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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sharp questioning by the Supreme Court's conservative justices cast serious doubt Tuesday on the survival of the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul. Arguments at the high court focused on whether the mandate for virtually every American to have insurance "is a step beyond what our cases allow," in the words of Justice Anthony Kennedy. AP Photo/Dana Verkouteren This artist rendering shows Paul Clement speaks in front of the Supreme Court i...
BILLINGS (AP) — Oil companies have agreed to pay $320,000 to the northeastern Montana city of Poplar to relocate water wells and take other steps to deal with a 40 million gallon plume of pollution seeping into drinking supplies. Environmental Protection Agency scientist Sarah Roberts said Tuesday that Poplar's water so far remains safe to drink but faces imminent danger. Federal officials have been tracking the underground plume's spread from the East Poplar oil field for decades. It is moving toward Poplar and reached c...
After an outstanding 2011 campaign, the Montana State University-Northern volleyball program has added a pair of new recruits for next fall. Northern head coach Bill Huebsh recently announced the signing of Lewistown's Erin Jensen and Sandy, Utah native Abby Nicholas. Jensen, a 5-8 hitter comes to Northern after winning back-to-back Class A state championships for the powerhouse Golden Eagles. She's also the sister of current Skylight player Dayna Jensen. Erin attended Fergus...
The Montana State University-Northern football team has begun spring practice, but the Lights' coaches are also till on the recruiting trail. Late last week, MSU-Northern head coach Mark Samson announced the addition of six more players to the 2012 recruiting class, including a Havre High standout. Havre senior Joey DeVr Havre High's Joe DeVries gets ready to snap the ball during a Havre football practice back in November. DeVries became the latest Havre Blue Pony to sign...
A new program, years in the making, has overcome the last obstacle and will soon be offered at Montana State University-Northern. Northern announced this week that a new four-year Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice will be offered by the school "on-line or in a hybrid on-line/weekend format so students can continue their employment while pursuing their academic goals. " The final test to pass was that of the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, an accreditation organization. According to Katherine...
Charges have been filed and the suspect has been arraigned in the death late last year of 54-year-old Blaine County Undersheriff Pat Pyette. Mary Louise Stewart, the 61-year-old Hays woman who struck Pyette on U. S. Highway 2 on Dec. 14, pleaded not guilty Monday morning to a felony charge of negligent homicide. Blaine County Attorney Don Ranstrom said this morning that a few factors were behind the charge. According to Ranstrom, Stewart was driving "in a fairly excessive speed" of 45 mph in an emergency area, while...
Vicki Rae Brown, 60, of Coram, died Sunday. She was born Oct. 30, 1951, in Shelby. Surviviors are husband, Harry; children, Beverly Moses of Colorado, Cristi Wickert of Whitefish, Walter Brown of Coram, Anna Brown of Columbia Falls and Vanessa Weber of Washington. Reception is at Columbia Mortuary, Saturday, March 31, 2 to 4 p. m....
Courtesy photo Actors Dana Wheeler and Chaske Spencer are seen in this promotional image for "Winter in the Blood." It's not often that seeing the Hi-Line inspires an audience of hundreds to applaud, but that's what happened in the Wilma Theater in Missoula Saturday evening. Brothers Alex and Andrew Smith made an appearance at this year's Big Sky Documentary Film Festival on Saturday to show the trailer for their film, "Winter in the Blood, " that they shot in Havre, Chinook and other more remote parts of the Hi-Line last...
Melvin Leo, 83, of Harlem, passed away Feb. 24, 2012, due to natural causes. A viewing will be held at 7 p. m., Tuesday, Feb. 28, at Edwards Funeral Home. Graveside services will be held Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012, at 11 a. m., at Harlem Cemetery. Arrangements are made by Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook....
CHARDON, Ohio — A teenager opened fire in the cafeteria at his suburban Cleveland high school Monday, killing one student and wounding four others before he was chased from the building by a teacher and captured a short distance away, authorities said. A student who saw the attack up close said it appeared that the gunman targeted a group of students sitting together and that the one who was killed was gunned down while trying to duck under the cafeteria table. AP Photo/Mark Duncan S.W.A.T. members leave Chardon High S...
MISSOULA (AP) — Authorities say that a university of Montana linebacker has been charged with drunk driving after his pickup truck rolled over and stopped inches from a Missoula home. Missoula Police Detective Sgt. Bob Bouchee says 20-year-old Brian Maus refused a breath test and gave police a fake identification after the crash at 3:06 a.m. Sunday morning. The Missoulian reports (http://bit.ly/xPVTuN) that police obtained a warrant to test Maus' blood. He was charged with drunken driving, obstructing a peace officer and f...
The Box Elder girls basketball team came up one win short of its goal to reach the Class C state tournament. Monday night at the Swarthout Fieldhouse in Great Falls, the Winnett-Grass Range Rams defeated the Bears 61-46 in a Northern C challenge game. The loss ended the Bears' season with a sparkling 22-2 record, while the Rams will join Belt as the Northern C teams at the state tourney March 8-10 back in Great Falls. Aricka Wolf Chief scored 17 points and Crystal Stamper added 14 for the Bears on Monday night. For full...
