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  • CBP settles with women in lawsuit on rights violations in Havre

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 25, 2020

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reached an out-of-court settlement with two women who said their Constitutional rights were violated when a Border Patrol agent detained and questioned them when he heard them speaking Spanish in a Havre convenience store. The monetary amount of the settlement was not released. Ana Suda and Martha "Mimi" Hernandez filed a lawsuit alleging their their Fourth and Fifth amendment rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution were violated by...

  • CBP settles in Havre rights violation lawsuit

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 24, 2020

    American Civil Liberties Union announced today that the federal government settled a lawsuit filed by two Havre women who said they were racially profiled and wrongly detained by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in Havre. A release issued by ACLU said sisters Ana Suda and Martha "Mimi" Hernandez reached a settlement in their lawsuit against the Trump administration. The plaintiffs said that CBP Agent Paul O'Neal stopped them while they were waiting in line at a...

  • Daines urges Montanans to get COVID vaccination when available

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 19, 2020

    U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., said Wednesday that he was one of the people who participated in a trial of the vaccine pharmaceutical company Pfizer says appears to be 95 percent effective in preventing COVID-19, and he encourages everyone to get the vaccination if it is approved and becomes available. Daines said part of the reason he wanted to be part of the test is to encourage all Montanans to get vaccinated once it is available. "My goal in all of this is to help build...

  • Daines reveals was part of vaccine test

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 18, 2020

    U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., said today he was one of the people who participated in a trial of the vaccine pharmaceutical company Pfizer says appears to be 95 percent effective in preventing COVID-19, and he encourages everyone to get the vaccination if it is approved and becomes available. Daines said part of the reason he wanted to be part of the test is to encourage all Montanans to get vaccinated once it is available. He said other than slight soreness in his arm,...

  • HRDC offering help on power bills with Energy Share

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 18, 2020

    With colder weather already hitting and more expected in the coming months, officials are telling people about programs that could help them with their power bills. Particularly in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and layoffs, quarantines and isolation orders, some people are having trouble making ends meet and power bills is one of the problems for them. A release said most people may not think twice when turning up the furnace to deal with colder weather, but 15 percent — three out of 20 people someone might see on the roa...

  • Box Elder man pleads not guilty to murder charge

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 18, 2020

    Reuben Charles Blackwolf of Box Elder, 44, has pleaded not guilty in federal court in Billings to charges of second-degree murder and assault resulting in serious bodily injury. A jury trial before Judge Susan Watters is set for Jan. 11 in federal court in Billings. Blackwolf is accused of killing a person, not named in the court document, Aug. 10 near Lame Deer on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation and assaulted another person, resulting in serious bodily injury. No additional information was available in the redacted...

  • Name released of Butte woman killed when struck by train

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 16, 2020

    Blaine County Sheriff and Coroner John Colby has released the name of a Butte woman, who, along with her dog, was killed about 4:45 p.m. Saturday when they were struck by a BNSF Railway freight train just east of Chinook near Lodge Creek. Irina Smith, 41, was the person struck by the train Saturday. A release from the sheriff’s office said its dispatchers received a call from BNSF about 4:48 p.m. Saturday reporting the woman had been struck. About the same time, it said, dispatch received a call from the woman’s husband als...

  • St. Jude Thaddeus School puts Junior High to remote learning

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 16, 2020

    St. Jude Thaddeus School put out a call today for parents of six through eighth grade students to pick up their children at their earliest convenience as the junior high at the school goes into remote learning through Thanksgiving. A message from Principal Mike Haugen posted on Facebook said a person in the junior high has tested positive for COVID-19 and the school will use the time of remote learning to thoroughly sanitize the junior high classrooms. He said in the message... Full story

  • State sets new record in daily COVID-19 confirmations

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 11, 2020

    Although the number of daily new COVID-19 cases has dropped some in Hill and Blaine counties following a major surge in the fall, the numbers continue to rise in the state. Montana’s COVID-19 response tracking map in its update Tuesday listed 1,101 new cases, the highest number of one-day cases to date. The update for today was not available by printing deadline this morning. The state total since the disease was first confirmed in Montana in March was at 41,151 with 16,816 active cases, 487 active hospitalizations and 462 de...

