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Havre Daily News/Tim Leeds Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Miller of Laurel, center, talks with Havre vendor Gary Glock and Rep. Wendy Warburton, R-Havre, Saturday in the Commercial Building at the Great Northern Fair. A state-level candidate came to Havre over the weekend, making his case to Great Northern Fair-goers why he should be the next governor of the state. Republican Ken Miller of Laurel was at the fair Saturday, saying he thinks it is his obligation to run for the top seat in the state. "The bottom line is,...
Montana's U. S. lawmakers were sparring Friday after the Senate shot down a budget and debt ceiling proposal passed by the House, with the state's sole representative calling the Senate action gamesmanship and one senator saying the bill even being proposed was "incredible. " The issue was the House bill known as Cut, Cap and Balance, which would have cut spending, set the national spending at a maximum of 18 percent of the gross domestic product, and required Congress to send a balanced budget amendment to the states in...
Havre Daily News/Daniel Horton Rick Johnson races down the track in his Chevrolet "Bad Bowtie" at the Great Northern Fairs' Pro West professional truck pull Saturday night in Havre. In this run, Johnson pulled the sled 452.01 feet, good enough for first place in the 4WD category. For more on the truck pulls at the Great Northern Fair, see Tuesday's Havre Daily News. With the end of this year's Great Northern Fair, most people are still recovering from the multitude of deep-fried indulgences, while organizers and officials...
WASHINGTON — In a blunt challenge to President Barack Obama, House Republicans drafted legislation Monday to avert a potentially devastating Aug. 2 government default — but along lines the White House has already dismissed. U.S. and world financial markets shrugged off the uncertainty. "This is a city where compromise is becoming a dirty word," Obama lamented as congressional leaders groped for a way out of a looming crisis. In stinging remarks a short while later on the Senate floor, the Republican leader, Mitch McC...
AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi Money traders work under a screen flashing the U.S. dollar against the Japanese yen at a foreign exchange market in Tokyo. Markets around the world were watching nervously as congressional Democrats and Republicans struggled through another day of difficult talks but failed to agree on cutting U.S. spending and raising the debt limit, a necessary measure to prevent an unprecedented Aug. 2 default. WASHINGTON — Democratic and Republican congressional leaders shopped competing debt-crisis solutions a...
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer accused congressional Republicans on Saturday night of risking the nation's credit status during deadlocked negotiations to raise the debt ceiling as he helped Arkansas Democrats raise money for a tough election battle next year. The Democratic governor joined Arkansas' top Democrats in taking aim at the GOP-led Congress over the debt limit talks. Congressional leaders have struggled in urgent, weekend-long talks to avert an unprecedented government default. "Their p...
A Republican-leaning independent fundraising group announced Friday it would launch a $20 million television campaign criticizing President Barack Obama's handling of the economy. The ads, produced and financed by Crossroads GPS, will begin running Monday in 10 states, many of which are presidential battlegrounds. Spokesman Jonathan Collegio said the group would spend $5 million initially on cable television nationwide and on broadcast TV in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, New Mexico,...
MINOT, N.D — The Souris River neared its crest Saturday in Minot, where city officials hoped to ride out the high water without losing more than the thousands of homes already damaged by flooding. The river had been expected to peak Saturday evening at some 8½ feet above major flood stage, but it appeared to be leveling off hours earlier as it approached 6½ feet over that mark. Damage was already widespread, with Mayor Curt Zimbelman reporting more than 4,000 homes had been flooded in an evacuation zone of neighborhoods nea...
NEW YORK — Many obstacles still lie ahead for supporters of same-sex marriage, and eventually they will need Congress or the Supreme Court to embrace their goal. For the moment, though, they are jubilantly channeling the lyrics of "New York, New York." "Now that we've made it here, we'll make it everywhere," said prominent activist Evan Wolfson, who took up the cause of marriage equality as a law student three decades ago. With a historic vote by its Legislature late Friday, New York became the sixth — and by far the mos...
MISSOULA (AP) — An education group says Montana families spend a higher percentage of their household income sending their children to public, in-state colleges and universities than families in other Western states. The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education reports that tuition and fees to attend a two-year college in Montana costs 8.1 percent of a family's median household income, compared with a regional average of 5.9 percent. At the state's four-year universities, excluding the University of Montana and M...
The Havre High wrestling team took care of business on Tuesday night at the Havre High gymnasium. The Ponies defeated Class AA CMR 52-27 in dual action. HHS will return to the mat on Friday for duals against Class B-C powers Conrad and Forsyth, and it will also be senior night. For full coverage, see Monday's Havre Daily News....
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Raymond "Jake" Parker Jr., left, former Chippewa Cree tribal chairman, leaves the federal courthouse in Great Falls Tuesday afternoon after pleading guilty to embezzling from the tribe. Raymond "Jake" Parker Jr. is out without bail to await sentencing for stealing from the Chippewa Cree Tribe at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, with the judge and both lawyers in the case agreeing that the former tribal council chair is not a flight risk. Parker, who resigned as tribal council chair on Monday,...
TUCSON, Ariz. — The man accused of wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a deadly rampage lowered his head to within inches of the courtroom table Wednesday. When he lifted it, he began yelling, angry and loud. Federal marshals had to drag Jared Lee Loughner out of the packed federal courtroom. Minutes later, he was in a nearby room and, over a closed-circuit TV, could watch as U.S. District Judge Larry Burns declared him incompetent to stand trial. AP Photo/Bill Robles U.S. District Judge Larry A. Burns during a competency hea...
