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BILLINGS (AP) — A visiting Yellowstone County judge said he will not apply a northwestern Montana judge's ruling last week that the state's 24/7 Sobriety Program for repeat drunken-driving offenders is unconstitutional. District Judge James Spaulding on Thursday said it would be more appropriate for the presiding judge, District Judge Mary Jane Knisely, to make any ruling on the 24/7 program. Attorney Jock B. West of Billings had asked Spaulding to uphold the Feb. 5 ruling in Lincoln County that the fees charged in the p...
Elda (Richard) Greeno, 78, widow of Dale Greeno, Rudyard farmer and mechanic, died Jan. 31 in Hot Springs. Elda and Dale lived in Havre from 1964 to 1980. Her memorial service will be 3 p.m. Monday, Feb. 17, at the Calvary Evangelical Church in Rudyard. Burial of ashes at Rudyard Cemetery. Arrangements are by Rockman Funeral Chapel in Chester....
HELENA (AP) — The FBI in Salt Lake City is seeking assistance in locating a 28-year-old Montana man who escaped from Bozeman police while being questioned about a sexual assault. Kevin Briggs faces a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and charges of aggravated assault, attempted sexual intercourse without consent and assault on a peace officer in Gallatin County. Briggs was being questioned about an assault on his former girlfriend early on Feb. 1, but walked out of the police station during a shift c...
A Havre man who was just acquitted of a felony charge of criminal endangerment for shooting a gun inside the city limits is back in jail on a new felony charge. James R. Lowrance, born in 1990, was in the Hill County jail this morning on $15,000 bond awaiting an arraignment Wednesday on felony charges of theft and forgery. A jury in January at the end of a three-day trial in state District Court in Havre found Lowrance not guilty of a felony count of criminal endangerment and found him guilty of misdemeanor charges of...
HELENA - Gov. Steve Bullock said Friday he told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid it was "none of your damn business" who the Democratic governor appointed to fill Montana's vacant U.S. Senate seat. Refuting claims by state Republican Party officials that his appointment of John Walsh last week was a ploy to give Democrats an advantage in retaining the seat in November's election, Bullock said he spoke with no other senators, White House officials or political party...
Laurel — Havre Middle School student Vander Swensen won the annual Hill County Spelling Bee Wednesday. By spelling the difficult words he did, he proved that young people still take spelling seriously. And it showed that Havre Public Schools — and the other schools that took part in the competition — still teach spelling well. Dart — Someone shot a golden eagle on the Crow Indian Reservation, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to know who. They are willing to pay $1,000 for any information that will help them lo...
The Bear Paw Ski Bowl opened December 1960 and has been providing the Hi-Line with somewhere close to home to ski ever since. The Bear Paw Ski Bowl is owned by the Chippewa Cree Business Committee and and managed by the nonprofit organization Snow Dance Ski Association. The association was created to maintain and run the ski bowl, and all of its members are volunteers. Claire Stoner is the president of the SDSA and is also a volunteer. She said the association is responsible...
I am tired of the gradual short-changing of America. Yes, yes, of course, we’ve heard it all before about how everybody wants a job, a job that pays a decent wage, and everybody who’s anybody knows that the only way that’s going to happen is for the wealthiest of the wealthy and those rotten over-paid CEOs to share the wealth, but I think that’s a little shortsighted. Yes, folks, get those jobs lined out, and the ultrahigh-minimum wage paychecks, too, but make those corporate...
Editor: Thank you Dr. Douglas Safely and the staff at Havre Optometric for going above and beyond to help a very young member of our community and my granddaughter who required emergency attention. Your dedication as a professional is why we looked to you to help our child, but your compassion and generosity during this difficult time superseded our expectations. By providing emergency care and attention and reaching out to other specialists, you were the catalyst for finding a solution that did not come easy. Your...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a 3 p.m. Thursday call from an 11th Street West business about suspicious activity. ——— Officers investigated a two-vehicle crash at 4:35 p.m. Thursday at a 2nd Street business where someone was taken to the hospital. ——— A two-vehicle, noninjury motor vehicle crash was investigated after officers received a 4:54 p.m. Thursday call from a 2nd Street business. ——— Daniel Adolph Frickel, 64, of Havre was issued a summons on a charge of dog at large after officers responded to a 4:58...
James Stuart Leeds, 63, of Havre, passed away in his home that he built and loved so much, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. A Celebration of Life service will be held at 10 a.m., Monday, Feb. 17, 2014, at Fifth Avenue Christian Church. The family has suggested that memorials in Jim's name be made to American Cancer Research. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements and services, and you may express your condolences and memories at www.hollandbonine.com. On...
The local economic development agency is bringing a local U.S Senator to highlight its annual meeting, scheduled for next Friday, Feb. 21. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., is scheduled as the keynote speaker. “We are honored that Sen. Tester will be our keynote speaker,” Bear Paw Executive Director Paul Tuss said in a press release Thursday. “Given his roots right here in Bear Paw’s region as a farmer from Big Sandy, he has first-hand knowledge of the importance of the work we do and the role that rural communities play in the eco...
