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ROME, Ga. (AP) — Former Havre Blue Pony Gary Wagner had been waiting for this moment. And when he got it, he ran with it, literally. Wagner scored Carroll College's only touchdown of the day, while Tom Yaremko atoned for two earlier missed field goals, one which hit the right upright in the first quarter and the left upright in the second by making a 22-yard field goal with 7:47 left as Carroll snapped Sioux Falls' record-tying 42-game winning streak with a 10-7 victory Saturday in the NAIA national championship game in Rome,...
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Border Patrol says that one of its agents has been shot to death after a confrontation in southern Arizona. Border Patrol spokesman Eric Cantu confirmed the agent's death to The Associated Press on Wednesday morning. Cantu tells KTVK-TV the agent is identified as Brian Terry. Cantu says Terry was shot and killed after confronting several suspects near Rio Rico north of Nogales. At least four people are in custody and possibly one more remains at large. Cantu says the FBI and local sheriff's o...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a sweeping tax package that would save millions of Americans thousands of dollars in higher taxes while also reducing their Social Security taxes and extending jobless benefits. President Barack Obama swiftly urged the House to pass the $858 billion bill without changes, a slap at Democratic liberals eager to toughen a part of the measure that permits up to $10 million to pass to heirs estate tax-free. In the Senate, Max Baucus, D-Mont,and Jon Tester, D-Mont., v...
upreme Court upholds inmate's execution stay HELENA (AP) — The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a judge's stay of execution for a Canadian man on death row. The justices had been asked to intervene in apparently conflicting orders by two district judges. One order set a Jan. 31 execution date for Ronald Allen Smith. The other granted the Canadian man a stay while he challenges the constitutionality of the state's method of lethal injection. District Judge John Larson asked the Supreme Court to step in, saying Judge Jeffrey S...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The British monarchy tale "The King's Speech" led Golden Globe contenders Tuesday with seven nominations, including best drama and acting honors for Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush. Other best-drama nominees were the psychosexual dance thriller "Black Swan," the boxing saga "The Fighter," the sci-fi blockbuster "Inception" and the Facebook chronicle "The Social Network." Nominees in the Globes' other best-picture category, for musical or comedy, are the Lewis Carroll fantasy "...
BILLINGS (AP) — A U.S. Geological Survey scientist plans to study trees in Yellowstone National Park to determine whether geysers are losing steam, and maybe even get a better idea of how to predict earthquakes. Some trees near Mammoth Hot Springs date back to the 1500s, said Bill Evans, and determining the amount of carbon dioxide trapped in them by taking core samples and examining tree rings might tell scientists whether the amount of carbon dioxide being released in the area has fluctuated over time. He said it's p...
KALISPELL (AP) — The superintendent of a northwestern Montana school says he doesn't think the school board will expel a junior who inadvertently brought an unloaded rifle to school in the trunk of her car. Superintendent Michael Nicosia says he believes the 16-year-old honor student and varsity cheerleader will be back in classes at Columbia Falls High School before Christmas break. The board is scheduled to meet Monday to discuss the case. Nicosia tells the Daily Inter Lake he's not going to recommend that she be e...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — While officials debated the safety of hauling huge loads of equipment from Idaho into Montana, an oversized load of refinery equipment made a two-month trip from Oklahoma to south-central Montana. The huge piece of equipment arrived at the Exxon Mobil refinery in Lockwood Wednesday night, The Billings Gazette reported. It left Tulsa, Okla., on Oct. 18 and was hauled by Oregon-based Emmert International. Emmert spokesman Greg Brooks said the top speed for the load was about 20 mph and travel was s...
THREE FORKS — The youngest Montana Highway Patrol officer ever killed in the line of duty fought to the end as a warrior in a shootout on a rural road, the patrol's chaplain told the officer's grieving family and thousands who attended the funeral Tuesday. Trooper David DeLaittre, 23, died last Wednesday during a traffic stop outside his hometown of Three Forks. He had stopped to investigate an idling truck in the middle of the roadway. The driver of the truck shot him in the head and torso with a shotgun, authorities s...
KALISPELL (AP) — A 16-year-old Columbia Falls High School student faces expulsion after inadvertently bringing an unloaded hunting rifle to school. Shortly after school officials announced on Dec. 1 that contraband-sniffing dogs were at school, she remembered the rifle in her car trunk and told the school secretary. The secretary said she would get the message to the principal. Not long after, assistant principal Scott Gaiser told her she was suspended and faced at least a 21-day expulsion. A hearing is set for Monday n...
SANTIAGO, Chile — A fire set off during a riot in a severely overcrowded prison killed at least 83 inmates Wednesday and seriously injured at least 14 others, firefighters said. Chileans nationwide could hear inmates screaming after a prisoner used an illegal cell phone to call state television for help. "The conditions that existed inside this prison are absolutely inhumane," said Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, who visited an emergency center where inmates were being treated for severe burns and smoke inhalation. N...
HELENA (AP) — Former Havre High quarterback Gary Wagner has been to the NAIA national championship game, twice. Now, the sixth-yar Carroll College senior will get his opportunity to lead the Saints to a victory in that game. Wagner got a huge effort from running back Chance Demarais who rushed 24 times for 119 yards and a touchdown, and Jon Camino rushed 29 times for 128 yards as second-ranked Carroll College defeated third-ranked St. Xavier of Illinois 27-5 Saturday in the semifinals of the NAIA football playoffs at N...
