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If you can literally switch positions in the first game of your season and by switching positions, I mean go from playing offense to defense, there's no question you're a talented and superior athlete. And that's been the story of James Chandless' senior season for the Montana State University-Northern football team. Chandless began his career and has spent the last three seasons as Northern's starting fullback, an often unheralded by important position. From the time...
BILLINGS — A proposed standard for federal cleanup of asbestos contamination in a Montana town concludes that even a tiny amount of the material can lead to lung problems — a benchmark far more rigorous than any in the past and one that the industry says could force expensive and unnecessary cleanups across the country. The Environmental Protection Agency's new proposal for the northwest Montana town of Libby, where asbestos dust has killed hundreds of people, would be 5,000 times tougher than the standard used in past cle...
Members of the MSU-Northern volleyball team celebrate a kill during Thursday night's Frontier Conference match against Montana Tech at the Armory Gymnasium. The MSU-Northern volleyball team is steam-rolling opponents on the newly renovated Armory Gymnasium floor. On Thursday night, the Skylights dismantled Montana Tech in straight sets by scores of 25-22, 25-18 and 25-21 to improve to a perfect 4-0 at home and 5-1 in the Frontier Conference. Northern really dominated the first set, but had tro rally from behind in the second...
BILLINGS (AP) — Fire crews reported progress as they dug in against a wildfire threatening rural houses east of Roundup on Monday. But forecasters warned of windy conditions during the next several days that could fan blazes across the state. The lightning-caused Delphia fire was 60 percent contained after growing to almost 55 square miles, said spokesman Pat Mckelvey with the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. It was burning in timber and sage brush between Roundup and Musselshell. About 15 to 20 o...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With its massive size and ponderous movement, a strengthening Isaac could become a punishing rain machine depending on its power, speed and where it comes ashore along the Gulf Coast. The focus has been on New Orleans as Isaac takes dead aim at the city seven years after Hurricane Katrina, but the impact will be felt well beyond the city limits. The storm's winds could be felt more than 200 miles from its center. AP Photo/Butch Dill A man dives into a large wave caused by Tropical Storm Isaac in Gulf S...
KEY WEST, Fla. — Tropical Storm Isaac targeted a broad swath of the Gulf Coast on Monday and had New Orleans in its crosshairs, bearing down just ahead of the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The potential for a landfall as a Category 1 hurricane as soon as Tuesday prompted evacuations along a wide area of the Gulf Coast and sent people out to stock up on staples. "I gassed up — truck and generator", John Corll, 59, a carpenter, said as he left a New Orleans coffee shop Monday morning. He went through Katrina in 2005...
KEY WEST, Fla. — Tropical Storm Isaac targeted a broad swath of the Gulf Coast on Monday and had New Orleans in its crosshairs, bearing down just ahead of the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The potential for a landfall as a Category 1 hurricane as soon as Tuesday prompted evacuations along a wide area of the Gulf Coast and sent people out to stock up on staples. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert Workers move horses into trailers at the Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, after a mandatory evacuation of the animals was i...
Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, moved the world a second time this weekend with his death at the age of 82. Like his history-shaping step more than 43 years ago, Armstrong's death was felt around the world, including north-central Montana. Spike Magelssen, Montana State University-Northern professor and the space enthusiast behind Havre's recent Yuri's night celebrations, said he remembered watching the moon landing when he was 11 years old. "It was just phenomenal that we could leave the bonds of Earth and make...
It's not often a music fan on the Hi-Line can see country, rock and hip hop acts share one stage. A.J. Briere wanted to fix that with the Bear Pawlooza music festival. Saturday and Sunday Briere, with his music promoting company Dine and Ditch Entertainment, held the second annual Bear Pawlooza festival, this year at the Blaine County Fairgrounds. While most of the bill was local Hi-Line or Montana bookings, a few out-of-state acts were on the bill, too. Stevie Stone, a Missouri-based rapper from Kansas City's rap king Tech...
Havre Daily News/Tim Leeds Military service members lift the flag Saturday outside of Harlem High School from the casket of Blaine County Commissioner Vic Miller during the military honors provided Miller at the end of his funeral. See Page A8 for more photos from Miller's funeral service. People from counties throughout Montana gathered in Harlem Saturday to remember and honor a man from the town who had spent his life serving others: Blaine County Commissioner and former Harlem Mayor Vic Miller. "We all know God made only...
One of the only things it appears both parties in this year's election agree on is that the media has done an awful job of tackling the issues that really matter. And Alex Ohanian is in that same boat. Ohanian is the 29-year-old Internet entrepreneur behind what is probably my favorite website, Reddit.com, which he sold to magazine-giant Conde Nast straight out of college. Zach White Since then he has started several new websites and has been a vocal advocate of keeping the Internet as free and open as possible. Ohanian and...
BILLINGS (AP) — Fire crews are working to contain a wildfire threatening rural houses northeast of Roundup as they brace for several days of hot and windy weather that could fan the flames on multiple blazes across the state. Spokesman Pat Mckelvey said Monday that the lightning-caused Delphia fire northeast of Roundup has grown to almost 55 square miles. Mckelvey says about 15 to 20 outbuildings have been destroyed, but no houses. Claudia Rapkoch with Northwestern Energy says the company hopes to restore power Monday to t...
