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Pamville News Editor's Note: The April Pamville News, featuring the month's truecrime stories, is brought you by the letter E. ——— Economica Erotica: Greek for business as unusual In November 2008, an unsuspecting U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released its regular biannual internal audit report of the good, the bad and the "what were you thinking" deeds of its agency. New York-based Ponzi scheme king Bernie Madoff was watching his financial empire crumble. And, because of their own poor financial practices, U.S....
President Barack Obama has accelerated his search for his next Supreme Court nominee, meeting in the Oval Office with one of the candidates, federal judge Sidney Thomas of Montana, a person familiar with the conversation says. Obama' s meet ing wi t h Thomas on Thursday was his first known formal interview for the upcoming vacancy on the court. He is holding conversations with other candidates, and it is not clear whether he has already had other personal meetings with contenders. Vice President Joe Biden interviewed Thomas...
Nikki Bradshaw Carpenter was tough: she could kill a deer and skin it. But when it came to her three sons, the 31-year-old mother was a nurturer and a protector. Thus, friends and family say it came as no surprise to learn Carpenter had lost her life trying to shield her children from last weekend's killer tornado. Rodney Bradshaw, her cousin, said he found Carpenter pinned by two collapsed walls, a washing machine and a refrigerator. Two of her sons were beneath her; a third at her feet. All three children survived. On...
Ever since the railroad has put Havre on the map it has been known for its sports. The small Montana town doesn't have the numbers to compete with some of the state's bigger cities, but the out of the way, Hi-Line community has a knack for producing some of the state's elite athletes. Havre's 16-year-old Brandt Miller is no exception. He eats, sleeps and breathes hockey, and has an almost endless list of accolades to prove it. The newest accomplishment in Miller's already 10-year career on the ice came on April 11 of this...
Earlier this month, in his Bigfork workshop made mostly of salvaged wood and metal, blacksmith Jeffrey Funk and his team turned up the music and went to work recreating automotive history. It's a tedious process; Funk will be the first to tell you the craftsmanship on cars and trucks from the early 1920s was not a cookie-cutter process, making revitalizing vehicles from this time period a trialand- error job. Funk and his crew, comprised of Darrin Beaudette and Seth Axelsen, are part of a project financed by the nonprofit...
In the words of a famous shoe slogan ... just do it. Get out there and spend $30 today at a Havre business. Spend $30 at a local business and help give the Havre economy a jump start. "It's really very simple," said Havre Daily News publisher Martin Cody. "We're asking every adult 18 years of age and older to spend $30 today in a local business. Don't think of this as additional money spent out of an already tight budget, as many are experiencing right now, but money you may have considered spending online or out of town."...
In support of Special Olympics athletes, local law enforcement agents will make the more-than 100-mile trek to Great Falls by foot or bicycle Tuesday. "It's just a great cause," said David Bischoff, a supervisory Border Partrol agent who is a leg leader for the run. "It's a chance for us to give a little bit back to the community." At least 10 Border Patrol agents will be involved in the Law Enforcement Torch Run, along with members of other area law enforcement agencies. The runners take their time at first after leaving...
Art is more than paint on a canvas or clay shaped like an object and can help teach young minds everything from math and literacy skills to motor skills. Saturday at the Holiday Village Mall from 1 to 4 p.m., area families will be able to participate hands-on in several different mediums as part of the Day at the Museum. Art is intertwined in lots of everyday aspects of life, from cooking to how people dress, said Jen Graham, a teacher advocate at Northern Montana Child Development Center's head start program who is...
Drug task forces in the state will receive 2009 allocations which are currently in the bank and 2010 allocations yet to come, but the money must be budgeted to keep the seven forces in operation for two years. That is the recommendation from a committee that the Montana Board of Crime Control will vote on in June, said Mike Anderson, the board's chairman. The committee met last week with task force representatives in Helena to discuss funding for the forces. In 2008, the task forces absorbed a 72 percent cut in their funding...
