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MISSOULA (AP) — The German consulate called for justice Wednesday after a homeowner fired four blasts from a shotgun into his garage, killing a 17-year-old exchange student who was inside. The investigation into the killing of Diren Dede of Hamburg should make clear that it is illegal to kill an unarmed juvenile just because he was trespassing, said Julia Reinhardt, spokeswoman for the consulate in San Francisco. "We consider what happened completely out of proportion to the probable risk," Reinhardt said. Dede's father, C...
(This story is reprinted with the permission of Lee Newspapers.) HELENA — A young man shot and killed himself after a 21-hour standoff with Havre police three weeks ago, and it got barely a notice in the statewide press. Yet this young man — Robert Thomas, a former prison inmate who had “absconded” during his parole — wasn’t just any young man. He was the central figure in a twisting and often tragic saga that began 12 years ago in the Missoula Juvenile Detention Facility, when Thomas and several other juvenile inmates acc...
BILLINGS — A former high school teacher who raped a 14-year-old student could be headed back to prison after the Montana Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that his original one-month sentence was too short under state sentencing laws. The court ordered a new judge to re-sentence defendant Stacey Dean Rambold. Rambold was released after fulfilling the original sentence last fall, and is expected to remain free pending his reappearance in state District Court. (Full story in Thursday's Havre Daily News.)...
Olga E. (Bakic) Mattson, age 80, an area nurse and farm wife, died from complications of diabetes on Sunday, April 27, at Liberty Medical Center in Chester. Vigil prayers will be 7 p.m. Thursday, May 1, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Chester. Funeral Mass will be 11 a.m. Friday at the church. Following burial at Chester Cemetery, a reception will be held at the church. Memorials may be given to the Hi-Line Health Foundation in Chester or donor’s choice. Arrangements are by Rockman Funeral Chapel, Chester. Olga is sur...
Terrance Bell, 79 — Indian name Travels Alone — beloved uncle, grandfather, great-grandfather, passed away peacefully on Sunday April 27, at Hi-Line Retirement Center in Malta. A wake will be held on Wednesday April 30, in Lodge Pole at Enemy Killer with rosary at 7 p.m. Services will be held on Thursday 1 p.m., at Enemy Killer. Burial with military honors will be at the Lodge Pole Cemetery. Arrangements are by Kirkwood Funeral Home, Malta....
Along with Havre’s school board elections, the surrounding areas also must make decisions on how their districts will work in upcoming years. Each district will conduct voting Tuesday from noon to 8 p.m. Big Sandy Voters will be able to decide if an elementary mill levy for $16,695 will be accepted. The vote for trustees was canceled due to lack of competition. Voters may submit their ballots at the high school. Box Elder The Box Elder School District has three positions available: two three-year positions and a one-year posi...
George Wesley Ortner, 77, passed away April 23, 2014, in Great Falls. Memorial services will be held Friday, May 2, 2014, at 1 p.m., at Chinook High School Auditorium, followed by a reception at Wallner Hall. Arrangements have been made with Edwards Funeral Home of Chinook. George Wesley Ortner was born Nov. 20, 1936, in Tulsa, Okla., to Omar Preston Ortner and Ella Mae Riley Ortner. He was their only child. He was proud of his Cherokee heritage and was an enrolled member of...
A motor vehicle crash that happened around 3:30 p.m. Monday between two white Ford Tauruses sent both drivers to the hospital. No report from the Havre Police Department has been released as of this morning. Thus, the names of the drivers and their conditions were not available. The collision took place on 7th Avenue between 1st and 2nd streets. One vehicle was pulling out of the Gary & Leo's Fresh Foods parking lot when the other vehicle struck it, possibly at a 45-degree...
The new airline serving smaller Montana communities including Havre has hit a few bumps, including adjusting to the weather, but the transition seems to be working, with passenger numbers up for Cape Air. The airline, founded in Massachusetts, took over Montana's federally subsidized Essential Air Service passenger flights in December, and brought usage numbers up significantly from the previous year. Billings Cape Air marketing manager Erin Hatzell said the company is...
Special Olympics began this morning at Havre Middle School and was expected to see around 90 athletes test their skills in various events. Mandy Hansen, a kindergarten teacher at Harlem Elementary School and volunteer coach with the Special Olympics, said Monday the ceremony begins with the athletes following a torch, U.S. Border Patrol agents and other law enforcement officers around the track. "We're going to have about 90 competitors from all across the Hi-Line," Hansen...
Havre High School racked up two Class A state championships during the winter sports season. And the head coaches who led Blue Pony teams to those titles were recently honored. The Montana High School Association’s Montana Coaches Association recently announced its Winter Coaches of the Year list, and both HHS wrestling coach Scott Filius and Havre girls basketball coach Dustin Kraske were honored. Filius earned Class A Wrestling Coach of the Year after leading the Blue P...
If the Havre High tennis teams didn’t get what they were hoping for out of last Saturday’s Central A Duals in Lewistown, the Blue Pony boys and girls made up for it in the Electric City Tuesday. Havre was in Great Falls for duals against Butte Central, as well as Class AA CMR and Great Falls High. And by all accounts, HHS head coach George Ferguson was much more pleased with what he saw. “We played a lot of tennis Tuesday,” Ferguson said. “And that’s exactly what we needed. I...
As the Havre High track and field teams keep chipping away at the competition-filled schedule, the Central A Blue Ponies also keep posting times and marks to be proud of. In an early week meet, the Pony boys and girls were in Malta Tuesday evening for the Malta Athletic Club Invitational. And with two great team performances, the Ponies returned home on a high note. The HHS boys finished in the No. 1 spot with 114 points, followed by Box Elder with 62, and Hinsdale with 50....
The Montana State University-Northern men’s and women’s golf teams wrapped up the Frontier Conference 2013-14 season with the annual Frontier Conference Championships Monday and Tuesday in Missoula. The Lights and Skylights competed in the final 18 holes of the 54-hole tournament Tuesday at Larchmont Golf Course. The Northern men finished in sixth place overall with a 1,013 team total. MSU-N senior Just Newton finished inside the Top 15, shooting rounds of 74, 76 and 78 to...