Montana will have a real presence at the Republican National Convention that begins in earnest on Tuesday. Former Gov. Tim Babcock will lead the convention in the Pledge of Alligance just after the convention opens. Babcock, governor from 1962 to 1969, is attending his 12th consecutive GOP convention as a delegate. He will share pledge duties with Korean War Marine veteran Tom Hogan. Republican congressional ccandidate Steve Daines will address the convention at 12:50 p.m. MST. Daine said he will talk about his Montana...
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said in a telephone press conference Thursday that, whatever the results of the November elections, the crucial matter is that the results break the deadlock Washington has seen for the last four years, especially to get control of the federal deficit and the debt. "If we get people back here who are willing to work together, work across the aisle, then I think we can get some good things done, and that's really what's important about this election, " he said. Tester also said that he believes a lot...
Building a $5 million 20-unit housing complex is large endeavour, especially for a local nonprofit like the District 4 Human Resources Development Council, but Gene Leuwer explained how it happened at Thursday's Buffalo Court ribbon cutting. Leuwer, of Helena-based GL Development, helped coordinate the financing for the project and explained where the process will likely lead. The project was funded through Section 42 of the tax code, a provision from President Ronald Reagan's Tax Reform Act of 1986, which allowed the sale...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson Buffalo Court manager Fern Lohse, left, gives tours Thursday morning of the new apartments for low-income senior citizens during a ribbon-cutting ceremony. A large crowd filled Buffalo Court late Thursday morning, and the verdict was good. More than 100 people came to celebrate the opening of the new housing development for Havre's low-income senior citizens. The event began at 11 a. m., though early arrivals were given tours of the empty homes. A few had been furnished by Barkus Home Center,...
It seems that various teams in the past several Summer Olympics have utilized an amazing secret weapon to help them bring home the Olympic bling: U.S. Navy SEAL training. Go ahead and say it ... Hoo-yah. In March, a group of Navy SEALs went to the Olympic training center in Colorado Springs, Colo., to train the U.S. sailing team in the not-so-subtle art of working as a team while enduring personal physical and mental agony. Pam Burke NBC Channel 9 News reporter Matt Renoux...
Nikki Carlson I remember the day I trekked across the Midwest 1,700 miles to start working as the ag reporter and photographer for the Havre Daily News. I had a garage sale in my home in Shenandoah, Iowa, to sell everything I could to get gas money to get up here to Havre. What I couldn't sell, I gave away or left behind. I loaded up what I could into my 1985 Crown Victoria, said goodbye to my family and began my journey to Montana. It was smooth sailing for the most part. When I had arrived in central North Dakota, the...
Laurel — The Wahkpa Chu'gn Buffalo Jump has been around for 2,000 years, and we hope it will be around for another 2,000 years. It has a lot of lessons to teach us about those who lived on what we called the Hi-Line two millennium ago. In another 2,000 years, we hope, there will be an interpretive center at the site, and it will still be named the John & Anna Brumley Interpretive Center. John Brumley, a Havre High School student 50 years ago, became the modern-day discoverer of the site. He and his wife, Anna, have become t...
The Montana State University-Northern Volleyball program has been busy with its annual camps this summer, but things will continue to heat up this weekend, as the Skylights host several local squads for their annual team camp. With the renovations still underway at the Armory Gymnasium, this year the camp will be held at the Havre Middle School. The team camp will run today and Saturday beginning each morning at 9 a.m. As of now, Havre, Poplar, Dutton Brady, North Star and Box Elder have teams registered to participate, and...
Dean Smith, Mike Kyrzyzewski, Bobby Knight, Vince Lombardi, Don Shula — what do they all have in common? They are all legendary coaches in their respective professions and they coached or are still coaching their respective teams for lengthy periods of time. But something else they have in common — they all have had more than one head coaching gig in their career. In light of Montana State University-Northern head coach Shawn Huse recently being courted by and eventually interviewing with Minot State University, it got me thi...
When it comes to offense, the Frontier Conference as a whole knows how to put up big numbers. Sometimes it's the passing game, or in the case of 2011, the league was chalked full of premier running backs. The quarterbacks had their moments too, but many teams broke in new signal callers in 2011. Usually, that means the following year there will be a plethora of great QB's returning, but as the 2012 season approaches, the quarterback position in the new-look Frontier could...
LONDON — Britain opened its Olympics with a royal entrance like no other. London greeted the world in a celebration of Old England that was stunning, imaginative, whimsical and dramatic — and cheeky, even featuring a stand-in for Queen Elizabeth II parachuting with James Bond into Olympic Stadium. Moments later, the 86-year-old monarch herself stood solemnly while a children's choir serenaded her with "God Save the Queen," and members of the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force raised the Union Jack. AP Photo/Matt Dunham Per...
BILLINGS — Fire crews working in cooler temperatures Friday made gains on major wildfires threatening homes in central and southern Montana, but officials warned more blazes were possible in coming days. A mandatory evacuation for 20 to 30 homes south of Columbus was downgraded to voluntary and significant progress was reported on a fire north of Winnett. Yet with the landscape dried out from recent hot weather and a high likelihood of new lightning strikes, conditions were considered prime for new fires to erupt. A...
The Havre North Stars American Legion baseball team has been on the road for nearly a month now, but ended the long road trip with two big time wins for the ball club. Monday the North Stars spent the day playing the Vauxhall Spurs in Vauxhall, in a league doubleheader. The Spurs spend year in and year out amongst the top teams in the league, making the two game sweep that much more impressive for the North Stars. In game one, the North Stars earned a 7-3 win, and in the nightcap, the North Stars earned a 5-3 win. Brandon...
