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When it comes to winning the Frontier Conference men's basketball championship, it's been tough to pinpoint an exact formula. After all, the league has seen many different teams capture the crown over the last decade, including Westminster College, Lewis-Clark State, Carroll College, Montana State University-Northern, UM-Western and Rocky Mountain College. So it's safe to say no one team has simply dominated the Frontier in recent history. It's also safe to say though, the... Full story
Dr. William Rugg, most recently provost and vice president for academic affairs at Northeastern University in Tahlequah, Okla., has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Montana State University-Northern. He will begin work in Havre on Feb. 17. Northern Chancellor James Limbaugh made the announcement in an email to staff on Tuesday afternoon. A more detailed announcement would be made Monday, he said. Rugg was one of five finalists tapped for the post, vacated by the resignation of Rosalyn... Full story
Aubri McCann, Havre High Swimming Havre High’s Aubri McCann is new to the Blue Pony swim team, and coming from Chinook each day, McCann is making the most of her time in the pool. Off to a strong start this season, McCann was especially good in the pool at two meets in Great Falls earlier in December. At the Great Falls Quadrangular, McCann placed third in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:20.63 and sixth in the 50 freestyle with a time of 29.25. McCann is also a member o... Full story
KALISPELL (AP) — Montana Public Service Commissioner Bill Gallagher says he is not seeking re-election after the pancreatic cancer he was diagnosed with in June spread to his liver. Gallagher, a 54-year-old Helena attorney, said Tuesday he plans to serve out his remaining term, which ends in January 2015. Gallagher tells the Daily Inter Lake that with chemotherapy, his doctors have given him a 3 percent chance to live for the next five years. He tells Lee Newspapers of Montana he wants to focus on his work, his family and "... Full story
MISSOULA (AP) — A Missoula judge entered a not guilty plea on behalf of a 25-year-old man charged with beating his grandmother to death with a chair. Tyler Dan Perry is charged with deliberate homicide in the Dec. 14 death of 72-year-old Carole Ann Perry. On Tuesday, Perry's attorneys asked District Judge Karen Townsend if she could help expedite their client's evaluation at the Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs. Public defender Scott Spencer said he had been told it would take three to four months before Perry could b... Full story
MISSOULA (AP) — Ryan Burke spent most of New Year's Eve on the couch feeling sore and fatigued. But the Montana Griz wide receiver wants to make one thing perfectly clear about his heroic and exceptionally thoughtful gesture on Monday: You don't have to be a college football player to help save a life by donating bone marrow. "I'd rather do that than take a shot from Brock or Jordan," joked the gregarious redshirt freshman from Billings, referring to Griz linebackers Brock Coyle and Jordan Tripp. "I just hope this is an infor... Full story
The Havre Daily News staff voted on the Top 10 hard news stories of the Hi-Line over the past year. There was a lot of competition for the stories. Let us know what you think of our choices. Email us at [email protected] or leave a comment here. 1. Rocky Boy scandals It was a year of tumult at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. Federal prosecutors launched an all-out effort to weed out corruption at the reservation. Several people on and off the reservation were charged wit... Full story
HELENA (AP) — Senatorial candidate John Walsh misused his position as Montana's adjutant general by soliciting National Guard troops to become members of a private association for which he was seeking a leadership role, a 2010 investigation by the U.S. Army's inspector general concluded. The Aug. 25, 2010 report said Walsh, now the state's lieutenant governor, improperly used his government position for private gain, improperly endorsed a non-federal entity and improperly used government resources. He was not disciplined f... Full story
Havre police arrested a man, wanted on a rape charge, in Havre Monday morning on the 1900 Block of 1st Street Northeast, seven months after the original warrant for his arrest was issued. Donald HasEagle, born in 1988, was in the Hill County Detention Center this morning on $40,000 bond for a charge of sexual intercourse without consent and a $100,000 bond for a charge of violating conditions of a deferred imposition of sentence. The Hill County Attorney’s Office charged HasEagle in May with the count of rape. Officers had b... Full story
Havre Police Department Robert Manuel Arellano, 32, of Havre, was arrested on a charge of trespassing after officers investigated a 3:23 p.m. Friday call from 7th Avenue about an intoxicated man who needed removing from a residence. ——— Officers investigated a 10:38 p.m. Friday call from 16th Avenue West reporting a neighbor’s dog jumped in the calling party’s yard and attacked her dog. ——— Officers investigated a 4:32 a.m. Saturday call from 4th Street about a stolen handgun. ——— Kurt Allan Eagleman, 34, of Hays, was arre... Full story
Thanks to modern technology, everything can be digitally stored these days, and that includes great moments in sports. Even in the newspaper business, it’s no longer necessary to make a trip to the public library to find your great local sports moment on microfiche and microfilm. No, the internet certainly changed all that. And that’s really why there’s no reason for me to run through my favorite local sports moments of the past year. If I need to remember, a quick Googl... Full story
Shannon Nicole Rettig, 42, formally of Big Sandy, a newspaper editor who loved camping, fishing, darts, pool and animals, died Dec. 23 of natural causes at her place of residence in Townsend. Private family burial of ashes has taken place at the Big Sandy Cemetery. A Celebration of her life is being planned at the Fishtale Tavern in Townsend hosted by her close local friends at a later date. Arrangements were made by Stevenson Wilke Funeral Home in Helena. Memorials can be... Full story
Holly Ann Connor, 54, passed away Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013, at Benefis Healthcare in Great Falls, Mont. of the H1N1 virus. Her memorial service will be at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, at St. Jude Catholic Church with Father Daniel Wathen officiating. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery. The family has suggested memorials in Holly's name be made to the National Fibromyalgia Research Association, PO Box 500, Salem, OR 97308, or to St. Jude Thaddeus School. Services and... Full story
Lindy James Halverson, 67, passed away Friday, Dec. 13, 2013, in Bozeman, of natural causes. He was born Sept. 16, 1946, in Great Falls, Mont., to Allen Halverson and Neislena (Broesder) Halverson. He was raised his first 10 years, at Virgelle, Mont., then moved to the farm/ranch located nine miles southwest of Big Sandy, Mont., where he grew up and attended Big Sandy schools and graduated from Big Sandy High. He then attended Northern Montana College in Havre for two years. W... Full story
Local efforts continue this holiday season to help ensure people get home safely from New Year’s celebrations. Gusto Distributors and Havre Distributors have teamed up with the Hill County DUI Task Force and Havre’s Town Taxi to provide coupons for rides home from taverns, the Hi-Line Tavern Association is continuing to support designated drivers and Havre Ford is continuing its sponsorship of free rides for people celebrating New Year’s Eve. Tom Farnham, president of the Hi-Line Tavern Association, said this is about the t... Full story
CASSELTON, N.D. - Many residents evacuated a southeastern North Dakota town overnight after a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded, and officials warned that acrid smoke could blow into the area. No one was hurt in Monday's derailment of the mile-long train that sent a great fireball and plumes of black smoke skyward about a mile from the small town of Casselton. The fire had been so intense as darkness fell that investigators couldn't even get close enough to count... Full story
First it was Lewis-Clark State, now the Westminster Griffins are hogging the Frontier Conference women's championship. The two teams from outside Montana sure have made life difficult for the original members of the Frontier over the last decade. But if there is a team that can knock the Griffins, and even the Warriors from their Frontier perch, that team may exist in 2014. Westminster, winners of the last five Frontier titles, is still the team to beat, and LCSC looks to be... Full story