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HELENA — Montana Lottery officials say a Glasgow man has claimed the $60,000 Montana Cash jackpot from the May 11 drawing. David Larsen bought his ticket at Gary and Leo's Fresh Foods in Havre. He says he plans to share some of his winnings with his daughters and pay bills with the rest. Meanwhile, two brothers-in-law from Kalispell claimed a $40,000 Powerball prize while a Billings woman claimed a $10,000 Powerball prize. Charlie Trinh and Thuan Huynh won $40,456 in the May 5 Powerball drawing with a ticket purchased at t...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sen. Charles Schumer says Homeland Security will begin tapping into Canadian military radar later this year to detect low-flying aircraft used to smuggle drugs from Canada into the United States. The New York Democrat chaired a hearing of the subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security in Washington Tuesday. Afterward, he told reporters that the Department of Homeland Security will begin integrating the Canadian radar feeds by November. The technology was used with success in Washington state f...
Havre City Council Monday night gave preliminary approval to a ban on cellphone use while driving, but not before several council members indicated they were having second thoughts. Councilman Andrew Brekke said several phone calls he received prompted him to change his vote on the issue. He joined council member Gerry Veis in voting against the proposal on first reading Monday night. Councilman Bob Kaul said he voted to pass the measure with reluctance, but he wasn't sure how he will vote when final approval is on the table...
Louise M. Mahns of Lewiston, Idaho, died at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Lewiston. She was 89 years old. Malcom's Brower-Wann Funeral Home is handling the arrangements....
Louise M. Mahns of Lewiston, Idaho, died at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Lewiston. She was 89 years old. Malcom's Brower-Wann Funeral Home is handling the arrangements....
Maureen (Brandt) Cicon, 66, died from breast cancer on Sunday, at Liberty Medical Center. Funeral services will be 11 a. m. Saturday, May 21, at Chester Assembly of God Church. Burial will be in Chester Cemetery, followed by a luncheon at the church. Arrangements are by Rockman Funeral Chapel of Chester. Maureen was born July 1, 1944, in Havre, Mont., to Loren & Florence Brandt. She grew up in Rudyard and graduated from high school in 1962. She married James Cicon Jr. in 1963. They lived in Chester, where James was injured...
Vickey Lynn Radke, 60, a retired beautician from Cut Bank and formerly from Havre, passed away Saturday, May 14, 2011, at her mother's home due to natural causes. Graveside services will be held at 3 p. m. Saturday, June 4, at the Crown Hill Cemetery in Cut Bank. Whitted Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Survivors include her mother, Virginia Reagan of Cut Bank; sister, Mary (Reagan) Fugle and her husband Richard Fugle of Wyoming; and the lights of her life, nephew, Jake, and niece, Trystin. She was preceded in...
Bonnie Jean Bachini, 90, of Havre, died Friday, May 13, 2011, at the Care and Comfort Home in Havre, Mont., of natural causes. Her funeral service will be 1 p. m. Friday, May 20, 2011, at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery. A fellowship luncheon will be held at the St. Jude Parish Center immediately after the graveside services. Memorial contributions in Bonnie's honor may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, the Care and Comfort Home or to a memorial of one's choice. Services and...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Fresno Chapter of Walleyes Unlimited member Clyde Doubek, right, helps Havre Middle School sixth-grader Kambi Bender put on a life jacket before going on a boat ride at Fresno Reservoir Friday morning during Walleyes and Devon Energy Corp.' s annual Kids Education Day. See Friday's Community page for more photographs of the Kids Education Day event....
DUBLIN — Sometimes words aren't necessary. That was the case Tuesday when Queen Elizabeth II placed a wreath in Dublin's Garden of Remembrance to honor the Irish rebels who lost their lives fighting for freedom — from Britain. The queen became the first British monarch to set foot in Dublin for a century. Her four-day visit is designed to show that the bitter enmity of Ireland's war of independence 90 years ago has been replaced by Anglo-Irish friendship, and that peace has become irreversible in the neighboring British ter...
Havre was the sight of the Northern B-C girls divisional tennis tournament. On Friday and Saturday, girls teams from Chinook, Fort Benton, Chester/J-I and Big Sandy battled it out with spots in this week's Class B-C state tennis tournament on the line. And the race for the team title was close. Chinook repeated as divisional champions, but the Hawks and Longhorns pushed the Beeters. Chinook scored 42 points to take the team title, while the Hawks were second with 36 and Fort Benton was third with 35. Chinook was led by the...
The men's league golf season is now and high gear, and soon it will be the ladies turn. The women will have a ladies league fun night on Thursday night starting at 5:30 p.m. at Prairie Farms Golf Course. The regular season for the ladies begins the following Thursday. Prairie Farms will also host a club demo day on Saturday. The chance to demo new and different clubs will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. Meanwhile, in men's league action at Prairie Farms, both nights beat the weather last week. On Tuesday night, Korb...
HELENA — Two Montana groups are trying to do what has only been done once in 18 years: block a bill by petition. One proposes to prevent sweeping changes to the state's medical marijuana law. The other wants to block a law that gives utilities the power of eminent domain. If they get signatures from 5 percent of the registered voters in 34 districts, a referendum will be held in the 2012 general election. If they get the signatures of 15 percent from 51 districts, they can suspend the bill from becoming law until that e...
