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Editor: Regarding Zach White's article, "GOP points to violations in Kaul's council race funding, " in the Sept. 15 Havre Daily News: The state of Montana candidate forms mentioned in this story were incorrectly referred to as campaign finance documents. The correct name of the document is "Form C-1-A Statement of Candidate. " Filing this document is mandatory for county and municipal candidates. The C-1-A requires the candidate's name, address and, if applicable, the name of the bank at which you intend to have the campaign...
The power was out sporadically across Havre this evening. Parts of town experienced brownout conditions after a powerline between the Fort Assiniboine substation and the one in Highland Park went down this evening. Calls first starting coming in to the Havre Police Department about electricity troubles just after 5 p.m. this evening. A Northwestern Energy spokesperson said power should have been restored to everyone in town by 6:40 p.m. Several local businesses - including Pizza Hut, Gary and Leo's and Wells Fargo -...
WINIFRED — The head of the federal Bureau of Land Management returned to Montana on Monday with a message similar to the one he delivered to ranchers a year ago: No new national monuments. As part of a tour of rural communities across the West, BLM director Bob Abbey met with about 20 ranchers still upset over the creation of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument by former President Bill Clinton more than a decade ago. AP Photo/Matthew Brown Bureau of Land Management Director Bob Abbey listens to Gary Slagel w...
Friday night, inside the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse was volleyball at its very best. It was excitement at a fever pitch. It was sports entertainment at its highest value. It was fun, it was loud and it was thrilling. But to the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team, Friday night's homecoming win over the 25th-ranked University of Gr Northern's Paige Richardson (left) goes up for a ball during Friday night's Frontier Conference volleyball match in Havre. After their...
The Montana State University-Northern Lights' stay in the NAIA Top 25 Coaches Poll lasted just one week. But the Lights are still in the hunt for a national ranking. After falling at home 48-29 to then 12th-ranked Eastern Oregon, the Lights dropped out of the Top 25, but still received eight votes in this week's poll. Northern is at 2-1 in the Frontier Conference and tied with Rocky Mountain College and Carroll College in the Frontier Conference standings. EOU, Carroll and...
Hi-Line football continues to move forward and find success this season, as four local teams were able to record a victory this weekend. After a tough 58-21 loss last weekend to Savage, the Class C 6-Man Big Sandy Pioneers got back on track Friday night. Hosting the No. 3 Stanford-Geyser Wolverines, the unranked Pioneers bounced back into the win column. The Pioneers put on a show for the home fans and grabbed a 42-16 win, increasing their record to 2-1 in the meantime. Trevore Lackner had another monster game for the...
It was a busy week of high school volleyball along the Hi-Line, and there were plenty of intriguing matches in the area. Tuesday night saw a pair of big Hi-Line rivalries, including in Rudyard where the Chester/J-I Hawks knocked off the North Stars Knights in a five-set thriller. The Hawks dropped the first game 22-25, but won the next two by scores of 25-15 and 25-12. However, the Knights won the fourth set to force a decisive fifth game and where Hawks prevailed 15-7. Kate G...
AP Photo/Press TV, File In this Feb. 6 file photo, U.S. hikers Shane Bauer, left, and Josh Fattal, attend their trail at the Tehran Revolutionary Court, Iran. The website of Iran's state TV reported Saturdaythat two American hikers held in Iran have been sentenced to 8 years in jail each. ican men arrested more than two years ago while hiking along the Iraq-Iran border have been sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage and illegally entering Iran, state TV reported Saturday. The announcement appeared to dash hopes...
HELENA (AP) — A single-engine plane that crashed and killed two people in eastern Montana was conducting a prairie-dog survey for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, an agency spokesman said Friday. The Piper PA-18 Super Cub with two people on board took off from Miles City on Thursday morning and crashed in a rugged, remote area near the small community of Vananda, bursting into flames after impact. Rosebud County Sheriff Randy Allies said the men killed in the crash Thursday were 39-year-old pilot Chad H. Cyrus and 4...
HELENA (AP) — A Bozeman nonprofit group has filed a lawsuit to find out additional information about the salaries and compensation for all 13,000 Montana governmental employees. The Montana Policy Institute, a Bozeman-based think tank that advocates government transparency, in its lawsuit filed last week in District Court in Helena contends that the state Department of Administration did not provide it with the workers' actual compensation, including bonuses and overtime. "We want to know what each state employee made, w...
KALISPELL (AP) — A 24-year-old Kalispell woman who police say fractured the skull of a 7-month-old girl by dropping and then shaking her has been charged with assault. The Daily Inter Lake reports (http://bit.ly/q03Bw4 ) that Kimberly Butler was arrested Wednesday and charged with aggravated assault, assault on a minor and criminal endangerment. She was being held at the Flathead County Detention Center with bail set at $40,000. Authorities say a caller alerted the Kalispell Police on June 5. According to court documents, B...
The Montana Highway Patrol says two North Dakota men have died in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 2 west of Wolf Point in northeastern Montana. Police say the two men, ages 35 and 56, were in the backseat of a westbound Chevrolet Suburban that collided late Friday with a Dodge pickup that veered into the westbound lane. Police tell the Billings Gazette that the driver of the Suburban tried to avoid the collision by swerving into the eastbound land, but the driver of the pickup got back into the eastbound lane at the last...
TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyan rebels said they launched their first attack on Tripoli in coordination with NATO late Saturday, and Associated Press reporters heard unusually heavy gunfire and explosions in the capital. The fighting erupted just hours after opposition fighters captured the key city of Zawiya nearby. Gunbattles and mortar rounds were heard clearly at the hotel where foreign correspondents stay in Tripoli. NATO aircraft made heavy bombing runs after nightfall, with loud explosions booming across the city. AP P...
LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron dragged his political foes into Britain's phone-hacking scandal Wednesday, as he sought to distance himself from his former aide at the heart of the allegations and denied that his staff had tried to thwart police investigations. Cameron, who flew back from Africa early to address the emergency session of Parliament, defended his decision to hire former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as his communications chief, saying his work in government had been untarnished. AP Photo/Kirsty W...
HELENA — A debt collection agency filed negative credit reports against more than 8,000 Montana residents in an attempt to recover late fees they supposedly owed the bankrupt Movie Gallery Inc. and Hollywood Video rental stores, a state prosecutor said. The volume of negative credit reports filed by National Credit Solutions was discovered by the state Department of Justice as part of a legal settlement last month between the state and the Oklahoma-based company, Chief of Consumer Protection James Molloy said Tuesday. In e...
Havre High track senior-to-be Sammy Evans had a busy weekend last weekend. Evans competed in multiple events at the annual Big Sky State Games in Billings, and she came away with a pair of golf medals from the prestigious summer games. In track and field, Evans captured a pair of golds in the 16-18 year-old division. She won the gold in the high jump by clearing 4-10, and she also went on to win the gold in the triple jump with a leap of over 36-4. Evans also competed with a...
Vehicles are slammed into a dirt wall during the annual Havre Jaycees Demolition Derby at the Great Northern Fair. last summer. The derby closes out the fair, but sporting events run all week, beginning tonight with the annual junior rodeo. Havre and the Hi-Line is busy when it comes to summer sports. There's lots of baseball and softball, golf, fishing, tennis and all of the sports which are associated with warm, sunny days. But when the Great Northern Fair rolls around each...
An equipment failure knocked out electricity for North Havre this morning, according to NorthWestern Energy. Around 6:40 this morning, power for about 300 customers in North Havre lost power for about an hour-and-a-half. A crew repaired the failed equipment and restored power at about 8 a. m. According to Michelle Sullivan with NorthWestern Energy, they don't know what caused the failure affecting customers near Shepherd Road....
Montana's lone U. S. Rep. Denny Rehberg Tuesday praised the passage of a deficit-reduction bill that he co-sponsored, but Democratic campaign organizations took a different view. Rehberg, a Republican who is facing Democratic U. S. Sen. Jon Tester in the 2012 senate elections, was one of 229 Republicans who passed the bill called "Cut, Cap and Balance" in the U. S. House of Representatives Tuesday. The Associated Press reports that nine Republicans voted against the bill and five Democrats in favor in the 234-190 vote. The...
The recently appointed head of a division of U. S. Customs and Border Protection asked local leaders in Havre Tuesday what the agency can do better to help and be part of the community. Eric Odden, acting director of the office of State, Local and Tribal Liaison of U. S. Customs and Border Protection, met with a cross section of local officials and community leaders to talk about how agents and officers from the agency can be a productive part of the community, and how they can interact with local governments and law...
Courtesy photo/Oregon State University This photo shows a cow parsnip plant, which is common across most of North America and widespread in Beaver Creek Park. It is related to the dangerous giant hogweed, but is harmless to the touch. The rumors of an aggressive and dangerous weed invading Montana and Beaver Creek Park are unfounded. Terry Turner, Hill County Weed District supervisor, said a week-and-a-half ago that he had received a call reporting a sighting of what could be giant hogweed in the Havre Police Protective...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Bob Doney judges single flowers in the open class and school exhibits at the Community Center this morning at the Great Northern Fairgrounds. The Great Northern Fair begins today with the carnival and food stands opening at noon. The open class and school exhibits will be open for the public to view from noon to 9 p.m. today through Saturday and from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. After days of final preparation, including some last-minute setup, the Great Northern Fair is ready for five days of...
WASHINGTON— President Barack Obama will announce the critical next steps in America's decade-long war in Afghanistan on Wednesday, outlining both a plan to start bringing thousands of U.S. troops home next month and a broader withdrawal blueprint aimed at giving Afghans control of their own security in 2014. But even as Obama finalizes those plans, there are deep divisions in his administration, with military leaders favoring only a gradual reduction in troops but other advisers advocating a significant decrease in the coming...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has approved a $3.4 billion settlement over mismanaged Indian royalties that represents the largest claim ever made against the U.S. government. The plaintiffs, including Elouise Cobell of Montana, claimed in the 15-year-old suit that the individual accounts of hundreds of thousands of Indians were mismanaged by the government for more than a century, costing them billions of dollars in oil, timber and other royalties. The two sides settled in 2009 after years of court battles. Congress a...
HELENA — Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is unhappy with federal land managers over a land conservation proposal he says was bungled. The governor met Monday with federal officials from several agencies who were pitching the America's Great Outdoors Initiative. Schweitzer said he is interested in the conservation plan. But he's skeptical about its success, given other lingering land management problems. Schweitzer said he wants Yellowstone National Park to allow bison hunting. He also wants land managers to seriously look at h...
