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Correction: An earlier version of this story said Hunter Burns has pleaded guilty to embezzlement charges. He admitted filing false documents. He spent two months in federal prison and four months of home confinement, He is free now. Melody Billy Henry, the former president of Stone Child College, pleaded not guilty at the Missouri River Federal Courthouse in Great Falls Tuesday and is scheduled to have her trial next Tuesday. Henry and her husband, Frank Gregory Henry. both entered pleas of not guilty for charges of...
MISSOULA (AP) - A Montana man wasn't defending his family but rather hunting someone when he shot and killed a German high school student who was trespassing in his garage, a judge said Thursday as he sentenced the man to 70 years in prison with no parole possible for at least 20 years. "Here you have a 12-guage shotgun, not to protect your family but to go after someone. And go after someone you did," District Judge Ed McLean said sternly in sentencing Markus Kaarma for delib...
Upbeat. Uplifting. Positive. I like to fill my weekly articles with humor and hope. Re-read the title, an ancient Hopi expression. That’s all the hope I have to give you. This is my second week under house arrest, chained to my walker. I know I am healing. I know it is a slow process. My mind knows. My heart is unrealistic. I want surgery last week followed by entering the 10 K this week and perhaps a full-on tri-athalon next week. I feel like Snow White with the six d...
A man charged with involuntary manslaughter pleaded not guilty Monday after being arrested Friday and is now scheduled to go to trial. Sean Milo Stiffarm, 24, is accused of reckless driving that resulted in the death of Janika Louise Doney, 19, on or around May 10 near Harlem in Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. Stiffarm and his federal public defender, Evangelo Arvanetes, are scheduled to go to a jury trial April 13 at 9 a.m. at the Missouri Federal Courthouse in Great Falls. Stiffarm’s maximum penalty is eight years i...
Havre High School's athletic director, who recently won the Montana Athletic Director of the Year Award, has been nominated for awards from the national level. Dennis Murphy, who received his award in Kalispell in January, is among eight Montana coaches who have been selected as finalists for National High School Coaches Association awards. Each of the eight people have been nominated for eight different categories. The Coach of the Year Award winners will be announced at the...
The annual Republican Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner political fundraiser will take place Sunday, Feb. 15. at the Duck Inn Olympic Room, 1300 1st St. This event will be hosted by the Hill County and Blaine County Republican Central Committees. Andrew Brekke, Hill County Republican chair, said Sen. Steve Daines and Montana Attorney General Tim Fox will be the keynote speakers. Fox was sworn in two years ago, the only statewide Republican to be elected in a Democratic sweep. “Our local legislators will also be on hand — Sen. Kri...
Two Havre people are among five honored by Gov. Steve Bullock with the Montana Ambassador Award. Renelle Braaten, the founder of Enell Inc., will receive the Montana Ambassadors Entrepreneur of the Year award. Greg Kegel, interim chancellor of Montana State University-Northern, will be the recipient of the Montana Ambassadors Educator of the Year. Kegel, Braaten and three others will be saluted in ceremonies in Helena March 19. Bullock praised Braaten for going from “owning a barbershop, to owning the most successful s...
Havre Police Department Leena Healy, 20, of Havre was arrested on a Justice or City court warrant after an officer served it to her at 7:17 a.m. Wednesday at 1st Street Northeast. —— Officers investigated an 8:14 a.m. Wednesday call from 1st Avenue about vehicles getting egged. —— A 17-year-old was issued a summons on a charge of purchase or possession of an intoxicant by a minor after officers investigated a 9:40 a.m. Wednesday call from Havre High School. —— Officers investigated a 6:18 p.m. Wednesday call from a 1st Stree...
Duane M. Sohm, "Red," 83, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015, at Northern Montana Hospital of natural causes. Viewing will be Friday, Feb. 13, 2015, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Holland & Bonine Funeral Home. His funeral service will be 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, 2015, at the Holland & Bonine Funeral Chapel with Pastor John Chapman officiating. Burial with full military honors will follow at Highland Cemetery. Memorials in Duane's honor may be made to a memorial of the donor's choi...
The Havre High wrestling team will walk into the Rimrock Auto Arena at the Billings Metra Friday morning as the two-time defending Class A state champions and the No. 1 team in Class A. Included in Friday morning's Parade of Athletes will be three returning state champions for Havre and nine Ponies who placed at the state meet a year ago - not to mention 10 wrestlers who won divisional titles last weekend in Livingston. Yes, Havre is a heavy favorite to capture the state...
GREAT FALLS - The new NAIA wrestling rankings were released just hours before the Montana State University-Northern Lights and University of Great Falls Argos were set to square off in their annual February rematch. And in those rankings, the Argos and Lights traded places, as UGF moved up to No. 3 and the Lights fell to No. 5. Hours later, inside UGF's McLaughlin Center, the Argos certainly wrestled like the No. 3 team in the country. For the second time this season, UGF...
There was a time, not long ago, that the Chinook Sugarbeeters owned the Class C wrestling ranks. Since its inception, the Beeters had won five Class C trophies at the Class B-C state wrestling tournament. However, it’s been two years since the Beeters last claimed the state championship trophy in Billings, and this weekend, they want it back. A year ago, Chinook was edged by Belt for the Class C state championship, but as seven Sugarbeeters descend on the Rimrock Auto Arena a...
For the Havre High wrestling team, the wait is finally over. After more than two months of hard work and anticipation, the All-Class state wrestling meet has finally arrived and the Blue Ponies now have the chance to make their mark in the history books by winning yet another Class A state championship. In 2013 and 2014, the Ponies walked away from the Rimrock Auto Arena at the Metra Park in Billings as state champions. And they will begin their quest to do so for a third cons...
