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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The South African presidency says the health condition of Nelson Mandela has become critical. The office of President Jacob Zuma said that the president had visited the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader on Sunday evening and was informed by the medical team that Mandela's condition had become critical in the past 24 hours. Zuma says in a statement that the doctors are "doing everything possible to get his condition to improve." Mandela, who became South Africa's first black president after the end of a...
St. Margaret Mary Church in Big Sandy will celebrate its 100th anniversary Sunday, and Margaret Grubb will be front and center at the activities. The 95-year old has lived through most of the church's history. She was born in 1918, the year after her parents immigrated from Austria-Hungary, and was baptized in the church. The church has been the center of her life ever since. “I had five children, and they were all baptized and confirmed at the church,” she said, and her hus...
ROCKY BOY (AP) — Rocky Boy Indian Reservation officials have suspended without pay the Health Board Clinic director following a federal indictment on charges she stole more than $50,000 in federal and tribal money. Tribal officials announced the suspension late Saturday of 41-year-old Fawn Tadios. Charging documents in an indictment unsealed last week say that Tadios stole the money to visit her husband when the ex-Chippewa Cree Tribal chairman was in prison for theft of tribal money. Prosecutors say Tadios used travel m...
A week sponsored to promote mosquito control is coming a little late for this region this year — with the heavy rainfall and standing water in the area, most local residents are very aware of the insect this year. June 23-29 is National Mosquito Control Awareness Week. Terry Turner, Hill County Mosquito District supervisor, said the pest — which can bring serious illness as well as irritation — is out in force well ahead of the week. He said the traps he is placing out — which normally collect 250-500 mosquitoes — are full...
WEST GLACIER (AP) — All 50 miles of Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park are open. The Missoulian reports (http://bit.ly/12huXwQ) that crews opened the last gates Friday morning allowing access to Logan Pass from both the west and east sides. But park officials say travelers should be prepared for any type of weather on the pass that's at an elevation of 6,647 feet. Opening all 50 miles is an important event because businesses in and near the park rely on tourists drawn by the scenic route....
A Havre woman is in the Hill County Detention Center, on charges that she tried to kill a family member. Cindy Stidham is being held without bond after she allegedly assaulted a family member on 1st Street Thursday morning. Details were sketchy and police were withholding information on the case. The initial incident report said Havre Police received a call at 9:38 a.m. about the incident. They investigated and took Stidham into custody. She was also charged with with attempted homicide and partner/family member...
HELENA (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Friday charged state Sen. Shannon Augare with drunken driving, obstructing a peace officer and reckless driving after the Browning Democrat allegedly told a sheriff's deputy last month he had no jurisdiction to arrest him and fled a traffic stop. The charges are misdemeanors and, if convicted, Augare would face penalties of between nine and 15 months in prison and up to $1,800 in fines. The U.S. attorney's office has requested a court summons be issued for Augare, said Assistant U.S. Attor...
HELENA (AP) — Former Republican candidate for governor Rick Hill is asking a federal court to intervene in the complaint over a $500,000 campaign donation he received last year. Hill says he wants the court to block new Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl from acting on the complaint filed by Gov. Steve Bullock's campaign manager. The donation came after U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell briefly struck down Montana's limits on campaign donations amid an argument the limits are unconstitutionally low. Lee N...
HELENA (AP) — Three former Blackfeet tribal leaders will serve three years of probation for holding illegal big-game hunts for country musicians that were filming an outdoors television show on the northwestern Montana reservation. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen on Thursday also ordered Jay St. Goddard, Jay Wells and Gayle Skunkcap Jr. to pay $56,625 in restitution. Prosecutors filed an objection to Christensen's sentence after a lengthy hearing in Great Falls. They had recommended 15 months of prison for each man a...
Children from preschool to sixth grade were invited to join St. Jude Thaddeus Church, Van Orsdel United Methodist Church, Messiah Lutheran Church and First Lutheran Church for Faith Alive Vacation Bible School, June 17-21 from 9 a.m to noon. Activities have begun every morning at St. Jude Thaddeus Church where the counselors, who are students from Flathead Lutheran Bible Camp, have led the group in songs and prayer. The three counselors who came to lead the Bible school this...