CROW AGENCY — Crow tribal officials sent search teams Wednesday to remote parts of their reservation to look for people stranded by flooding, as cities and towns across Montana tried to stave off rivers and streams spilling from their banks. Flood waters in hard-hit southeastern Montana have receded enough for Crow reservation residents to return to find dozens of homes damaged by the flooded Little Bighorn River. AP Photo/Matthew Brown A flooded house and pickup near the Little Bighorn River in Crow Agency, Mont. are s...
Even torrential rains and a soggy pitch can't slow the Hi-Line United soccer team down. This past Saturday, the United won a pair of U19 boys home games, sweeping Lewistown and Polson at the Havre High soccer fields. The first game was against Lewistown and the United won 2-1. Logan pike got the first goal on a penalty kick and Miguel Ley got the clinching goal on a corner kick with the assist from Ben Wiken. Taran Huestis had 2 saves and only 1 goal allowed. 10 other shots on goal were made . In the second game against...
Blue Pony girls take one final shot in tennis The Havre High girls tennis team has seen its most successful run in school history the last decade. In fact, when the Blue Ponies finished fourth at the Class A state meet a year ago in Billings, it was their lowest finish in the last eight years. And while graduation and participation seemed to effect the downward trend from when the Ponies captured a coveted state championship just three years ago, they come into the 2011 Class A state tournament with a renewed vigor. Havre...
There was a time when the Havre High boys tennis team would roll into a state tournament not having to wonder if the Blue Ponies would walk away state champions. However, thanks to improving tennis programs all over Class A, as well as the inevitably of top players graduating each spring, the Ponies are now part of a handful of strong Class A programs, and they must battle for what is theirs each and every year. Still, as three HHS players prepare to play in the 2011 Class A state tourney Thursday and Friday in Great Falls,...
JOPLIN, Mo. — Rescue and recovery work in Joplin was shadowed by uncertainty today as crews still hoping to find survivors combed areas that had already been searched several times and engineers entered the battered Joplin hospital where the tornado killed five to see if it could be salvaged. The death toll has reached at least 122, with 750 people hurt, from a mighty twister that the National Weather Service said was an EF5, the strongest rating assigned to tornadoes, with winds of more than 200 mph. But officials in the s...
AP Photo/Paul Beaty Employees of Harpo Studios leave Harpo Studios after the final taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in Chicago, Tuesday. The finale will air today. CHICAGO — Oprah Winfrey walked on stage for her talk show finale Wednesday to a standing ovation from her studio audience before thanking her viewers for watching for a quarter of a century. "Twenty-five years and I'm still saying 'Thank you America,'" Winfrey said. "Thank you so much. There are no words to match this moment." Winfrey told them that sometimes s...
LONDON — President Barack Obama sought to reassure the world today that American and European influence remains as dominant as ever, even as rising powers like China and India assert themselves. To the British Parliament seated at majestic Westminster Hall, Obama declared: "The time for our leadership is now." AP Photo/Sang Tan, Pool President Barack Obama, accompanied by House of Common Speaker John Bercow (center left) and House of Lords Speaker Baroness Hayman,(center right) arrives at the Houses of Parliament in London w...
HELENA — State employee unions are filing an unfair labor practice charge against state in the wake of the Legislature's rejection of a deal negotiated with the governor. MEA-MFT union leader Eric Feaver says he hopes the actions lead to new negotiations with the governor, an even better pay raise than employees first sought and a special session of the Legislature forcing lawmakers to ratify the new deal. The charge will launch an investigation by a hearings officer at the Montana Department of Labor and a decision by the B...
BILLINGS (AP) — Flood waters have receded enough for Crow Indian tribal members to return to their devastated homes, while cities and towns across Montana trying to stave off rivers and streams spilling from their banks braced for more rain. Flood war AP Photo/The Billings Gazette, David Grubbs Shadd Cullinan and Tammie McCormick, both owners of businesses in downtown Lodgegrass, Mont., toss food into a dumpster Tuesday at the local IGA food market. The food was damaged by flood waters and had to be destroyed. nings have b...
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Justice Department plans to bring criminal charges against John Edwards after a two-year investigation into whether the former presidential candidate illegally used money from some of his political backers to cover up his extramarital affair, a person familiar with the case said Wednesday. AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds, File In this Dec. 11, 2010 file photo, Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is seen in Raleigh, N.C. A person familiar with a federal investigation into Edwards' political dealing...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Children play on the playground this morning while waiting for school to start at Highland Park Early Primary School. The recently re-elected Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees, under new Chair Darlene Bricker, met for the first special afternoon meeting Tuesday. At the meeting the board, aside from some personnel actions, approved a bid to improve the drainage system around Highland Park Early Primary School. The approved bid, for $141,200, came from Patrick Construction & Pipeline of Havre...
With flood watches still in effect through the weekend, a close eye is being kept on high water at the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. Flooding on People's Creek led to flooding in Hays and Lodge Pole on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation Saturday. Some residents were evacuated. Most residents were able to return home by Monday. Avis Spencer, public information officer for the Fort Belknap incident command center, said this morning that the situation has not changed much since the weekend, except for flood damage to...