LOS ANGELES — "The Artist" won five Academy Awards on Sunday including best picture, becoming the first silent film to triumph at Hollywood's highest honors since the original Oscar ceremony 83 years ago. Among other prizes for the black-and-white comic melodrama were best actor for Jean Dujardin and director for Michel Hazanavicius. AP Photo/Chris Pizzello From left, Michel Hazanavicius with the award for best director for "The Artist, Berenice Bejo and Jean Dujardin with the award for best actor in a leading role for "...
CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — An FBI spokeswoman says five students were injured when a shooter described as a classmate opened fire at an Ohio high school. AP Photo/Mark Duncan Parents walk past Chardon Middle School with students in Chardon, Ohio, this morning. The school released students to their parents after a gunman opened fire inside the nearby high school's cafeteria at the start of the school day Monday, wounding four students, officials said. Special Agent Vicki Anderson said Monday the shooter was taken into custody n...
CHARDON, Ohio (AP) — A student who witnessed a deadly Ohio school shooting says it appeared the gunman was targeting a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table. AP Photo/Mark Duncan Parents take their children from Chgardon Middle School in Chardon, Ohio Monday. Students were released after a gunman opened fire inside the nearby high school's cafeteria at the start of the school day Monday, wounding four students, officials said. Freshman Danny Komertz says he was just about to leave for his first-period health class M...
Tracy Rector, executive director of Longhouse Media, came to Missoula from Seattle for the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival to show off her "Visionary Insight. " The half-hour documentary was produced on the set of "Winter in the Blood, " as the film was made across the Hi-Line last summer. It follows the progress made by Native American interns on the set. Rector said the idea came from a discussion at last year's film festival, when Ken White, screenwriter and producer on the film, approached her to discuss the importance...
Law enforcement across Blaine County is still buzzing after last week's nearly synchronized school bomb threats. On Friday, the Fort Belknap Police Department arrested one suspect in association with the threat, a juvenile allegedly responsible for the threat called into Hays-Lodge Pole Schools. Jeff Stiffarm, Fort Belknap police chief, couldn't offer any more details about the suspect this morning, but did say they had video surveillance and eyewitnesses to back up the charges they filed. He also said they have an FBI...
It was another off shooting night for the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team. But when you play defense as well as the Lights do, it tends not to matter much. The No. 13 Lights smothered the Lewis-Clark State Warriors, 53-39 Friday night at a near capacity MSU-Nothern Fieldhouse, to improve to 19-3 on the season. The Warriors came in as the top-scoring offense in the Frontier Conference, but the Lights possess the No. 1 defense in all of the NAIA and...
The MSU-Northern women's basketball team sure knows how to bounce back. On Friday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse, the Skylights shrugged off last week's setback at Rocky Mountain College by stunning the nationally-ranked Lewis-Clark State Warriors, 55-48. Northern's defense and its ability to outrebound the much taller Warriors was paramount. The Skylights set the tone in the first five minutes by grabbing five offensive rebounds en route to a 27-20 halftime edge....
Anytime the Havre High boys basketball team plays the CMR Rustlers, the Blue Ponies know it is going to be a tough game. But not having seen the Rustlers since week one of the season, hopefully the Blue Ponies will show they are much improved. In just the seco Havre High senior Brandon Smith shoots over a Shelby defender during a high school boys basketball game earlier this month in Havre. The Ponies are home to face CMR Saturday evening. nd game of the season for the Central A Ponies, the Rustlers defeated the Ponies...
Together, the Lewis-Clark State Warriors and Westminster Griffins are not just two of the premier teams in Frontier Conference women's basketball, they are two of the premier teams in all of the NAIA. MSU-Northern's Laramie Schwenke (left) looks for a shot during a Frontier women's game against UGF earlier this month. Tonight, the Skylights are home to face nationally-ranked Lewis-Clark State at 6. The Skylights will also host nationally-ranked Westminster on Saturday night....
The schedule has been jam packed full of great competition for the Havre high wrestling team as of late, and while the Blue Ponies are just coming out of a dual with Great Falls High on Tuesday, they gear up for another great team tonight. Tonight at the Havre High gymnasium in Havre, the Central A Ponies will host to--rankled Class B-C power Forsyth in a dual. Havre was also set to dual Conrad in a triangular but the Cowboys opted not to make the trip to Havre. "Forsyth is far and away the best B-C team in the state," Havre...
Montana State University-Northern's Shaun Tatarka (right) launches a 3-pointer during a Frontier men's game against Montana Tech earlier this month. The Lights are home tonight to face Lewis-Clark State and Saturday to host Westminster. When you're the top dog, the Frontier Conference schedule becomes a gauntlet. And this weekend at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse is another obstacle in the gauntlet the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team is trying to navigate...
Editor: We serve on the President's Council of Intermountain, formerly Intermountain Children's Home. Intermountain works with children suffering from emotional trauma, mainly from abuse and neglect, and does a fantastic job serving children, families and professionals across the state through a wide range of services. We have observed first-hand the work of the passionate, dedicated staff of Intermountain and have seen the success of their program. We recently learned that Intermountain was granted a substantial award from t...
Few things are more important to a community than well-run and locally controlled schools. Virtually all school districts, along with teachers, parents, and community leaders, strive to provide the education and training our children deserve with less money than in times past. While local communities band together, however, State Superintendent Denise Juneau and the Office of Public Instruction have proven themselves to be unreliable partners. Sandy Welch Building a new school is no small decision. Responsible and engaged com...