The Assopciated Press HELENA — A pilot program that requires repeat drunk driving offenders to undergo twice-daily breath tests is successful in keeping them sober while keeping them out of jail, Helena-area law enforcement officers said. The 24/7 Sobriety Program has administered about 5,000 breath tests in Lewis and Clark County since it began in May, with 22 of those failing, the Independent Record reports. Under the program, those arrested for a second or subsequent DUI who post bond are required to submit a breath t...
HELENA (AP) — Gov. Brian Schweitzer has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff on Tuesday to honor a Montana trooper shot to death outside Three Forks. David DeLaittre died Wednesday in an apparent shootout after the trooper stopped to investigate a truck parked in the middle of a rural road in southwestern Montana. Authorities say the body of the alleged shooter, Errol Brent Bouldin, was found hours later in the truck about 35 miles north. Funeral services for DeLaittre will be held Tuesday at Three Forks High School. S...
LINCOLN(AP) — A 1.4-acre parcel of land in western Montana that was once owned by Unabomber Ted Kaczynski is on the market for $69,500. The listing — by John Pistelak Realty of Lincoln — offers potential buyers a chance to own a piece of "infamous U.S. history." "This is a one of a kind property and is obviously very secluded," the listing says. It doesn't say who owns the property. The forested land, which had been listed at $154,500, does not have electricity or running water. Photos posted with the online listing show...
BOZEMAN (AP) — An official with the state wildlife agency has told Montana State University's president that cooperation between the two entities could end due to one of the school's scientists challenging the agency's conclusions on how significantly a proposed wolf hunt would reduce wolf populations. Dave Risley is the Helena-based administrator of the fish and wildlife division for the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. He wrote an Oct. 14 letter to MSU President Waded Cruzado saying six decades of c...
HELENA (AP) — Funeral services for a Montana Highway Patrol officer killed in a shooting will be held in Three Forks on Tuesday. At age 23, David DeLaittre (duh-LATE') is the youngest trooper in Montana to die in the line of duty. He was killed Wednesday in an apparent shootout after he stopped to investigate a truck parked in the middle of a road outside Three Forks. The alleged gunman, Errol Brent Bouldin, was found dead in his truck hours later about 35 miles north. Officials have not released a cause of death, but say h...
HELENA (AP) — Republican lawmakers don't have enough of a majority to override any potential gubernatorial vetoes, so they are considering putting some of the most controversial measures before Montana voters. Republican Sen. Dave Lewis of Helena tells Lee Newspapers of Montana, "When you've got a major policy issue and a governor that doesn't really believe in compromise, you've got no choice." A referendum to change a state law needs a simple majority in the House and the Senate and goes directly to the voters. Some p...
Montaba state employees OK 1st pay raise in 2 years HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Members of Montana's three state employee unions said Tuesday that they have approved a plan proposed by union negotiators and the Schweitzer administration that would give state employees their first pay raise in two years. The plan, which calls for a 1 percent increase in base pay effective in January 2012 and a 3 percent raise in January 2013, must be approved by the Republican-controlled legislature. Gov. Brian Schweitzer's budget office has said t...
DILLON - Montana Western football coach Rich Ferris says he is losing his coaching job after three seasons. Ferris told the Montana Standard he received a letter from the college Monday saying his employment as football coach was no longer needed. He said he has the option to resign and possibly keep some teaching duties, or be fired. Western athletic director Mark Durham confirmed that Ferris had been given some options. Western posted a 1-10 record this fall and Ferris' teams have gone 7-25 over the past three years....
BILLINGS (AP) — A more than 30-year employee of Montana State University and its campuses has been named chancellor of Montana State University-Billings. Rolf Groseth succeeds Ron Sexton, who retired in August after serving as chancellor at MSU-Billings since 1995. Groseth was named interim chancellor in July. Groseth served as acting chancellor at Montana State University-Northern for 18 months, prior to the selection of Frank Trocki as permanent chancellor last year. MSU President Waded Cruzado announced Groseth's a...
MATT VOLZ, Press HELENA — A federal appeals court declined a BNSF Railway Co. request to block a lawsuit filed by 152 Livingston residents who want the company to pay for the cleanup of toxic chemicals from a contaminated rail yard. The city and residents said in the lawsuit that huge quantities of diesel fuel and solvents have seeped into the soil, surface water and groundwater. BNSF had asked a federal judge to block the 2007 lawsuit filed in state district court, arguing the injunction was necessary to keep jurisdiction i...
It's a scenario many authors dream about: Their book becomes a smash movie. But novelist Walter Kirn a Montana resident and Minnesota native, is taking the pessimistic view as he watches the movie version of his book, "Up in the Air," soar to critical and box office success. "I'm a Minnesotan," Kirn says. "We dream too big, we're going to be humbled." Paramount's "Up in the Air" has pulled in $63.9 million in the United States in seven weeks and won raves for actor George Clooney as a slick ax-man racking up frequent-flier...
Fire chief: Malta blaze's cause may never be known MALTA, Mont. (AP) — The cause of a downtown blaze that destroyed a 95-year-old building and the five businesses it housed may never be known, Malta's fire chief said. Wednesday's fire on Front Street was believed to have started in the basement of the building, built in 1915. The fire burned so long and hot, and so much material fell into the basement, that finding the source of the fire may be impossible, Malta Volunteer Fire Chief Bill Rock said Thursday. "I don't think w...
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