Residents have the opportunity to say what they would like to see happen with Beaver Creek Park at a public meeting set for 6 p.m. Monday at the Hill County Electric Hospitality Room west of Havre. Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson spearheaded setting up the meeting, saying he wants to hear from local residents what they think should happen with the park, including whether it should be kept for local use “or do we want to share it with the world?” Peterson said another possible topic is whether people want to see mor...
Montana’s senior U.S. senator is taking over a committee on which he has served since first taking office in 2008. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said Thursday he is taking the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Tester, a Big Sandy-area farmer who grew up near Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, said he will be dedicated to working with tribes and his longstanding ties to Indian Country will lead to new opportunities for all Native Americans. “Working together, we will expand economic opportunities, create safer c...
A former Montana State University-Northern standout athlete and admissions office recruiter, accused of accepting a package containing more than two pounds of marijuana mailed from California, has been granted a motion that he stay in California pending trial The motion was granted less than three weeks after Joe C. Simpson II, born in 1990, turned himself in at the Hill County jail on an arrest warrant for leaving the state without permission, to spend the Christmas holidays in California. Simpson left the day after state...
Valentine's Day has come, and rather than have things ready ahead of time, most people will get their gifts and flowers for the loved ones today, causing a rush of business for anywhere flowers and gifts are sold. Angela Pratt, the owner of Angie's Wildflowers and Gifts, said today is the biggest day of the year for her business. "Sales are awesome," Pratt said. "Things are going great. We are so tickled." At 8 a.m. this morning, two hours before Angie's Wildflowers opens,...
For the sixth installment of this series celebrating the 150th anniversary of the creation of Montana Territory, news comes from the Feb. 13, 1914 issue of the Hingham Review. The front page contained several articles of local interest, including a big basketball game between the towns of Hingham and Joplin with Hingham easily winning the game with a score of 61-14; a monthly schools report and a column about state apportionment of funding for schools with Hill County's figure...
Once a Havre High wrestler reaches the state tournament, they find themselves facing an individual from another area of the state most of the time. Typically, it is an opponent outside the division for the Central A Blue Pony grappler. Most times, Havre grapplers have to get through Sidney, Corvallis, Laurel and the rest of the Class A to reach glory. Sometimes, the two going head to head for state supremacy have never even crossed paths in the past, but on some occasions the...
The Montana State University-Northern women’s basketball team knows what it’s like to be the hottest team in the Frontier Conference. But the Skylights got a taste of what it’s like to go up against the hottest team Thursday night in Dillon. The UM-Western Bulldogs won their sixth straight conference game by beating the No. 19 Skylights 70-58 Thursday night. The loss was Northern’s second straight, and it dropped the Skylights into a tie for third place in the league standin...
Friday High School Basketball Rocky Boy boys vs Conrad, 7 p.m. Rocky Boy girls at Conrad, 7:30 p.m. Harlem girls vs W. Point, 6 p.m. Harlem boys vs W. Point, 7:30 North Star girls vs Chinook, 6 p.m. North Star boys vs Chinook, 7:30 HLP girls vs Turner, 6 p.m. HLP boys vs Turner, 7:30 Big Sandy girls at R-Winifred, 6 p.m. Big Sandy boys at R-Winifred, 7:30 Box Elder girls at Sunburst, 6 p.m. Box Elder boys at Sunburst, 7:30 C/J-I girls vs Heart Butte, 6 p.m. C/J-I boys vs Heart Butte, 7:30 High School Wrestling All-Class...
The Montana State University-Northern Lights are no strangers to close games. But three weeks worth of dogfights and the Lights have now won six in a row. MSU-N was in another battle Thursday night in Dillon, but a strong second half, a stellar performance from the free-throw-line and clutch scores by Corbin Pearson and Roshawn West lifted the No. 20 Lights to a 71-65 win over the UM-Western Bulldogs. The win wasn’t just Northern’s sixth straight, it also gave the Lights a s...
University of Great Falls Head Wrestling Coach Caleb Schaeffer made mention earlier this week that the annual February dual between his Argos and the Montana State University-Northern Lights was a great way to kick off state wrestling week in Montana. Schaeffer, a former NAIA national champion for the Lights, couldn’t have said it better. Only the latest dual between the Lights and Argos might be impossible for the thousands of high school grapplers converging on Billings t...
With just two games left in the regular season, both the Havre High boys and girls basketball teams are heading for the finish line, each playing one nonconference game this weekend, followed by the regular season finales next week against conference-rival Browning Indians. But this should be a stress free weekend for both the Central A Blue Pony squads. Both teams will play in Rocky Boy Saturday night. The HHS girls (6-1, 10-6) will face the Morning Stars at 5 p.m., followed...
The last two months have been a great learning experience for the Havre High boys and girls swim teams. It was the first regular season that legendary coach Chris Inman wasn’t at the helm of the Blue Pony program, and HHS had a lot of new faces in the pool to boot. Now, the training, learning and growing is over, and first-year head coach Jill Cammon will take her Blue Pony teams to the Montana State Swimming Championships in Butte. The meet, which features all of Class AA, a...