The Havre Plaindealer exactly 100 years ago today, June 21, 1913, was so full of local news, it was difficult to pick which articles to share with readers. R. X. Lewis was the president, with Sam Y. B. Williams as secretary-treasurer. A one-year subscription cost $1, six months for 75 cents, or three months for 50 cents. A single issue cost only 5 cents. On the center top of the front page was this article: Will Organize A Farmers’ Co-Operative Creamery There will be a m...
Every summer, there are two big pro rodeos which come to the Hi-Line. And while the Great Northern Stampede is still a month away, the first big rodeo hits Chinook this weekend. The annual Bear Paw Roundup PRCA Rodeo will take place tonight and Saturday at the Blaine County Fairgrounds. The event is one of the most popular on the Montana PRCA Circuit because of its big paydays and it’s challenging rough stock. This year’s rodeo is the 15th annual Bear paw Roundup, and rec...
Moving forward, the Havre North Stars American Legion baseball team will continue to improve. Wins have not come easy for the North Stars this season, and with a tough road still ahead, finding ways to win will continue to be tough. But the North Stars are up to the challenge, and they will surely be tested this weekend. Today through Sunday, the North Stars will be in Deer Lodge for the Deer Lodge Tournament. Today they will face the Butte Muckers, and will have several more...
Without a good coach, a wrestling program, or even an individual wrestler, can only go so far. Knowing this, the Montana State University-Northern Lights wrestling program has used this idea to put on a very unique summer wrestling camp. The camp was held in the MSU-N wrestling room on the Northern campus in Havre, and ran Sunday through Thursday morning. The camp brought in 30 young grapplers, but also brought in six very successful coaches, as well as another ten or more...
If I had known the experience would be so perfectly enlightening, I would’ve driven my new-to-me riding lawn mower sooner, but you never really can tell when your spirit will be lifted to the light by a piece of machinery, now can you. Two months the mower sat in our shop, waiting for me, taking the occasional excursion with my husband, beating him up for being a left-handed man on a right-handed machine — compromise physically impossible for either of them. Then it came to...
Laurel — “Winter in the Blood,” the movie filmed in Havre and other parts of the Hi-Line, received good reviews at the Los Angeles Film Festival and now is headed for Missoula. After that, it will stop on the Hi-Line, probably in September. Let’s plan a big welcome when the directors and stars arrive in town. Dart — The tribal government at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation has been having some pretty rough days recently. Both off and on the reservation, people have been critical in light of the recent indictments of folks — who...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a report Thursday at 6:33 a.m. of a wallet stolen from a truck on Wilson Avenue. ——— A Washington Avenue caller at 7:17 a.m. Thursday reported find a wallet, and officers returned it to the owner. ——— Officers investigated a report Thursday at 7:20 a.m. of a knife and change missing from a vehicle on 11th Street West. ——— Officers investigated a report Thursday at 8:09 a.m. of two vehicles broken into during the night and a purse taken from one of the vehicles. ——— A caller at a...
The 108-year-old Faber School, the one-room schoolhouse now preserved on the Great Northern Fairgrounds has gotten a new lease on life with a $4,000 grant from the Montana Historical Foundation. The school was in bad need of major roof repairs, and will get it with the grant, said Amy Sullivan, spokeswoman for the historical foundation. The H. Earl Clack Museum Foundation applied for the grant. The whole cost of the project will be $5,820. The school was built in the Bear Paw Mountains in 1905, she said. Years before the...
Montana’s jobless rate declined to 5.4 percent in May, continuing a downward trend, The jobless rate on the Hi-Line looked good as well. All Hi-Line counties had lower rates than the state as a whole. “Montana has added more than 2,500 jobs in the last two months, continuing the strong employment growth experienced in 2012,” said Labor Commissioner Pam Bucy. “Montana’s unemployment rate continues to fall, and Montanans are back to work.” The state’s jobless rate was 5.5 percent in April. The nationwide jobless rate went up...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is asking people whose property was damaged in the flooding earlier this month to fill out a form, which could lead to those people qualifying for assistance in repairing the damage. Hill County Disaster and Emergency Services Joe Parenteau said this morning that FEMA officials have been through the area this week, and will get together today or early next week to see if damage justifies a presidential disaster declaration. The...
