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Team hampered in Montana suicide review HELENA (AP) — A team reviewing every suicide in Montana this year has been hampered in its attempt to secure consistent and complete reports from county coroners, the team's chairman said. The seven-member Suicide Review Team, appointed in 2013 by Gov. Steve Bullock, hopes to discover how more suicides can be prevented. Dr. Leonard Lantz, a Helena-based psychiatrist who chairs the Suicide Review Team, told people gathered for the 2014 Montana Conference on Suicide in Helena about s...
HELENA (AP) — A judge facing suspension for saying a 14-year-old rape victim appeared "older than her chronological age" says he believes the penalty isn't warranted. Judge G. Todd Baugh (baw) of Billings proposed Friday in a written response to the Montana Supreme Court that it withdraw its order for a 31-day suspension. But he added he won't remove the consent to judicial discipline he previously gave. Baugh says he found no other cases in which the Supreme Court went beyond the recommendations from the state Judicial S...
KALISPELL (AP) — The two factions of the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council have accepted election results that will seat five new members of the tribe's governing body. A leader of one of the factions, state Sen. Shannon Augare, told the Flathead Beacon (http://bit.ly/1wSsxHi ) Friday the tribe needs a working government now. The current council has been in turmoil since it split in two last October over internal divisions. That resulted employee layoffs and payments withheld for tribal employees and vendors. On Tuesday, t...
HELENA — The candidates in Montana's U.S. Senate race traded jabs this week over campaign donations from politicians blocking the North Fork Watershed Protection Act. Here's a look at the week's most interesting and important developments in Montana's election campaigns. DAINES, WALSH SPAR OVER CAMPAIGN DONORS: Democratic U.S. Sen. John Walsh criticized his Republican opponent, U.S. Rep. Steve Daines, for fundraising with and taking campaign donations from U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania, one of three senators who b...
Dart — Judge G. Todd Baugh of Billings ought to try working at McDonald’s during the lunch hour. The judge has his foot in his mouth so often he will soon have athlete’s tongue. This time, he told a defendant who’d pleaded guilty to vandalism that in order to pay his restitution, he should give up his fast-food employment and “get a real job.” Fast-food workers have one of the toughest jobs around. They have to deal with angry customers who are in a hurry, uninspired co-workers, equipment that doesn’t work and supervisors w...
CUTBANK - People who have flown, whether as passenger or pilot, commonly comment at some point about one's change in perspective inspired by flight. They no longer look in the same way at the terrain, the sky or clouds, the horizon or distances. But to gain a perspective from the air on intangible things such as history, sacrifice and honor, it takes, perhaps, a flight in a fully restored combat airplane. Monday, the B-25J Mitchell Bomber called "Maid in the Shade" arrived at...
GREAT FALLS — A jury in federal court in Great Falls Thursday apparently didn’t buy Fawn Tadios’ claims that using tribal money for personal use was a common, accepted and legal practice at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. The jury announced it had reached a verdict at 1:41 p.m., barely one-and-a-half hours after leaving the courtroom to deliberate, convicting Tadios, 52, former head of the Chippewa Cree Tribe’s health care system, on all three embezzlement charges. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris released Tadios pending s...
Sometimes I wish I’d taken drugs in my youth — not that I’m advocating that behavior as a lifestyle, but it just seems like such a white-bread cliché to blame my chronic airheadedness on being a natural blonde. And I’ve met my parents, known them since birth (my birth). They seem to be reasonably intelligent people, so it’s highly unlikely that it’s a genetic problem. I didn’t have children so I can’t blame them somehow, like they can alter human genetics retroactively. M...
For this 25th installment celebrating Montana Territory’s 150th anniversary, we go back to Hingham. In the June 26, 1914 issue of the Hingham Review, we find, complete with misspelling: About The Park We are truly glad to see the grass growing in the park this year and not so many weeds. It took the grass two years to get a firm root, but it seems it has now taken possession of the soil. Our one antelope is making a splendid effort to keep it eaten down, but seems to be incapable of eating so much grass. About one-third of t...
With the conviction of Fawn Tadios Thursday in federal court in Great Falls, the first round of Rocky Boy embezzlement cases, filed in 2013, is closed, but the next round is underway. In April of last year, Chippewa Cree Tribe’s Business Committee member John “Chance” Houle, former council member and state Rep. Tony Belcourt, head of the Chippewa Cree Construction Corp., his wife, Hailey Belcourt, and James Howard Eastlick Sr. and his daughter and ex-son-in-law, Tammy and Mark Leischner, all of Laurel, were indicted on charg...
Havre Police Department Larry James Piapot, 62, of Rocky Boy was arrested on a charge of criminal contempt after officers responded to a 1:25 p.m. Thursday call from 14th Avenue about an intoxicated man falling down in the parking lot. ——— Officers investigated a 5:48 p.m. Thursday call from a 1st Street West business about the calling party wanting to speak about a man harassing him. ——— Angela Claire Morsette, 36, of Havre was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct after officers responded to an 11:35 p.m. Thursday ca...
An outbreak of illness has spread through the residents and employees of the Eagles Manor. The dining room at the retirement center was closed Thursday and will be closed today as well. “Just because we want to stop this flu and keep it from spreading,” Dee Miller, an administrative assistant at Eagles Manor said. Miller said Thursday that around 25 people have fallen ill the last couple days and their closing off the dining area is a method to keep others from contracting the sickness. “We have had so many people get sick...
It is with great sorrow that the family of Beverly (Bev) Westfall Boucher, 75 years young, of Havre, Montana passed away surrounded by her family on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at Benefis Hospital in Great Falls, Montana from complications of cancer. Cremation has taken place and as per Beverly’s request, no formal services will be held, a remembrance gathering will be held at Bill and Colleen Patera’s residence at Saddle Butte on July 19, 2014, from 1 to 5 p.m. Beverly was born on November 3, 1938 in Minot, North Dakota, to Ler...
Teenagers affiliated with the Church of Latter-day Saints from throughout north-central Montana — including those from Havre, Chinook, Malta and Big Sandy — are on a three-day adventure. The young people will be experiencing what life was like when their ancestors traveled with Brigham Young from Nauvoo, Ill., to Salt Lake City in 1847. They will carry supplies in a handcart, sleep under the stars, cook their meals by campfire and travel about seven miles per day. They will be dressed in pioneer clothing and the han...
Havre Bear Paw Wrestling Camp Scott Filius, head coach of the 9-time state champion Blue Pony wrestling program, is once again conducting the annual Bear Paw Wrestling Camp. The camp will run July 9-12 and is held at the scenic Camp Kiwanis in Beaver Creek Park. The camp is open to wrestlers ages 10-18. Instructors for this year’s camp include Filius, HHS assistant coach Chad Edgar, assistant coach and former Blue Pony state champ Evan Hinebauch, HHS assistant and former Blue Pony state champ Beau LaSalle, Steve Komac, h...
Back in the spring, the Montana High School Association announced that two more Class A schools were dropping to Class B. The latest changes came with Libby and Anaconda, two schools which were once Class AA many years ago. With those two schools set to leave the Class A ranks for the 2015-16 school year, Class A will be left with just 20 members. And from an athletics standpoint, some changes were going to be needed. However, following Class A meetings held early last week...
As the head tennis coach at Havre High School, I obviously have a vested interest in any changes coming to Class A. But if tennis weren’t in my life, I’d still have the same vested interest. And that’s why I find the proposed changes to some of the structure to Class A, which, if approved by the Montana High School Association, will take place in the 2015-16 school year, fascinating. It’s become plainly obvious that change is needed. Class A is down to a mere 20 schools, and w...
