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Runoff leads to discolored water in Havre Tim Leeds Havre residents may have noticed a slight change in their water, with some discoloration of what is coming out of the tap. Havre Public Works Director Dave Peterson said this morning that the color is nothing of concern — higher levels of chemicals used to treat the water is leading to the change. "It's that time of year that we've got the water coming down off Big Sandy Creek, " Peterson said, adding that the level of the creek — and accompanying detritus with the run...
House OKs $7.9M for Northern auto-diesel center John Kelleher The state House of Representatives has approved a bonding package for the university system that includes $7.9 million for the proposed auto-diesel building at Montana State University-Northern. The bill passed 72-25. The project now goes to the state Senate where it must receive 28 affirmative votes. Under the state constitution, bonding has to be approved by a total of 100 votes in the two houses combined. School officials said the project would convert one of...
Threats have no place in public discourse Editor: What do we have in common? Well, we both call Havre, Mont., home. Aside from that geographical fact, it would be very difficult to find much of anything for which we agree. Steelers vs. Packers nope. Taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, we couldn't be further apart. Whether or not the 2000 presidential election was decided fairly, definitely not. Some very disturbing news from Helena this week did, however, make the two of us realize that we have one unwavering principle...
Social host ordinance is the right choice Editor: Kids report that most of the time they get alcohol from "social" sources like older friends, friends' parents, etc. We know sometimes they are getting it from retail businesses, too, but with compliance checks now, that should start to diminish. Our youth deserve the community's support to do the right thing for their health and safety and if we can begin to eliminate social sources of alcohol, it will give another tool to show youth that their neighbors, parents friends want...
Ex-mistress: Bonds blamed steroids for injury PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Barry Bonds' former mistress testified Monday that he blamed a 1999 elbow injury on steroid use, and that the body and behavior of baseball's home run king changed during their nine-year relationship. Called by prosecutors to the witness stand, Kimberly Bell choked up as she recalled Bonds once threatening "to cut my head off and leave me in a ditch," an outburst prosecutors attribute to steroid use. The defense portrayed Bell a...
Smoke billows from an explosion on the road between between Ras Lanouf and Sirte in eastern Libya, Monday. Rebel forces bore down Monday on Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte, a key government stronghold where a brigade headed by one of the Libyan leader's sons was digging in to defend the city and setting the stage for a bloody and possibly decisive battle. (AP Photo) Libyan rebels bear down on Gadhafi's hometown RYAN LUCAS,Associated Press BIN JAWWAD, Libya (AP) — Rebel forces bore down Monday on Moammar Gadhafi's h...
Obama to lay out his case on Libya to nation BEN FELLER, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is striving to explain why the U.S. is at war again — on a third front — as he resolutely defends the military campaign in Libya. His message in a speech to the nation at 5:30 p.m. MDT Mondayt: U.S. involvement this time is shrinking and isn't a precedent for further action as violence flows across the Middle East. Obama's address was unlikely to specify how long the conflict might last or what the cost...
Long day at Montana Senate to approve GOP budget MATT GOURAS, Associated Press HELENA — The Senate was working late Monday tinkering with the state budget as Republicans agreed to put some money back in for electronic medical records as sought by Gov. Brian Schweitzer, although the vast majority of the proposals to restore the governor's plan were rebuffed by the GOP majority. Republicans running the Senate agreed early Monday that the state should indeed take about $35 million in federal money to help hospitals and local c...
APNewsBreak: Border agent killed man climbing wall AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press PHOENIX — A Mexican man was climbing a ladder when a Border Patrol agent fatally shot him three times, a sheriff's spokeswoman told The Associated Press on Monday. Cochise County sheriff's investigators have no indication that Carlos La Madrid, 19, assaulted or tried to assault the agent when he was shot March 21, said agency spokeswoman Carol Capas. La Madrid had fled police in the Arizona border city of Douglas in a truck and drove to the...
House backs bill to toughen laws for repeat DUI STEPHEN DOCKERY, Associated Press HELENA — A proposal to toughen the penalties against repeat drunk drivers was endorsed by the House Monday, one of a number of measures attempting to crack down on high drunk-driving rates in Montana. House Bill 14 carried by Democratic Rep. Mike Menahan would let courts look back to impaired driving offenses up to 10 years old when someone is being punished for a drunk-driving charge, a change from the current five-year cutoff. The measure, w...
President Barack Obama speaks about Libya at the National Defense University in Washington, Monday, AP Photo/Charles Dharapak Obama strongly defends US military action in Libya BEN FELLER, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Defending the first war launched on his watch, President Barack Obama declared Monday night the United States intervened in Libya to prevent a slaughter of civilians that would have stained the world's conscience and "been a betrayal of who we are." Yet he ruled out targeting Libyan leader M...
Photo by Cody Bloomsburg Warden Mike Mahoney talks to an inmate through the window of an isolation cell at the Montana State Prison. Budget cuts advancing through the Legislature could make his prison more dangerous and push more inmates into community facilities, he says. Warden worries about the effects of cutting Montana's prison budget By CODY BLOOMSBURG , Community News Service UM School of Journalism DEER LODGE – Warden Mike Mahoney rests his arm on the steel door as if it were his backyard fence and he was talking t...
Winter is nowhere near gone, but the Havre High boys and girls tennis teams still made their 2011 season debut this weekend. On Saturday in Cut Bank, the Blue Ponies participated in a modified Cut bank Invitational, as Havre played two duals inside Cut bank's Willie DeGroot Gymnasium with shortened matches. Early Saturday morning, HHS took on Cut Bank. The Havre boys won just two matches against the talented Wolves, with Justin Jensen and Brayden Grimson both winning in singles. On the girls side, HHS won just once against...
