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HELENA — The Montana Senate is endorsing a proposal popular with House Republicans to crack down on local school district sex education policies. The measure follows uproar in Helena last year over a proposed sex education plan that resulted in several long public meetings and revisions. The Senate voted 27-23 in support of the plan Thursday in an initial vote. House Bill 456 would require schools to notify parents in advance of sex education and receive the parent's written consent before their child attends. The bill p...
adioShack owner will continue gun giveaways HAMILTON — A Montana RadioShack owner said he will continue to give away guns with satellite television subscriptions despite the corporation's insistence he halt the promotion. Since October, independent dealer Steve Strand has been offering a gift card for a $125 pistol or $115 shotgun and a free background check to customers who sign up for two-year Dish Network packages. Those not interested in the firearms can opt for a $50 pizza gift certificate. RadioShack Corp. officials cal...
SUPERIOR — Authorities say they have identified a body found Friday as that of a 47-year-old Superior woman last seen Tuesday. The Mineral County Sheriff's Office said on Saturday that the body found in a wooded area by a search and rescue team is that of Kelly Dube-Woodard. Officials say autopsy results are pending. Dube-Woodard's ex-husband, Michael Woodard, remains in custody in Elko, Nev., following his arrest on Wednesday after being named a person of interest in her disappearance. He is being held at the Elko County j...
HELENA — Montana's attorney general says the three life sentences a Helena teen received for killing one boy and trying to kill two others are appropriate and shouldn't be overturned. Steve Bullock filed the documents with the state Supreme Court this week in response to an appeal by Sebastian Olivares-Coster's attorneys, who say the sentences constitute "cruel and unusual punishment." Olivares-Coster was 17 when he shot and killed 16-year-old Cory Andrewski on June 3, 2009. He also shot and seriously injured two other b...
Top official at state-run disability center leaves The Associated Press HELENA — A top official at a state facility that caters to people with developmental disabilities and behavioral problems has stepped down following a letter by an advocacy group that contends the facility has a pattern of abuse, neglect and mismanagement. Montana Developmental Center Superintendent Kathy Zeeck on Friday asked to be reassigned following the letter by Helena-based Disability Rights Montana. "We would have taken these actions regardless o...
Bozeman motorists file pothole damage claims The Associated Press BOZEMAN — Four motorists who say potholes in Bozeman damaged their vehicles have filed claims against the city this year. The Montana Municipal Interlocal Authority is the city's insurance company. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports that the company has denied two of the claims and is considering the other two. Of the denied claims, the company says the damage was caused by factors outside the city's control. Charles French still has an active claim. He s...
House leader pitches sales tax proposal for Mont. The Associated Press HELENA — The Republican House Majority leader is proposing a plan to do away with Montana's income tax and replace it with a sales tax. Rep. Tom McGillvray says House Bill 596 would boost the state's economy by eliminating the time and cost of income tax filing. Other supporters say states with a sales tax instead of an income tax attract workers and increase wages. No opponents spoke at the bill's hearing Wednesday but a recent poll conducted by Lee Newsp...
DURANT, Okla. (AP) — A Bryan County judge has sentenced a man to three life imprisonment terms, plus five years, for child abuse and moving the remains of his 12-year-old daughter from Oklahoma to Havre to Oregon. District Judge Mark Campbell imposed the life terms Thursday on Abel Wolf for enabling child abuse and child abuse by neglect. Wolf received five years for unlawful removal of a dead body. Wolf and his wife, Denise, were arrested in 2009 in Havre after local authorities received a tip from an Oklahoma detective. C...
7 train cars derail in Idaho, spilling grain The Associated Press BONNERS FERRY, Idaho — A BNSF Railway train loaded with grain has derailed in a remote canyon in Idaho, about 18 miles east of Bonners Ferry. BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas says 25 cars derailed Sunday afternoon as the train with four locomotives and 97 loads of grain headed from Montana to Kalama, Wash., at about 18 mph. Melonas says 18 cars are reported on their sides and seven are upright. He said crews will work through the night to move cars, remove s...
HELENA (AP) — Legislative Republicans have quickly shot down an attempt by Democrats to increase the state's renewable energy standard Montana utilities are required to procure a certain percentage of retail electricity sales from renewable resources such as wind power. The measure by Democratic Sen. Kendall Van Dyk of Billings would have increased that percentage to 25 percent. That's in contrast to Republican bills that critics say would water down the renewable energy standard or do away with it altogether. GOP leaders t...
HELENA (AP) — Legislative Republicans have quickly shot down an attempt by Democrats to increase the state's renewable energy standard Montana utilities are required to procure a certain percentage of retail electricity sales from renewable resources such as wind power. The measure by Democratic Sen. Kendall Van Dyk of Billings would have increased that percentage to 25 percent. That's in contrast to Republican bills that critics say would water down the renewable energy standard or do away with it altogether. GOP leaders t...
GOP-led House endorses Montana budget plan The Associated Press HELENA (AP) — The Republican-led House on Monday backed a Montana budget plan that decreases spending primarily by rolling back social services, but also made same last-minute cuts to proposed education spending. Overall, Republicans said their two-year budget plan reduces spending of state tax money about 5 percent to $3.6 billion. It also rejects about $120 million in federal money for programs like health care assistance for children and food stamps. R...
BILLINGS — Asbestos victims in a northwest Montana town where hundreds already have died will be eligible for new federal health care benefits starting next month. Federal officials on Monday announced the pilot program for the town of Libby, where a W.R. Grace vermiculite mine released asbestos that contaminated hundreds of households, businesses and surrounding forest. Under the program, the government will pay for services not normally covered by Medicare. They include special home care, medical equipment, counseling, h...
