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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court blocked a federal lawsuit Monday by states and conservation groups trying to force cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The court said that the authority to seek reductions in emissions rests with the Environmental Protection Agency, not the courts. The ruling was 8-0. EPA said in December that it will issue new regulations by next year concerning power plants' emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. The lawsuit targeted the five largest emitters of carbon dioxide i...
SINGAPORE — Internet minders voted Monday to allow virtually unlimited new domain names based on themes as varied as company brands, entertainment and political causes, in the system's biggest shake-up since it started 26 years ago. Groups able to pay the $185,000 application can petition next year for new updates to ".com" and ".net" with website suffixes using nearly any word in any language, including in Arabic, Chinese and other scripts, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers decided at a meeting in S...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday blocked a massive sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart on behalf of female employees in a decision that makes it harder to mount large-scale bias claims against the biggest U.S. companies. The justices all agreed that the lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. cannot proceed as a class action in its current form, reversing a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. By a 5-4 vote along ideological lines, the court said there too many women in too many j...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — "Jackass" cast member Ryan Dunn died early Monday of injuries sustained in a fiery car crash, and speed may have been a factor, police said. Dunn and a passenger in his 2007 Porsche died after the car left the roadway and burst into flames, West Goshen Township police said. The crash occurred near the Philadelphia suburb of West Chester. The 34-year-old Du Ryan Dunn n appeared on MTV shows "Jackass" and "Viva La Bam" and the three "Jackass" big-screen adaptations. He also was the star of his own MTV show,...
The road is always tough when it comes to the game of baseball. And it was especially tough for the Havre North Stars American Legion baseball team this past week. Last Tuesday saw the North Stars drop a Northern A doubleheader to the Great Falls Electrics in Great Falls, and, over the weekend, Havre went 1-4 at the prestigious Gallatin Valley Tournament in Three Forks. The North Stars started tournament play on Friday with games against Lewistown and Gallatin Valley. In the f...
For quite some time now, in the spring and in the fall, there has been a women's golf team at Montana State University-Northern. In just a few short months, the men will get their turn now too. Northern recently announced it has added men's golf to its list of varsity sports, and the new Lights' golf team, which will be headed up by current women's head coach Dave Boles, will begin play this coming fall. "It's something we've been trying to get done for a few years now,"...
The Havre High wrestling team hasn't seen much competition from the rest of the Class A this season, but this weekend the Blue Ponies will get their fill. Friday and Saturday the Central A Ponies will travel to Belgrade for the Class A Duals. Along with host Belgrade, the rest of the Class A will be in attendance, including Frenchtown, Corvallis, Polson, Glendive, Ronan, Laurel, Hardin, Sidney, Lewistown, Miles City, Libby, Columbia Falls, Dillon, Hamilton, Anaconda, Whitefish, Livingston, Billings Central, Butte Central and...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Bing-N-Bob's Chase Smith swings at a pitch during the HYBA A-League championship baseball game held Saturday night at Lions Field in Havre. Bing-N-Bob's fought their way through the loser-out bracket to reach the title game. For more on the A-League tournament, see Tuesday's Havre Daily News sports section. It's hard to believe, but another season of A-League baseball in Havre is now in the books. On Saturday evening at Lions Park in Havre, the...
With President Barack Obama declaring on Friday a major national disaster in Montana due to the widespread flooding, officials in the region are preparing for the next phase — to work with the federal disaster agency to evaluate the damage, list projects and prepare worksheets to get help paying for those projects. Joe Parenteau, Hill County disaster and emergency services coordinator, said today the Federal Emergency Management Agency will assemble teams to come to each county and reservation included in the disaster d...
A former candidate in the 2010 Rocky Boy primary election will finally get his day in court. A Chippewa Cree Tribe special judge has said oral arguments will be heard at 10 a. m. July 8 for Stacey Small's lawsuit saying procedures, including background checks, had not been properly followed by the tribe's election committee. Judge Thomas Weathers issued an order Thursday setting deadlines for the defendants to refile a motion to dismiss the case, the plaintiffs to file a response and the defendants to file a reply. Small and...
AP Photo/Shelby Promoter/Chris Muller Authorities investigate at the scene of a school bus accident Friday near Devon. The bus carrying about 40 people returning from a church camp flipped on its side Friday on U.S. Highway 2, injuring several Harlem area students and pastor Jeremey Kluck of the Harlem Assembly of God, none of them seriously, authorities said. As news spread this weekend of a Harlem Public School district bus, carrying about 40 people from an Assemblies of God church camp in Hungry Horse, rolling over near...
Alice Shelden Alice Shelden passed away on June 7, at Northern Montana Care Center in Havre, Mont. of natural causes. Cremation has taken place, and no services are planned at this time. A celebration of Alice's life will be held later this summer. Memorials may be sent to Northern Montana Care Center. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home of Havre has been entrusted with the arrangements. Alice was born on Dec. 2, 1919, on the family homestead near Glasgow, Mont. She was one of six children born to William and Louisa (Gunst) Beck....
