45,000 embezzling scheme from Crystal City and Hi-line Gold casinos. Kyra Lynne Gerber, born in 1988, who will be ordered to pay $45,530 in restitution for two felony counts of theft by embezzlement she pleaded guilty to early September, is set to be sentenced Jan. 8 at 10 a.m. in District Court in Havre. Investigation of Gerber's theft started Sept. 19, 2016,...
A Havre man is charged with having nude photos on his phone of an underage girl. Robert Adam Hutson, born in North Carolina in 1995, is charged with felony sexual abuse of children. He is scheduled to be arraigned Dec. 18 at 9:45 a.m. Hutson is also facing three other charges in two other separate cases filed this year. In one case, Hutson is charged with felony criminal possession with intent to distribute and misdemeanor criminal possession of drug paraphernalia after...
For the third time since it has become tradition, the Capitol Christmas Tree has been cut from Montana forests, and it stopped on its way to the nation's capitol at Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, where an enthusiastic community welcomed it with fanfare and tribal dance. The tree, which is trekking from Libby to Washington, D.C., arrived before noon, about 45 minutes behind schedule, after passing through Big Sandy, Box Elder, Havre, Chinook and Harlem en route from Great Fal...
Four Havre High School students, aided by the school athletics director, showed up to the Havre Food Bank, just half an hour before noon Thursday, and unloaded 48 turkeys. "It's about the kids giving back," Havre High School Athletics Director Murphy said, while en route to the turkey storage area in the Food Bank, a box of turkeys in his arms. "It's our way of saying thank you to our community for supporting us, we'll support them a little bit during the holiday season," Murp...
A Box Elder man received two years with the Department of Corrections for hitting a detention officer in the face. Francisco Delrosa Valencia Jr., born in 1974, received two years with the Department of Corrections Monday in District Court in Havre for assaulting a detention officer. The sentence is part of a plea deal. A Havre Police Department officer brought Valencia to the Hill County Detention Officer Oct. 21, 2016. A detention staff deputy then escorted Valencia to a holding cell, where he removed his handcuffs....
A Havre man received five years with the Department of Corrections after being found with 23 bindles of methamphetamine for distribution purposes. Jason Lee Berger, born in 1983, was sentenced in District Court in Havre to five years for felony criminal possession with intent to distribute followed by a two years suspended commitment. District Judge Daniel Boucher also sentenced Berger to five years, all suspended, for felony use of property subject to criminal forfeiture. The sentence is part of a plea deal. Berger’s s...
The Montana Food and Agriculture Development Center Network was created to help agricultural visionaries and entrepreneurs with ideas who need a little extra push making it happen. "You have a great idea. We have the tools to get your product to market and help your business grow," a statement on the FADC pamphlet says. Taylor Lyon, a native Houstonian who came to work for Montana State University-Northern's Advanced Fuels Center after receiving his degree in biology from...
Havre Public Schools is looking at additional annual cuts of about $156,000 on top of the already projected cuts of $100,000, the Havre Public Schools superintendent told board trustees Tuesday night. Superintendent Andy Carlson told trustees in their monthly meeting in the Havre Middle School that, at the time, the cuts will most likely be in the form of transportation and state block grants. However, he added, it's difficult to tell the way things will ultimately pan out in...
United Way of Hill County is in the middle of its annual three-month fundraising campaign and a spokesperson said the goal this year is to raise more money than last year. "We were really in awe of how well the campaign went last year. We raised $80,000 last year and we'd like to raise a little more this year," United Way board member Kristi Peterson said Monday. United Way raises money annually for 10 local service organization partners. Peterson said those agencies do not...
Scientists spoke Friday at the Northern Agricultural Research Center about a recently completed study that explores past and projected climate warming and what affect it will have on Montana's water availability and agriculture. One of the major goals of the project - the group has been traveling the state holding talks - is to inform people, especially ag producers, so they can adapt as it relates to production and economic output, said assessment co-author and lead author...
A Havre man received three years probation Thursday in District Court for beating and strangling his wife. Christopher Michael Voss, born in 1986, received separate three year deferred imposition of sentences for the offenses of strangulation of a partner or family member and tampering with a witness or informant, both felonies. The sentence is part of a plea deal that dismissed a felony assault with a weapon charge. Voss has served 112 days in jail. Voss said he wanted his family back and was not going to do anything he...