  • Events set Wednesday to commemorate Veterans Day

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 10, 2020

    Despite the cold and snow and pandemic, services and ceremonies are still happening Wednesday, Veterans Day, live and online, to honor people who have served. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 497 Quartermaster Scott Prindiville said a ceremony will start at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the VFW Memorial on the 300 Block of First Street next to Havre’s Town Square. Prindiville said it will be a short ceremony, with plans including a benediction, singing of the national anthem, a three-volley salute by the Veterans Honor Guard and the p...

  • Biden wins presidency

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 9, 2020

    After an extra four days of counting - and ballots still to be counted and some states to be declared - Democrat Joe Biden was projected Saturday morning to win the next presidency of the United States. By 9:30 a.m. Mountain Time, news outlets began declaring Pennsylvania for Biden, with its 20 Electoral College votes putting him over the 270 electoral vote threshold to defeat Republican President Donald Trump in his bid for re-election. Trump has yet to concede the race, sayi...

  • Snow hits the area with a vengeance

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 9, 2020

    Snowfall was a little later than predicted in this part of north-central Montana, but when it started to fall Saturday night it fell with a vengeance, leading to major road and street issues and closing most schools in the region. The snowfall had stopped by the time the sun came up, but the region - and the state - was buried in snow over the two-day snowfall. And schools in the region closed and limited services, with Havre going to its remote learning day today and...

  • Biden wins presidency

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 7, 2020

    Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden is projected to have won the 2020 U.S. presidential election. With Pennsylvania called for Biden, he had 273 votes in the Electoral College, with 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the race. With the count by The Associated Press count so far, Republican President Donald Trump has 214 Electoral College votes. The Associated Press called Arizona for Biden early, with most media outlets still waiting to call that race. After...

  • City warns Havre residents to be ready for snow and snow removal

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 6, 2020

    Havre Public Works has told residents that, with the amount of snow expected this weekend, Havre city crews will be working to plow and remove snow around the city and they need the help of residents. “Please try to have your car off the emergency snow routes during the time of plowing,” a release from Havre Public Works said. “Cars will get plowed in.” People can find the map of the emergency snow routes online at http://www.ci.havre.mt.us . A winter storm watch is in effect from Saturday morning for much of the western half...

  • Who is president hangs on votes still being counted

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 5, 2020

    Two days after the election, who will be president still is unknown, hanging on votes still being counted in five states. In Montana, 96.23 percent of the votes are counted and Republicans took a clean sweep in the statewide and federal elections, including U.S. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., defeating Democratic Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney 54 percent to 42 percent with the votes counted. Republican State Auditor Matt Rosendale defeated former state Rep. Kathleen Williams, D-Bozeman, 56...

  • Hill, Windy Boy, Strissel win, Havre charter government and ambulance levy pass

    Tim Leeds - Grant Evans - Patrick Johnston|Updated Nov 4, 2020

    With the report on the final Hill County precinct counted at 3:02 a.m. today, the unofficial count for the 2020 election saw Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, retain his seat, Democrat Jacob "Jake" Strissel win a vacant seat on the Hill County Commission and Republican Ed Hill win the seat in Montana House District 28. The election also saw Havre voters approve switching the city to a charter form of government and county voters outside of Havre approve a mill levy...

  • More local COVID-19 cases, deaths reported

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 2, 2020

    With the state topping 33,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases Sunday including a record-breaking 1,063 new cases listed Friday, more COVID-19 cases and COVID-19-related deaths continue to be confirmed in the area, with the Hill County Board of Health imposing some new restrictions starting Wednesday. The Hill County Health Department tracked the average number of new cases per day last week, with the order pre-approved if the goal of averaging 50 cases a day per 100,000 people — a little more than eight per day in Hill County — nea...

