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Your daily look at news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today. NUNS ASK FOR NEW ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS IN SEX-ABUSE CASE: Attorneys for an order of nuns plan to ask a judge Thursday for a new round of negotiations to settle claims of child sex abuse by priests and nuns in Montana, a request that comes less than three weeks before the first trial. The first three plaintiffs who say they were abused as children in western Montana are scheduled to go to trial July 14. Additional trials with similarly...
GREAT FALLS - Two Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation leaders face embezzlement charges in Federal District Court in Great Falls. One was arrested Tuesday after he failed to show for Tuesday morning's arraignment. Bruce Harold Sunchild, 69, a former chair of the Chippewa Cree Tribe's Business Committee, was arrested Tuesday after he failed to appear at the arraignment. His arraignment then was reset for 3 p.m. Tuesday. John "Chance" Houle, a member and former chair of that...
UPDATE: This morning the judge ordered the trial to start. Opening arguments are being held this afternoon. The trial of a woman accused of embezzling money while head of Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation’s health department is set to start today, although Tuesday she filed an objection to the start of the trial and once again filed a complaint against her court-appointed attorney. Fawn Tadios is charged with using health department money to visit her husband while he was serving a sentence at a Yankton, South Dakota, fed...
I am writing to thank the Havre Daily News for taking legal action to make public the allegation of human rights abuses at Montana State University-Northern. The taxpayers of Montana fund the public university system, and we have the right to know what is happening in our public universities. I have had concerns for some time now that the commissioner of higher education and the Board of Regents seem to sweep serious problems in our universities under the rug. Why are the hard-working taxpayers of Montana being forced to...
Havre Police Department Casey Owen Mummey, 34, of Havre was arrested at the police station at 8:23 a.m. Tuesday on a charge of criminal contempt after a 24/7 Sobriety Program violation. ——— Officers investigated a 9:26 a.m. Tuesday call from 5th Avenue about a motor vehicle accident. ——— Chad Julian Cochran, 34, of Harlem was arrested on a state District Court warrant after an officer initiated an investigation at 11:59 a.m. Tuesday at a 1st Street business. ——— Raistlen Paul Katka, 22, of Havre was arrested on a cha...
A memorial service for LaRena Stewart will be June 28 at 1 p.m. at Upsata Lake, Montana....
Officials at Fort Belknap Indian Reservation are ready to launch a massive land buy-back program with funds allocated to the reservation under a federal lawsuit. People on the reservation and throughout the United States own small parcels, sometimes less than a quarter acre, that the tribe hopes to buy back, consolidate and convert into useful property, said Margey Bell Azure, a realty specialist for the reservation’s Tribal Land Department. The money was allocated to the tribe through the terms of a settlement in a f...
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...
A security breach has apparently leaked Social Security and bank account information of Havre Public Schools employees who use direct deposit to an unknown third party. Employees are being urged to follow the steps posted on the school district’s website and to change their account information they have linked to have their pay direct deposited, said School Superintendent Andy Carlson at Tuesday’s school board meeting. Black Mountain, the company that handles employee information, is setting up measures to protect the dis...
The Havre North Stars American Legion baseball club had an unscheduled day off Monday. But when Tuesday rolled around, the North Stars found themselves in a pair of tough battles at home. The visiting Missoula Prospects made life tough on the North Stars Tuesday at Legion Field, but Havre still found a way to earn a hard-fought split at home. The North Stars earned a dramatic 2-1 win in extra innings in the first game of Tuesday’s doubleheader, but they fell short in the n...