BOZEMAN — A federal judge has put on hold a settlement that would require the government to consider greater protections for hundreds of imperiled species. Attorneys said Tuesday that U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered the Obama administration to resume negotiations with environmentalists over the deal. The Center for Biological Diversity objects to the deal, saying it is unenforceable and leaves out important species of animals and plants. The settlement has been embraced by other conservationists as a b...
BOZEMAN — A federal judge has put on hold a settlement that would require the government to consider greater protections for hundreds of imperiled species. Attorneys said Tuesday that U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered the Obama administration to resume negotiations with environmentalists over the deal. The Center for Biological Diversity objects to the deal, saying it is unenforceable and leaves out important species of animals and plants. The settlement has been embraced by other conservationists as a b...
The Hill County DUI Task Force made rounds on Saturday night, checking how many businesses that serve alcohol do so legally. Of the 22 businesses that were tested, three failed the test: - Oxford Sports Bar - Shanty Bar - McLean's Grocery According to a press release signed by Patrolman Jesse Eller, the police department will recommend that these businesses have their employees take a Responsible Alcohol Sales and Services class. When the same checks were done in October, Gabe Matosich, then assistant police chief and...
For Attorney General Steve Bullock, there are two main issues that threaten the people of Montana he was elected to protect and serve, prescription pill abuse and consumer fraud in email or telemarketing scams. To help raise awareness of these issues, Bullock has been touring the state, speaking to groups at the highest risks. "It's a great opportunity to raise awareness of some of the challenges that we've been facing, and I think communities all across the state have been facing, " Bullock said. The first half of his day...
After only 32 years in operation, one of the largest forts in the country closed its operation. Now, 100 years later, the group working to preserve and promote Fort Assinniboine is stepping forward with more improvements on its buildings and more activities at the fort, about six miles south of Havre, including a major event set for Saturday, June 4, including presentations by a local black powder shooting club. Work to preserve history Work now is being done to stabilize the stockade, or guard house, building at the fort,...
Eminent domain again hot topic at Legislature MATT GOURAS, Associated Press HELENA — Eminent domain is again a hot topic at the Legislature. Lawmakers are taking their first look at a bill from landowners and ranchers who feel they have been treated unfairly under eminent domain laws. The landowners argue those behind big projects, such as the Department of Transportation or utilities building transmission lines, can unfairly force them to take bad offers. State Rep. Kelly Flynn of Townsend pitched his proposed fix to the H...
Yellowstone bison get more room to roam in Montana The Associated Press BILLINGS — Montana officials are pushing ahead with a plan to let Yellowstone National Park bison roam more freely within a sprawling river basin formerly off limits to the disease-carrying animals because of livestock industry concerns. The move is aimed at ending a dispute on Yellowstone bison that has resulted in almost 4,000 of the animals being hauled to slaughter since 2000. It will allow at least some of the animals to carry out their natural m...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team had one great run left in it this season. Unfortunately, the 13th seeded Biola Eagles made sure it wasn't enough. The 19th-ranked Lights' season came to a heartbreaking end late Thursday night at the NAIA national tournament in Kansas City, via a 59-48 first-round loss to the 13th-ranked Eagles. The loss brought Northern's thrilling season to an end with a sparkling 24-9 overall record. MSU-N shrugged off a terrible start, in which the Lights trailed the Eagles 30-17...
Revenue estimate waivers in advance of vote Associated Press HELENA — Legislative budget analysts are estimating the state will have a little less money available for its two-year budget than previously anticipated. Analysts predict the state will have about $33 million less than they predicted a month ago. Most of that loss is due to tax law changes. But overall, the analysts say the state budget will have about $64 million more available to spend then the figure lawmakers have been working with. The House Taxation Committee...
HELENA — WhileMichael Dills and Blake Robertson may not have the pull of professional influence peddlers, the two student lobbyists from Montana State University said they have reason to hope the Senate will restore some of the $32 million cut from higher education budgets by the House. As the budget heads into the Senate Finance and Claims Committee, the two said three Republican senators — Alan Olson, R-Roundup, Taylor Brown, R-Huntley, and Ryan Zinke, R-Whitefish — have promised to help restore at least some of the money...
Laine Fitzpatrick and Roman Surber bowling in the very first shift of the No-Tap Tournament held on to win with a score of 1,623. They were followed by Lois Olk and Dale Borger of Glasgow with a 1,608; third place Donna Borger and Paul Koski of Glasgow 1,604; fourth place Denise Friede and Kyle Surber 1,594; fifth place Laci LaBuda of Big Sandy and Gary Rettig of Fort Benton 1,589. There were a total of 60 entries from Havre, Big Sandy, Harlem and Glasgow with ten places to be paid. Hi Line Lanes thanks everyone who...
The winter sports season has come to an end, but area athletes are still being honored and recognized for their efforts. In the District 9C, the Chinook Sugarbeeters got the most nods with four individuals earning all-conference honors and head coach Chris Daniel earning the always coveted, District 9C coach of the year. Senior forward Taylor Erskine, senior guard Lane Schmitt, senior forward Tyler Molyneaux and senior guard Chris Haider all grabbed all-conference honors for the Beeters. The Big Sandy Pioneers, Box Elder...