  • Montana records 1,063 new COVID confirmations, more local cases confirmed

    Tim Leeds|Updated Oct 30, 2020

    Editor's note: This version corrects that the Harlem junior-senior high school building is closed today and the Harlem Elementary School building remained open. Montana set a new high today for one-day totals in new COVID-19 cases, and more cases were confirmed in Chinook's Sweet Home, Chinook High School, Harlem Elementary School and Havre Public Schools. The state COVID-19 response tracking map update this morning listed 1,063 new cases confirmed, the highest daily total... Full story

  • Sweet Home reports cases, COVID-19-related death

    Tim Leeds|Updated Oct 29, 2020

    Sweet Home in Chinook reported Wednesday it has confirmed cases of COVID-19 and one COVID-19-related death in the home. A post on the Sweet Home Facebook page Wednesday evening said three residents and three staff members had been confirmed with COVID-19 and the one death. The positive residents who remain at Sweet Home are being isolated in one area of the building; staff who are positive are home isolating, the post said. Watch for more on this and other local COVID-19 news...

  • More COVID cases, deaths in area

    Tim Leeds|Updated Oct 27, 2020

    Multiple new cases of COVID-19 and COVID-19-related deaths have been reported in the area, including cases in people associated with Havre Public Schools that is in distanced learning to try to reduce the spread of the virus. Hill County reported three new COVID-19-related deaths Friday and another Sunday. Blaine County reported two more COVID-19-related deaths Saturday. That brings the total number of deaths in Hill County to 22 and to five in Blaine County. The total number of cases in Hill County grew from 670 Friday...

  • Local COVID-19 cases, including related to Havre schools, and COVID-19-related deaths continue to increase

    Tim Leeds|Updated Oct 25, 2020

    The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and COVID-19-related deaths continue to rise in the state, with more cases including cases related to Havre Public Schools and more deaths reported in this part of north-central Montana. The reports come as Gov. Steve Bullock announced an existing state form has been updated for people to use to report violations of COVID-19 directives. Hill County Health Department reported three new COVID-19-related deaths Friday, bringing the total in... Full story

  • Three more local COVID-19- related deaths confirmed

    Tim Leeds|Updated Oct 15, 2020

    Hill County Health Department reported Wednesday evening that three more COVID-19-related deaths were confirmed in the county as the state had a new record in new COVID-19 cases confirmed at 735. That brings Hill County’s death toll from the pandemic to 10 cases. The only other COVID-19-related deaths in this region so far are two confirmed in Blaine County. Hill County, and Liberty County, each had one case confirmed in March and no new cases were confirmed there or in Blaine or Chouteau counties until new cases were c...

  • More COVID-19 deaths and cases hit area

    Tim Leeds|Updated Oct 12, 2020

    The statewide surge in COVID-19 continues to hit this area as well, with four new deaths reported, more cases confirmed in Havre schools and a Havre Head Start facility closing for a week. Blaine County confirmed Friday its first COVID-19-related death and its second death Sunday, and Hill County confirmed its sixth and seventh deaths Saturday. This comes as the state and local health officials are urging people to take precautions to slow the spread of the virus that causes the disease, with Hill County Health Officer Kim... Full story

  • Death in Blaine County resident, more COVID-19 cases reported

    Tim Leeds|Updated Oct 11, 2020

    Blaine County Health Department has reported the first COVID-19-related death in a county resident, as more cases continue being confirmed in the region and across the state and a new case was confirmed in the Havre school district. More lockdowns are occurring in the area, increased restrictions are being considered and more businesses are closing down temporarily due to the pandemic. The Blaine County Health Department reported Friday evening one of the Blaine County... Full story

  • Havre schools holding emergency board meeting today, Harlem Monday

    Tim Leeds|Updated Oct 9, 2020

    With the increase of cases around the state and in Hill, Chouteau, Blaine and Liberty county cases are being found in the schools as well, which is causing some to shift their plans, including Havre schools holding an emergency board meeting this afternoon and the Fort Belknap Indian Community asking Harlem schools canceling activities, as Hill County reported a record number of new cases. Hill County Health Department reported Thursday evening that 34 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the county. That puts the total in... Full story

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