Gary Edmund Porter Gary Edmund Porter, a locomotive engineer, died in Benefis hospital in Great Falls on Wednesday evening after collapsing at the railroad depot in Shelby on Sunday morning. He was born on July 4, 1951, in Adelaide, South Australia. As a child, he lived in Sandpoint, Idaho, and graduated from Whitefish High School in 1969. He attended the University of Montana, majoring in English and creative writing. He worked for the Great Northern, Burlington Northern and Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroads in Montana...
HELENA — An attorney for a medical marijuana industry group is asking a judge to block a new Montana law eliminating the sale of medical pot before it takes effect next month. James Goetz, attorney for the Montana Cannabis Industry Association, told Helena District Judge James Reynolds Monday that the law is unconstitutional. Assistant attorney general Jim Molloy defended the new law, saying it is in line with what voters intended when they authorized medical marijuana use in 2004. Molloy says the plaintiffs are trying to p...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is entering a $40 million dispute between an energy company and Montana that could turn on the experiences of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The justices said Monday they will hear an appeal from PPL Montana of a state court decision ordering the company to pay $40 million in rent for placing its hydroelectric dams in riverbeds owned by the state. The ownership of the waterways turns on whether they were navigable when Montana became a state in 1889. Both the company and the state base part o...
HELENA — A new Montana law eliminating medical marijuana sales and implementing strict checks to verify a patient's condition is unconstitutional and must be blocked before it takes effect next month, an attorney for an industry group suing the state argued Monday. The law passed by state lawmakers earlier this year will effectively put commercial growers in Montana out of business by barring pot providers from making a profit and limiting them to a maximum of three patients. It also places additional checks on conditions f...
The 2011 Montana Legislature is over. House Bill 198, the eminent domain bill, passed and is now law. The bill did NOT expand the traditional scope of eminent domain in Montana. Since Montana's early days, eminent domain has been an essential (but rarely used) tool to build important infrastructure. HB 198 simply clarified that this would still be the case in the future. HB 198 faced strenuous opposition from groups in north-central and southwestern Montana attempting to obstruct construction of the Montana Alberta Tie...
In this wide, spectacular and beautiful world that gives us oceans, the Grand Canyon, wild asparagus, sunsets, tornadoes and dark chocolate, what's up with fungus? Really. It's a bizarre set of microorganisms ... and not-so-micro organisms. That athlete's foot fungus you've been scratching since high school? It's a kissing cousin to the mushrooms you buy at the grocery store, even the truffle mushroom that sells for $1,200 a pound at finer restaurants. Pam Burke The mold on...
Editor: On behalf of the Havre Food Bank and the people we serve, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the U.S. Postal Service's Havre letter carriers for sponsoring the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive this past Saturday. Nearly 4,000 pounds of nonperishable food was collected and delivered to the food bank thanks to the efforts of our local postal workers. A record number of volunteers of all ages assembled at the post office making the process of collecting and sorting the food go quickly and smoothly. For the first...
Editor: During National Police Week, I want to thank the policemen of the Havre Police Department for helping me over the years when necessary. As an elderly, single citizen, it has been important for me to have a place to turn to for help and protection, in spite of the very dangerous job and busy lives they already have. God bless every one of them! Ilsa C. Wagner Havre...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was released from the custody of the city Department of Correction shortly after 5 p.m. and was handed over to the security firm managing his house arrest. The onetime French presidential candidate posted $1 million cash and $5 million bond Friday, and a judge signed off on an order clearing him to be released from the Rikers Island jail. AP Photo/John Minchillo William Taylor, attorney for former IMF Head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, speaks to the media outside New York Criminal Court, Friday in New York....
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a blunt display of differences, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the idea of using his country's 1967 boundaries as the basis for a neighboring Palestinian state on Friday, declaring his objections face-to-face to President Barack Obama who had raised the idea just 24 hours earlier in an effort to revive stalled Mideast peace talks. Though the two leaders, meeting in the Oval Office, found cordial and predictable agreement on the other central element that Obama outlined in his M...
HELENA — The board of the state's largest workers' compensation insurer cut its rates by 20 percent on Friday, a move that some hope will help the business community and encourage more job creation and higher wages. The 7-0 vote by the Montana State Fund board (MSF) comes on the heels of House Bill 334, a massive workers' compensation reform package passed in the 2011 legislative session. Although it's workers' compensation costs are going down, Montana has the highest workers' compensation rates in the country. And l...
HELENA — Federal enforcement agents raided a Helena medical marijuana provider on Friday, the latest development in a continuing crackdown on pot distributors in the state. Paul Schmidt, the owner of Sleeping Giant Caregivers, was out of town Friday afternoon, but confirmed to The Associated Press in a brief telephone interview that agents were at his marijuana operation on the eastern edge of Helena. A search and seizure warrant signed Thursday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah Lynch of Missoula authorized federal agents t...
It has come down to this. For the Havre High School softball program it has come down to one last weekend, four more games and the hopes of ending the season on a high note. The young Central A Blue Ponies' squad will not make the trip to state this year, but their season is not over. Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Havre High's Andrea Nault runs the bases during a Central A girls softball game earlier this month in Havre. The Blue Ponies wrap up their 2011 season with four games over the next two days in Laurel. Today and...