The Class C houses some of the smallest basketball programs in the state, but this weekend in Havre, the Class C also proved that they house some of the biggest talent. Over the weekend, the Armory Gymnasium on the campus of Montana State University-Northern was home of the 25th annual Hi-Line Invitational Tournament (HIT). And on the girls side of the action, it was the Class C squad coached by Jeff Graham claiming the championship for the second straight year. In the championship game the Class C defeated the Class A...
Broken heart at the buzzer Westminster 67, Skylights 66 WM — Michelle Pace 4-13 3-4 12, Angela Fales 0-3 0-2 0, Olivia Pierce-Eiselein 0-0 1-2 1, Nicole Yazzie 4-8 0-0 12, Brooke Larsen 2-3 2-5 6, Jenteal Jackson 3-8 0-0 7, Dana Bates 5-8 2-2 14, Rebecca Beaudoin 0-0 0-0 0, Dani Evans 5-9 4-5 15. Totals 23-52 12-20 67. MSU-N — Laramie Schwenke 6-11 2-4 16, Taylor Keller 3-5 0-0 7, Kylee Denham 0-0 0-0 0, Samm Schermele 6-12 9-10 24, Valerie Gee 1-2 0-0 2, Jordan Bruursema 4-8 0-0 9, Nicole Wilk 0-1 0-0 0, Courtney Blume 2-5...
For the last five years, the Westminster College women's basketball team has been at or near the top of the Frontier Conference. And in that time, the MSU-Northern Skylights have had their chances to upset the Griffins. Perhaps no chance was better than Friday night as the Skylights led the No. 9 Griffins 66-64 with just five seconds left in the game. But Westminster has a big-shot team and that came back to haunt the Skylights as Griffin sophomore Nicole Yazzie raced the floor, pulled up and buried a 3-pointer at the buzzer...
Frontier Conference men's basketball games don't get any bigger than when the Montana State University-Northern Lights play host to the Westminster Griffins. They don't get any bigger that is, unless the conference championship is at stake, as was the case in Northern's dramatic 64-58 win over the Griffins Friday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse. The Lights needed a win over Westminster in order to set up having a chance to claim at least a share of the regular season Frontier title on Saturday night – and that's e...
Northern is No. 2 Seed in Frontier Playoffs Lights host Battlin' Bears Wednesday night 2011 Frontier Men's Playoffs No. 8 Montana Tech (4-10, 6-21) at No. 1 Carroll College (10-4, 20-7) No. 7 Rocky Mountain (4-10, 11-19) at No. 2 MSU-Northern (10-4, 21-8) No. 6 University of Great Falls (5-9, 12-17) at No. 3 Montana Western (9-5, 21-8) No. 5 Lewis-Clark State (6-8, 16-11) at No. 4 Westminster College (8-6, 20-8)...
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team suffered an emotionally devastating loss to Westminster College on Friday night. In fact, it doesn't get any more difficult than getting beat at the buzzer. Then the Skylights had to turn around and say goodbye to senior greats Samm Schermele and Taylor Keller before Saturday night's regular season finale against No. 10 Lewis-Clark State. And if that wasn't emotional enough, Northern then suffered its second straight heartbreaking loss to boot. On Saturday night...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team got a huge win when the Lights knocked off the Westminster Griffins on Friday night. On Saturday night however, the Lights needed one more. In order to ensure the Lights would tie for the frontier Conference regular season championship, they had to beat Lewis-Clark State in the regular season finale, and while it took an extra five minutes, the Lights got the job done. Northern claimed its second Frontier regular season title in four years by beating LC State 70-65...
If you watch college basketball on ESPN, or the NBA each and every night, you'd hardly know that basketball was invented to be a team sport. Today's game features one-on-one basketball more than ever before, and it's certainly entertaining. I won't lie, I like high-flying dunks, long 3-pointers and fast-break basketball that is today's game. It's fun to watch, there's no doubt about that. But in its purest form, the game of basketball is played with passing, strategy and defense, and this year's Montana State University-North...
OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has reported a 43 percent jump in fourth-quarter profit thanks to the strong performance of BNSF railroad and a paper gain of $1.4 billion on the company's derivative contracts and investments. Buffett said in his annual letter that the acquisition of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad was the highlight of 2010 for his Omaha, Neb.,-based company. Berkshire reported $4.38 billion net income, or $2,656 per Class A share, in the fourth quarter. That's up from the $3.1 b...
Session watchers weigh in on the Legislature CODY BLOOMSBURG Community News Service UM School of Journalism HELENA – From his office in Missoula, University of Montana political science professor Jim Lopach has watched legislative politics for decades. This session, he said, is different. He said he is surprised by the boldness of lawmakers looking to get at the roots of things, to shake up what has long been settled, and by their willingness to challenge the powers that be, from President Barak Obama down to city and c...
On the 14th day of protests at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Monday, Feb. 28, 2011, demonstrators pack up their bedding. Opponents to the governor's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers have been sleeping at the Capitol since Feb. 15th. (AP Photo/Andy Manis) Wis. gov. to outline ultimate intentions in budget SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's explosive proposal to take nearly all collective bargaining rights away from most public workers r...
ibyan militia members who are now part of the forces against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi organize ammunition at a military base in Benghazi, in eastern Libya, Monday. AP Photo/Kevin Frayer Pro-Gadhafi forces fight rebels in 2 cities MAGGIE MICHAEL,Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — International pressure on Moammar Gadhafi to end a crackdown on opponents escalated Monday as his loyalists fought rebels holding the two cities closest to the capital and his warplanes bombed an ammunition depot in the east. The U.S. moved n...
