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MISSOULA (AP) — Missoula County authorities say an 18-year-old University of Montana freshman has died in an accidental shooting. Sheriff T.J. McDermott says Kole Swartz died about 3 a.m. Sunday at a residence in Clinton after a firearm he was handling discharged. His death has been ruled accidental. Swartz played football and basketball at Hellgate High in Missoula and was a redshirt on UM's 2014 football team. Officials at UM and Hellgate High say counselors are available for students.... Full story
MISSOULA (AP) — The Missoula County coroner is investigating the death of a male student at a University of Montana residence hall. Campus police were notified of the death at Craig Hall at around 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Missoula police and the sheriff's office responded. The student's name was being withheld until family members could be notified. Neither the university nor city officials have released additional information about how the young man's death occurred. Police Sgt. J.C. Denton says no threat to the community or c... Full story
HELENA — A House committee has rejected a proposed bill that would have studied the idea of the state taking over management of federal lands. House Bill 496, which would have created a "Transfer of Public Land Feasibility Task Force," failed to pass out of the House Natural Resources Committee on a 9-9 vote Friday. The panel then decided on a 10-8 vote to table the measure. It's dead unless the committee revives it or a super-majority of the House votes to bring it to the floor. The bill would have spent $35,000 over the b... Full story
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — Four members of a Montana family have been sentenced to federal prison on charges related to the embezzlement of more than $132,500 from the town of Brockton on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Desiree Lambert — the town's 59-year-old former business manager — received a term of almost four years during a recent hearing in Great Falls before U.S. District Judge Brian Morris. She pleaded guilty in November to fraud, embezzlement and aggravated identity theft. Prosecutors say she forged the mayor's si... Full story
The Rocky Boy Stars won two dramatic basketball games on Saturday, and in the process, earned a coveted trophy at the 2015 Class B state tournament in Great Falls. Saturday morning, the Stars toppled defending state champion Bigfork 83-75, and then, later in the afternoon, they knocked off Columbus 78-75 in double-overtime to win the consolation game. It was Rocky Boy's first trophy at state since they won the state B title seven years ago. Meanwhile, Havre was knocked out of the Class A state tournament Saturday morning by... Full story
The Havre High boys basketball team was intent on getting to the Class A state championship game and played like it against the Dillon Beavers. And when Nate Rismon’s final 3-point attempt was in the air, every Blue Pony player had to believe it was going in, only in the end, it didn’t. Unfortunately for Havre, Rismon’s potential game-winning shot went halfway down before popping out and giving Dillon the dramatic 60-58 win in the semifinals of the Class A state tournament Friday in Bozeman at the Brick Breeden Field... Full story
BILLINGS (AP) — The main runway at Billings Logan International Airport was closed for about 45 minutes Friday and two commercial flights were delayed after a single-engine airplane made a hard landing. Airport Operations Manager Shane Ketterling tells The Billings Gazette (http://bit.ly/1L8byLE ) that the pilot and his female passenger were uninjured. Ketterling says two commercial flights were diverted toward Bozeman because it wasn't immediately clear how quickly crews would be able to clear the runway after the n... Full story
BUTTE (AP) — Butte native Rob O'Neill, a retired Navy Seal who said he fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden, has joined Fox News as a contributor. "It's incredibly rare to have someone in a television contributor role with his leadership experience and expertise at the fighting unit level," network chairman and CEO Roger Ailes said in a statement Thursday. "His military insight will be a major asset to the network and we are honored to have him." O'Neill was profiled in a Fox News documentary last year in which he i... Full story
