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HELENA (AP) — Gov. Steve Bullock has ordered that flags be flown at half-staff Wednesday to honor six people, including the Three Forks fire chief, who were killed in a crash east of Helena last week. Authorities continue to investigate Thursday's crash between a pickup truck carrying a family of five and a fire engine driven by Chief Todd Rummel. A funeral service for Rummel is scheduled for Wednesday in Three Forks. Funerals for Matthew Boegli, Crystal Ross and their three young children are scheduled for Thursday in H...
BC-MT--5 Things to Know in Montana-Wednesday/341 Your daily look at news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today. FUNERAL FOR THREE FORKS FIRE CHIEF: A funeral is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon in Three Forks for fire chief Todd Rummel, who died last Thursday in a collision that also killed a family of five from Townsend. The service will be held at the town's high school. Investigators say they are being meticulous in their effort to determine what caused the fiery crash between the fire engine...
A member of the Chippewa Cree Tribe’s governing council pleaded not guilty to new charges this morning in federal court in Great Falls. John “Chance” Houle, a member and former chair of the Business Committee at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. was arraigned in three separate cases this morning, pleading not guilty to all charges. Houle declined to comment after the hearing. Houle waived a reading of the charges and details were not available by printing deadline this morning. A codefendant did not appear at the arraignment th...
HELENA (AP) — The leaders and two employees of a Blackfeet Indian project for troubled youth were sentenced Tuesday for their roles in defrauding the federally funded program. Francis Onstad and Delyle "Shanny" Augare pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to defraud the U.S., conspiracy to submit false claims, embezzlement from a federally funded program and income tax evasion. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris sentenced Augare to 3 ½ years and Onstad to just over two years in prison, and he ordered them both to pay $1 mi...
Charges against Houle unsealed by Tim Leeds Federal charges against a Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation tribal council member have been unsealed, although indictments in two cases remain sealed until his codefendants appear to enter a plea. John “Chance” Houle, a member of the Chippewa Cree Tribe’s Business Committee, and a former chair of that committee, pleaded not guilty this morning in federal Districrt Court in Great Falls to all charges in three cases against him. Houle was indicted last year in a case alleging he was invo...
BILLINGS (AP) — Disclosures from railroads about volatile oil shipments from the Northern Plains show dozens of the trains passing weekly through Illinois and the Midwest and up to 19 a week reaching Washington state on the West Coast. The Associated Press obtained details on the shipments Tuesday under public records requests filed with state emergency officials. Details on the shipments were turned over to states under an order from the U.S. Department of Transportation. That came after fiery accidents including an oil t...
Montana Range Days began Monday at Camp Kiwanis in Beaver Creek Park, teaching students of all ages to identify up to 100 plants. Jan Pratt, a member of the board of directors for Range Days, said the adults and high school students learned about 100 plants Monday and the 9- to 11-year-olds learned about 30. "This is a real family event," Pratt said. This is Pratt's 25th Range Days event, she said. The program chooses a host town every two years and holds the event there for...
HELENA (AP) — Montana officials said Tuesday they are notifying 1.3 million people that their personal information could have been accessed by hackers who broke into a state health department computer server. The letters are going to people whose information and records were on the server. There's no evidence so far that any information was stolen, officials said Tuesday. "There is no information, no indication, that the hackers really accessed any of this information or used it inappropriately," said Richard Opper, d...
The power outage that took out the power across the Hi-Line from Chester to Glasgow was caused by a problem in the Fort Assinniboine substation. NorthWestern Energy spokesperson Claudia Rapkoch said the outage was caused by a security measure that shuts the system down if it detects a problem. The safety feature detected a problem in one of the lines to the Fort Assinniboine substation and kicked in. “When that system senses a problem, for whatever reason, it will isolate the problem by essentially shutting itself off,” Rap...
Havre Police Department Officers responded to an 9:52 a.m. Monday call from 3rd Avenue about a possible identity theft. ——— Eleven Rae Lewis, 38, of Havre was arrested on charges of driving under the influence and criminal contempt after an officer initiated an investigation at 12:01 p.m. Monday on 2nd Street. ——— Avery Joseph Christianson, 21, of Havre was arrested on charges of assault with a weapon, partner or family member assault and assault after officers responded to a 9:20 p.m. Monday call from 11th Street abou...
A Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep ram grazes by the side of a road Sunday in the Lewis and Clark National Forest. Northwest of Choteau, near Teton Peak, bighorn sheep are plentiful. The sheep - which can weigh up to 500 pounds - were unfazed by passing vehicles and took their time getting out of the road, making for good photo opportunities....
Hill County Electric Cooperative will have power interrupted to members served by the Havre substation Saturday, while Western Area Power Administration works on the substation. The interruption will begin at 9 a.m. and may last until 7 p.m. HCE members affected will receive a postcard and a phone message. Below are some tips from the Red Cross website on food safety during an extended interruption in power: • Have coolers and ice available for extended power interruptions. • Keep doors closed on refrigerator and fre...
A gas line break in Chester closed down U.S. Highway 2 Monday and forced Stricks Ag to evacuate its building. A NorthWestern Energy spokesperson reported that the line break was caused by a third-party contractor who was boring in the area to install a fiber optic cable when they broke the line. Employees at Stricks said there was a strong odor of natural gas when the line broke, but it dissipated by 5 p.m. David Basic, the manager at Stricks Ag, said the gas line broke a...
A Havre High School student and his father are charged in separate cases alleging the youth raped a Havre High School girl and he and his father both told the girl not to go to the police. Ryan Holsapple, 17, at the time of the alleged incident, and his father Jeffrey Holsapple, age not available, both were charged in state District Court in Havre. Ryan Holsapple is charged with felony counts of sexual intercourse without consent and tampering with a witness and a misdemeanor count of partner or family member assault....
Montana State University-Northern men’s basketball coach Shawn Huse held his annual Lights Team Camp over the weekend. The camp ran Thursday through Saturday at the Armory Gymnasium. Huse said the camp had a different format this year, as players from high schools were put onto different rosters for the team tournament, instead of high school teams competing against each other. In the 5-on-5 team tournament, Team Clippers beat Team Spurs 73-66 in overtime in the c...
Rain, and lots of it was the story line on the local golf scene this past week. But while local golf courses saw heavy rain early in the week, the sun and fun returned just in time for the weekend. This past Saturday at Prairie Farms Golf Course, the NLASF Scramble was held and the 18-hole tournament was an outstanding success as it always is. The annual tourney helps raise much-needed funds for MSU-Northern athletic scholarships across the board. First place in the...
