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The driver’s education class to teach future driver’s education class teachers wrapped up after two weeks at Montana State University-Northern. The class is a requirement of any Montanan who wants to become a driver’s education teacher. MSU-Northern is the only place in Montana that holds the class, which attracts people from all over the state every year. Those thinking of becoming a driver’s education instructor must already by a teacher in some capacity, said Susan Carney, one of the organizers of the course. As part of...
Your daily look at news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today. NEW TRIAL DATE IN EXCHANGE STUDENT SLAYING: The trial date for a Missoula man charged in the shooting death of a German exchange student has been moved up to December after District Judge Ed McLean last week scheduled a Jan. 5 trial date for 24-year-old Markus Kaarma in the death of 17-year-old Diren Dede. Dede was shot while he was in Kaarma's garage early on April 27. Kaarma has claimed self-defense. Dede's defense attorneys had...
The driver's education class to teach future driver's education class teachers wrapped up after two weeks at Montana State University-Northern. The class is a requirement of any Montanan who wants to become a driver's education teacher. MSU-Northern is the only place in Montana that holds the class, which attracts people from all over the state every year. Those thinking of becoming a driver's education instructor must already by a teacher in some capacity, said Susan Carney,...
A friend in Glasgow tells us somebody he knows has a son “moved away.” He went to Williston, North Dakota. Not that far away actually. His daughter, though, “stayed at home.” She moved to Missoula. Farther away, but, most important, still in Montana. There is something that binds Montanans, from Culbertson to Butte, from Whitefish to Ekalaka. There is a sense of community. A feeling of rigid independence, friendship, willingness to help and more than a touch of eccentricity. They say Montana is one community with very lo...
HELENA (AP) — The Montana Democratic Party has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission seeking an investigation into connections between U.S. House candidate Ryan Zinke and the super PAC he founded. The complaint filed Monday says the Special Operations for America political-action committee is coordinating with the Zinke campaign committee. It says the two groups used the same research consultant. Super PACS are allowed to spend money to support or oppose candidates, but they're not allowed to coordinate w...
I would like to thank the Havre Fire Department ambulance crew who responded to the emergency call June 1, 2014, at Scotty's Ice Cream. Thank you for your professionalism, expertise and understanding and for not letting me go home. While I chose to ride with my granddaughter and her boyfriend instead of being transported by ambulance, your kindness and insistence that I go to the hospital is the reason I am able to thank you today instead of residing at the morgue. To the Northern Montana Hospital ER nurses and Dr. Eric...
Another person has been convicted in the widening scandal at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. And two more Rocky Boy public officials have been charged with felonies. The scandal has taken its toll on morale at the reservation. Many people are upset that money that was supposed to be directed for pure water, health care and many other necessary services has been diverted to people’s pockets. The reasons for the thefts are many and complex. Many folks on and off the reservation are wondering if everyone in Rocky Boy gov...
A new sign recently placed on U.S. Highway 87 south of Havre points the way to Fort Assinniboine, the historic fort that was in operation in the late 19th and early 20th century. The sign is designed to tell visitors where to go for tours. The sign was paid for with the help of Central Montana Tourism, Havre-Hill County Preservation Commission, the Tourism Business Improvement District and the Fort Assinniboine Preservation Association....
Two people face charges that, one after another, they took a total of more than $25,000 from an elderly woman who asked them to help her with her finances. Eric D. Frickel and Trina R. Frickel face separate cases alleging each, at separate times, took thousands of dollars the elderly woman had asked them to help her manage and to use to pay her bills. The woman had not asked charges be filed against either Frickel, whose ages and relationship to each other was not available. Both were charged after separate referrals of...
A man wanted for leaving a Helena prerelease center faces local charges after he allegedly kicked, punched and tried to bite Havre police officers. Douglas W. Jensen, born in 1992, faces a felony charge of assault on a peace officer and misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass and obstructing an officer. Jensen was in the Hill County jail this morning on a $50,000 Hill County warrant and without bail on a Powell County escape warrant and a state Department of Corrections parole violation warrant. He was arrested after...
Havre Police Department Gene Victor Belcourt was arrested on a charge of driving with a suspended or revoked driver’s license after an officer made a motor vehicle stop at 12:02 p.m. Friday on 5th Avenue. ——— Officers investigated a motor vehicle crash at 12:15 p.m. Friday on Lincoln Avenue. ——— Officers investigated a 4:02 p.m. Friday complaint at the police station about the theft of two generators and a gas can. ——— Officers investigated an 8:09 p.m. Friday 24/7 Sobriety Program violation. ——— Officers investigated a 1...
I wasn’t in Havre this weekend, but at times, my thoughts sure were. No, I was in Polson trying to push my body beyond its limits in yet another tennis tournament I really wasn’t in the best of shape for. But when I wasn't on the court in Polson, I was thinking a lot about what was going on back home this weekend. Specifically, I was thinking a lot about the 2nd Annual Shaina’s Challenge International Men’s Fastpitch Tournament. And I was thinking about it for a number of diff...
It’s back to business for the Havre North Stars American Legion baseball club. And business means a difficult, three-day Northern A District road swing. The road trip starts today with a pair of conference games against the Tri-County Cardinals in Conrad. Havre then travels north of the border for games against the Fort MacLeod Royals and Lethbridge Giants. Havre currently sits in a tie for first in the district standings, but the meat of the North Stars’ schedule will com...