BILLINGS — Asbestos victims in a northwest Montana town where hundreds already have died will be eligible for new federal health care benefits starting next month. Federal officials on Monday announced the pilot program for the town of Libby, where a W.R. Grace vermiculite mine released asbestos that contaminated hundreds of households, businesses and surrounding forest. Under the program, the government will pay for services not normally covered by Medicare. They include special home care, medical equipment, counseling, h...
MISSOULA — Federal and state agents searched a 30-square-mile swath of rugged forest in northwest Montana Monday for a former militia leader and survivalist who officials say fired on deputies and previously told police "he wasn't going to be taken down like last time." David Burgert, 47, fired at Missoula County sheriff's deputies along a logging trail Sunday after leading them on a slow-speed chase near the town of Lolo on U.S. Highway 12. The deputies returned fire — no one was hurt — before Burgert grabbed gear from...
MISSOULA — The head of a new marijuana industry association has stepped down because he's facing felony drug charges. Nathan Pierce, the former president of the Montana Cannabis Industry Association, was arrested during a February traffic stop. Deputy Missoula County Attorney Andrew Paul says searches of Pierce and his vehicle turned up items believed to be hallucinogenic mushrooms and hashish. Court records say he also had four expired medical marijuana cards naming him as caregiver. The Missoulian reports Pierce is c...
Radiation levels surge outside Japan nuke plant TOKYO (AP) — Japanese nuclear officials say radiation levels inside a nuclear power plant have surged to 1,000 times their normal levels after the cooling system failed. The nuclear safety agency said early Saturday that some radiation has also seeped outside the plant, prompting calls for further evacuations of the area. Some 3,000 people have already been urged to leave their homes. The cooling system for a reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant failed on Friday after a...
Warner: Sheen fired from 'Two and a Half Men' LOS ANGELES — Warner Bros. Television says it has fired Charlie Sheen from the hit sitcom "Two and a Half Men." The studio that produces the CBS series said the decision was made after "careful consideration." Sheen's erratic personal life had prompted Warner to suspend production on the show for the season, and Sheen in return had been waging an angry media campaign against the show's producers. No decision has been made on the future of the series, Warner Bros. said in a s...
HADEEL AL-SHALCHI KARIN LAUB Associated Press CAIRO — The young Google Inc. executive detained by Egyptian authorities for 12 days said Monday he was behind the Facebook page that helped spark what he called "the revolution of the youth of the Internet." A U.S.-based human rights group said nearly 300 people have died in two weeks of clashes. Wael Ghonim, a marketing manager for the Internet company, sobbed throughout an emotional television interview just hours after he was freed as he described how he spent 12 days in d...
HAMBURG, Iowa — Massive sandbags dropped on a faltering Missouri River levee have temporarily fortified the floodwall and given Army engineers more time to construct a secondary barrier to protect a threatened Iowa community, authorities said Monday. Jim Lee/Sioux City Journal Water accumulates on Hamilton Blvd in Sioux City, Iowa, Sunday. Cities up and down the Missouri River in Nebraska and Iowa are inspecting flood walls and piling up sandbags to prepare for a deluge of water the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will r...
1 killed, 1 hurt falling out of tour bus in Mass. SHIRLEY, Mass. (AP) — One man was killed and another injured when the two fell out of a bathroom window of a tour bus in Massachusetts that was coming from a brewery in New Hampshire, Massachusetts State Police said Sunday. Police said Thomas Johnson, 31, of Gardner was killed when he fell Saturday night onto Route 2 in Shirley. Seth Davis, 34, of Winchendon was in fair condition at a Worcester hospital, a nursing supervisor said Sunday. The Colonial Tours bus was heading b...
Zsa Zsa Gabor taken to hospital by ambulance LOS ANGELES — Zsa Zsa Gabor was rushed to a hospital Wednesday in an ambulance when blood flow stopped to her leg, a publicist said. Doctors ordered the ailing 94-year-old actress to go to UCLA Medical Center because of the problem with her left leg, publicist John Blanchette said. Most of Gabor's right leg was amputated in January because of gangrene. Gabor broke her hip and had replacement surgery in July. She has been hospitalized several times since then for swelling, clots a...
TRIPOLI, Libya — Angry mobs attacked Western embassies and U.N. offices in Tripoli Sunday after NATO bombed Moammar Gadhafi's family compound in an attack officials said killed the leader's second-youngest son and three grandchildren. Russia accused the Western alliance of exceeding its U.N. mandate of protecting Libyan civilians with the strike. AP Photo/Darko Bandic In this photo made on a government organized tour, loyalists chant and burn a US flag at the Gadhafi family compound in a residential area of Tripoli, Libya, Su...
GREAT FALLS — Officials at the History Museum in Great Falls have announced that a film featuring Walter Breuning costing $16 will be available on Tuesday. AP Photo/Mike Albans 114-year-old Walter Breuning stands under a portrait of himself in the lobby of his senior residence in Great Falls on Oct. 6. Officials at a Montana retirement home say the world's oldest man has died. Walter Breuning was 114, making him the oldest man and the second-oldest person in the world. Breuning was born on Sept. 21, 1896, in Melrose, Minn., a...
HELENA — A volunteer task force looking into ways to improve health care as well as relations between St. Peter's Hospital and the local community is calling for increased community oversight of the hospital. The Task Force on Local Access to Universal Health Care recommends that the City-County Board of Health begin a dialogue with the hospital in Helena. The board appointed the task force in 2008. County Health Officer Melanie Reynolds says the board will look at the recommendations in an upcoming work session before m...