A Box Elder man who burglarized multiple Beaver Creek cabins received two years with the Department of Corrections, was ordered to pay more than $4,000 in restitution and is prohibited from entering the park for five years. Garrick A. Ferguson, born in 1972, was sentenced to seven years, all but two suspended, Thursday morning in District Court in Havre. He received credit for 57 days already served. He was ordered to pay $4,111.79 total in restitution, which is to be...
Local veteran chapters are hosting a Veterans Day Ceremony Saturday starting at 11 a.m. in Town Square to which the public is invited. The ceremonies will begin with a 21-gun salute and taps will be played by the honor guard. Bill Tucker, commander of Foreign Wars Post 497, will greet people and speak a few words before Pastor Tanner Howard of First Lutheran Church in Havre gives an invocation prayer. The event will then move into the Elks Club on Second Street, where the...
For the third year in a row, a Community Thanksgiving Service will be held at the Northern Montana Care Center, where attendees will hear singing puppets, a band comprising local pastors and a message from a new pastor in the area. The singing puppets are a staple at Community Alliance Church, where congregants are treated to stories and songs by them throughout the year. This year, the puppets will be singing two songs instead of one at the Care Center, Greater Havre Area Ministerial Association Chair Curt Curtis said. The...
Havre area Special Olympic athletes will spend, starting today, three days in the Helena region, where they will participate in the 2017 fall games State Basketball Tournament. About 13 athletes departed this morning at about 8:30 and some are scheduled to take the court twice Friday, Special Olympics Area Director Dave Carlson said Wednesday. Havre's athletes will play five-on-five basketball as well as take part in individual competitions that include shooting, passing and...
A Havre man who fought the Centennial Mountain Fire in the Bear Paw Mountains in 1984 says there are many similarities between this summer's East Fork Fire and the blaze he battled long ago. Jim Tautges of Havre had been on the Bear Paw Volunteer Fire Department about three of his 13 total years, he said, when lightning struck Aug. 19, 1984, and started the Centennial Mountain Fire on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. "As a volunteer, you just dropped whatever you were doing...
Hill County Park Board members met Monday and discussed contracting loggers to clear out burnt timber, dealing with delinquent lessees and construction options for lessees who lost buildings to the East Fork Fire. The East Fork Fire left a trail of burnt timber, Beaver Creek Park Superintendent Chad Edgar said in the Timmons Room of the Hill County Courthouse during the board's monthly meeting, and he has been talking to a logger from Kalispell about clearing it out. The...
A Havre man pleaded guilty Thursday in District Court in Havre to hitting a 9-month-old and causing a hemorrhage in the infant’s left eye. Bruce Collins, born in 1989, pleaded guilty to felony assault on a minor and is scheduled for sentencing Dec. 18. A registered nurse at Northern Montana Hospital called police Feb. 6 to report that a child had “suspicious bruising” and a hemorrhage on his face. The responding officer noticed the bruising on the left side of the child’s face from his eye to his jawbone, a handprint on the...
Tom Lowe started driving buses for the North Central Montana Transit in 2012 as a way to occupy his retired life, and two weeks ago he became the new director of the region's transit system. Lowe is a native Havreite who moved back in 2009 after retiring from years working for BNSF Railway. In 2012, he took a part-time job with North Central Montana Transit as "a reason to get up in the morning," he said, and he took the wheel as director after the former director, Jim Lyons,...
With big game hunting season in full swing, hunters have been seeing and harvesting game aplenty, wildlife officials say. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Havre-area biologist Scott Hemmer said Wednesday that 151 hunters have brought their mule deer to the check station this season, a number that's up about 20 percent from this time last year. FWP posted on its website Monday that the Havre hunter check station was fairly active over the Oct. 21-22 weekend of general deer and...
A Box Elder man received six years probation and was ordered to pay more than $5,000 in restitution for writing bad checks. Ronald Dale Stump, born in 1988, received six years with the Department of Corrections, all suspended, for six felony offenses of issuing bad checks by common scheme. He also received six months in the county jail, all suspended, for four misdemeanor offenses of issuing bad checks by common scheme and ordered to pay $5,316.87 in restitution to victims. His sentence was part of a plea deal. A First...
The dry and hot 2017 weather, compounded by fires in some areas, has been rough on north-central Montana’s agriculture producers. The Havre-north-central region received 3.18 inches of precipitation from March to September, the National Weather Service reports. The region saw 14.83 inches of precipitation during that same period in 2016. This year has been like nothing he has ever seen in his nearly 30 years at FSA, Executive Director of the Hill County FSA Office Les Rispens said. “It was a strange weather year. I don...
