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BOZEMAN (AP) — Montana State University says one of its professors will ring the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday. The school says Myles Watts, a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, will ring the bell with Tim Buzby, president and CEO of Farmer Mac. The bell ringing is in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, also known as Farmer Mac....
A Havre man faces from 100 years to life in prison after being charged with possessing lewd pictures of a 16-year-old girl. Gary L. Peterson, born in 1967, is charged with felony sexual abuse of children, possessing and producing child pornography. If convicted on the production charge, he faces 100 years to life in prison. Police said he had sophisticated photography equipment in the home he shared with his girlfriend and her daughter. The equipment enabled him to take pictures through small holes in the wall, under doors...
KALISPELL (AP) — The Montana Supreme Court has denied the appeal of a northwestern Montana couple's conviction of aggravated cruelty to animals after 116 cats were found living in filthy, snowbound trailers. The Daily Inter Lake reports (http://bit.ly/11pSxhu) the court announced the decision July 2 involving Edwin and Cheryl Criswell. The cats were found in December 2010 and a jury the following year found the couple guilty. In October 2011 Cheryl Criswell received a two-year sentence deferred over six years. Edwin C...
HELENA (AP) — A Helena police official says authorities are trying to track down the anonymous sender of a package that caused the evacuation of the state Capitol. State workers were told to go home for the day Wednesday while officials checked the package sent to Gov. Steve Bullock's office for hazardous materials. Helena Fire Department officials say the tests came up negative. But Helena Police Capt. Curt Stinson said Friday a culture test is being conducted to ensure the package did not contain substance that could d...
HELENA (AP) — A Helena police official says authorities are trying to track down the anonymous sender of a package that caused the evacuation of the state Capitol. State workers were told to go home for the day Wednesday while officials checked the package sent to Gov. Steve Bullock's office for hazardous materials. Helena Fire Department officials say the tests came up negative. But Helena Police Capt. Curt Stinson said Friday a culture test is being conducted to ensure the package did not contain substance that could d...
BILLINGS (AP) — The Yellowstone County sheriff says a deputy shot and killed a man who escaped from Montana State Prison. Sheriff Mike Linder says an autopsy will be conducted to confirm that Dean Randolph Jess was the man killed. Linder says the man was stopped in a stolen Jeep Friday at an intersection near the Billings Walmart. Shots were fired when Jess refused to leave the vehicle and moved a handgun toward a deputy. Jess was working for the Deer Lodge prison's motor vehicle maintenance on a service call Monday when h...
There were long lines of people on Pepin Park’s east side Thursday. Folks were laughing, chatting and having a good time, waiting to be served hot dogs, hamburgers, baked beans and watermelon by volunteers at what has become a Havre Fourth of July tradition. No one was in a hurry. In the background, Allen “Woody” Woodwick was singing Gordon Lightfoot and Kingston Trio tunes at the gazebo with his 6-year-old grandson Ben, stage name Ben “Jammin,’” accompanying him on his guit...
Most every local golf tournament these days is a fundraiser for local causes, and a round of golf is certainly a good way to donate to a charity. But one of the most worthy of them all each summer in Havre is the annual Havre Women Fighting Breast Cancer Tournament. The 2013 edition was held Saturday at Prairie Farms Golf Course, and with 16 three-woman teams entered, the event raised over $15,000 which will go toward breast cancer research and awareness. The tournament is...
Havre Bear Paw Wrestling Camp Havre High head coach Scott Filius will be hosting the annual Havre Bear Paw Wrestling Camp July 9-12 at Camp Kiwanis in Beaver Creek Park. The camp is open to all wrestlers ages 10-18. Registration is $195 per camper. It includes lodging, meals, T-shirt, 14 hours of clinical instruction and four hours of live matches. Clinicians include Filius, former MSU-Northern All-American Chad Edgar, Great Falls High head coach Steve Komac, CMR head coach and former MSU-N AA Aaron Jensen, MSU-N head coach a...
The Havre North Stars earned a short break from baseball action over the Independence Day holiday, but will greeted with a tough Canadian road trip come Monday. Starting Monday, the American Legion North Stars will be in Canada for two days and four district games. Monday, the North Stars will face the Lethbridge Spitz Miners for two games, and Tuesday the North Stars will face the Fort MacLeod Royals for two more games. Both teams north of the border are going to greet the...
It is not uncommon for a coaching position to open up at Havre High, or any other high school for that matter. But entering the summer months, and with the school year to surely arrive sooner than later, the Havre High athletic department will be looking to fill several coaching positions. A handful of assistant coaching positions are currently open, but several head coaching positions are also still vacant. Currently, the Ponies, and Activities Director Dennis Murphy, are...
Laurel — All the community residents and groups who helped to make the Fourth of July celebrations a success deserve a pat on the back: the Havre Jaycees, the Woodwick family, the Blaine County Cruise organizers, Saturday Market folks and many others. Laurel — Thanks to the people who worked on July 4 so others could enjoy themselves: everyone from the police officers and firefighters to the nurses and emergency personnel officials. We appreciate your work. Dart — Former Gov. Brian Schweitzer was the rallying point in behal...
The Havre Advertiser, in its July 4, 1893 issue, encouraged people to participate in the Fourth of July celebrations 120 years ago, complete with misspelling: Let Her Go Everything comes to him who waits and the 4th; the day of carnival and general holiday is with us bringing its influx of visitors cordially welcome to our thriving little town. The citizens of Havre have responded liberally to the tune of some $500, more or less, towards the town fund collected with the...
Henry David Thoreau would not have sought out my pond for inspiration for his “Walden” book and a philosophical life-experience where he could retreat from the world for two years, two months and two days. On the other hand, for a person with less lofty standards the frog pond foots the bill. Murky, mud-bottomed and sometimes algae-covered, it isn’t much of a pond, even in wet years, and in dry years it’s just a dusty depression. The frog pond is a remnant, no doubt, of a by...
Havre Police Department At 9:20 a.m. Wednesday an officer initiated investigation of a sexual or violent offender registration violation. ——— Officers investigated a report made Wednesday at 10:45 a.m. that someone had turned on the outside water at a 14th Street West residence during the night and flooded the basement. ——— After a caller reported Wednesday at 12:42 p.m. smelling marijuana at a 1st Street Northeast apartment, officers arrested a 21-year-old Havre man on a Justice or City court warrant and a charge of e...