Mo n t a n a D e p a r tme n t o f Transportation Director Jim Lynch will be in Havre tonight, listening to a pitch from the Highway 2 Association. The association wants U.S. Highway 2 expanded to four lanes for an 11-mile stretch east of Havre, even if it means a delay in construction. Contracts for an improved two-lane highway — with frequent passing and turning lanes — are expected to be awarded this summer. Lynch said he wants to hear what area elected city and county officials think before deciding whether to appeal an e...
The Lewis and Clark County sheriff has asked the department's chaplains to be available at the site of a weekend crash that killed five Helena-area teens. Sheriff Leo Dutton said "a lot of our kids are going out there and standing there," and he wanted to have someone for them to talk to. The five teens were heading south in an extended-cab pickup truck east of East Helena at about 1 a.m. Sunday when the driver failed to negotiate a curve. The pickup slammed into a dirt hill. Witnesses said they heard the vehicle accelerate...
Th e Montana Highway Patrol said five people were killed and one person was badly injured in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 2 east of Libby on Monday. Trooper Bryce Ford said a Dodge Stratus and a GMC Yukon were involved in the crash at about 10 a.m. Investigators are still trying to figure out what happened, but the crash happened on wet but clear roads. The vehicles were traveling in opposite directions, but Ford said the wreck was not a head-on collision. The driver of the Dodge, 68-yearold Jack Flasche of Troy, was...
I will find love, just not for a very long time, according to Tarot cards. At first, I was indignant. How could Tarot cards know when I'll fall in love? It seemed definite, final. That I was told the cards' predictions aren't forgone conclusions didn't help. The cards just show what will happen if I continue down the path I'm currently on, the reader explained. Still sounded like doom to me. No way am I doing anything wrong, I told myself. It's guys and their historical penchant for being, well, too dumb to realize I'm here....
An open letter to William Thackery. I found the picture you painted in your letter to the editor about Wendy Warburton's "speech" at Fifth Avenue Christian Church to be both untrue and unfair. Wendy's message that Sunday was not one to enhance her own political career, but rather to convey how priceless the life of an unborn child is. We live in a dire time where the beliefs of our Christian founding fathers are being continually challenged by a liberal progressive movement. I applaud the church for being a beacon of light an...
The Easter Bunny might lower your chances of having a heart problem. According to a new study, small doses of chocolate every day could decrease your risk of having a heart attack or stroke by nearly 40 percent. German researchers followed nearly 20,000 people over eight years, sending them several questionnaires about their diet and exercise habits. They found people who had an average of six grams of chocolate per day — or about one square of a chocolate bar — had a 39 percent lower risk of either a heart attack or str...
Ula Pearl Sutherland Shendo, 58, died March 24, 2010, from complications of diabetes. She was born Dec. 27, 1952, at Fort Belknap, Mont., to Pete and Angeline (Denny) Sutherland. Ula attended school in Rocky Boy and Great Falls. She received her GED from SIPI in 1970. There she met and married Joseph Shendo. They moved to Rocky Boy, and later they moved to Jemez Pueblo, N.M., where they lived until her death. She is survived by her husband of 40 years, Joseph Shendo Sr.; her sons, Joseph Shendo Jr. And Terell Shendo; her...
Don Vandeberg, 78, died Wednesday, March 24, 2010, with family by his side after a brave battle with pulmonary fibrosis. He was born July 19, 1931, in Havre, Mont., the ninth child of Leonard and Lena Vandeberg. He grew up in Havre and graduated from Havre High School in 1949. In October 1949, he married Juanita Nelson of Havre. They had three children, Michael, Donita and Cathy. He was employed with the railroad and then moved to Great Falls to work for Montana Flour Mills. Later they moved to Sacramento, Calif., where he...
Alfred McNair Manuel, 75, died March 22, 2010, at his home in Grass Valley, Calif., after a lengthy illness. He was born with his twin brother Richard in Havre, Mont., Jan. 10, 1935, to Thomas and Cera Manuel. He is survived by his wife of almost 50 years, Laura; two daughters, Mara and Darcey; four grandsons, Jeremy, Casey, Mac and Nick; two great-granddaughters, Jaycie and Julianna; and a great-grandson, Wyatt. Born and raised in Montana, Alfred will be missed by many friends there and in California....
