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BILLINGS (AP) — The mother of a 14-year-old rape victim said a Montana judge was "covering his butt" after he apologized for saying her daughter was "older than her chronological age," as prosecutors said Thursday that the judge may have erred in giving the rapist only 30 days in prison. The comments from District Judge G. Todd Baugh in a case involving a teacher raping a student have drawn widespread condemnation from across the country. The 71-year-old judge attempted to q...
Montana State University-Northern Chancellor James M. Limbaugh sent out an email to the university staff and faculty at 11:30 a.m. Thursday saying that he is no longer a candidate for president at Louisiana’s Nicholls State University. “I am looking forward to continuing our partnership as we establish Montana State University as the university in Montana taking the lead to proactively address the cataclysmic changes that are enveloping higher education today,” Limbaugh wrote...
HELENA (AP) — Attorney General Tim Fox says Montana is joining Alabama, Alaska and Oklahoma in protesting Bureau of Land Management plans to regulate hydraulic fracturing on federal land. Fox said Thursday he and the attorneys general from those states sent a letter last week to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell. They argue that BLM fracking rules will duplicate existing state programs and cannot be justified. Jewell has said federal rules are needed to reconcile a patchwork of state fracking rules. T...
A Rudyard farmer, who was unable to harvest his fields due to two broken legs, watched from his wheelchair as his neighbors rallied at his farm to help him. The English philosopher John Locke once said, “To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.” This rang true for Joe Becker as he watched the line of his neighbors’ combines harvesting the fields he was unable to at...
BILLINGS (AP) — Montana prosecutors have asked a judge to keep the trial in the murder of a high school teacher in her hometown of Sidney, after defense attorneys sought to have the case moved because of fears of bias among potential jurors. In comments posted with newspaper articles about the 2012 murder of math teacher Sherry Arnold, some readers called for "Old West Justice" in the case and for the suspects to "hang from the nearest tree." But in court documents released Thursday, prosecutors argued to Judge Richard S...
GREAT FALLS (AP) — The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks is asking state environmental regulators to further study the effects copper exploration would have on two key waterways before granting a company permission to dig a mile-long tunnel. The Great Falls Tribune reports (http://gftrib.com/1a2Fhn9 ) the comment from FWP was among the more than 4,400 responses the Department of Environmental Quality received after issuing a draft environmental assessment that gave preliminary approval to the central Montana e...
If there is one thing that is going to help propel the Havre High volleyball program into a successful 2013 season, it is going to be senior leadership. The Central A Blue Ponies have quite a few holes to fill since last season, but with six seniors highlighting the roster, the Ponies should be able to escape without too many bumps and bruises this year. But with the varsity roster not housing a whole lot of experience, a winning season, as well as a top finish in the Central...
For several seasons now, the Havre High football team has continued to build the success of the program., but being bounced from the first round of the Class A playoffs is not a goal set by any team, and this season the Blue Ponies hope for deeper run in the playoffs. After a long summer of off-season preparations, the beginning of the 2013 season can’t begin soon enough. Like most teams from all over the state of Montana, the Central A Blue Ponies will play week one of the r...
The Havre High golf teams just finished playing 36 holes Monday and Tuesday at the prestigious Great Falls Invitational. But the Ponies are right back out on the course. Today, the Blue Ponies are playing in the East Glacier Invitational hosted by Browning. The tournament is an 18-hole event held at the East Glacier Lodge Golf Course, and it’s the first of two straight trips to East Glacier for first-year Havre head coach Brett Gilman’s team. HHS enters today’s tourn...
Week one was just one match to see how things went. Week two was an endurance test, with six matches in three days. But now the Montana State University-Northern volleyball team is really off and running. Friday and Saturday, the Skylights will play four matches at the Embry-Riddle Invitational in Daytona Beach, Fla., and all four matches will be against quality NAIA opponents. Friday the Skylights take on the University of Mobile (Ala.) and Ashford University of Iowa....
When the Montana State University-Northern Lights were getting set for their 2012 season opener, expectations and excitement were at a fever pitch. After all, the Lights were picked to finish second in the Frontier and were set to battle Carroll College for the Frontier Conference championship. But the Fighting Saints steamrolled the Lights last August in Blue Pony Stadium, and Northern limped to a 3-7 record. Fast forward one year, and Northern is again excited and again has...
Montana is in the national news once again, his time because of incredibly insensitive remarks by a judge sentencing a Billings high school teacher for raping a 14-year-old girl. District Judge G. Todd Baugh said the victim, raped by then-teacher Stacey Rambold, was “older than her chronological age” and had as much control over the situation as the teacher. It sounded much like the old “she was asking for it,” response that rapists often used in past years. This was a horrible comment to make is any rape case and was especia...
We have recently gone through a bitter conflict and unpleasant reactions to efforts to preserve native, beautifully pristine lands along the upper Milk River in north-central Montana. A century ago, our most famous historic figure in Montana made a statement that still holds remarkably true for such preserved and remarkable regions. Artist Charlie Russell observed the following: "Guard, protect and cherish your land, for there is no afterlife for a place that started out as Heaven." That observation applies to the badlands...
Havre Police Department A 1:04 p.m. Wednesday call from 9th Street about stolen fire wood was investigated. ——— A 1:28 p.m. Wednesday call from a NorthWestern Energy employee 15th Street West about a tech power box that was tampered with was investigated. ——— A man was arrested for obstructing a police officer after given a false name, and a woman was arrested for two charges of assault after officers investigated a 2:33 p.m. Wednesday phone call about five to six people fighting on 2nd Street. ——— Officers investigated a 5:...
My house sold. My business is officially closed. My belongings are going on the auction block. About the time of first snow, I’ll head south of the border, down Mexico way. I am currently filling the gap between leaving my house and the first frozen flakes of impending winter with sorting and packing. If I didn’t have scads of business materials and tools and equipment, and if I didn’t have 4,500 books and if every wall in my house were not a gallery, the job would be simpl...
The federal, state and county governments impacted by this year’s flooding are pointing to some successful work stemming from the last two floods, and looking for ways to reduce damage from future floods. Montana Disaster and Emergency Services Coordinator Ed Tinsley, who toured some work this week that was done in Beaver Creek Park as a result of flood disasters in 2010 and 2011, said preventing or reducing future disaster is a key component to recovery. “In kind of a wei...
State and federal officials working on the recovery from this year’s flooding said the damage was not as widespread as in 2011, but that is no consolation for the people and governments impacted by this year’s flooding. Montana Disaster and Emergency Services Coordinator Ed Tinsley said in Havre this week that the flooding this year does not compare to the dollar amounts in damage that flooding caused in 2011. The state knew flooding was coming but could not anticipate four days of heavy rain that blanketed the state, mus...
Noel Davidson has contributed much to the Havre community over the years, but one of his favorite charities is United Way of Hill County. So it wasn’t a surprise that he was the first person to donate to its annual fund drive — before the drive really began. “Every life meets its share of adverse experiences,” said Davidson, explaining his commitment to United Way. “No one is exempt.” “I admire the support and solutions that United Way provides under its umbrella of love and care,” he said. United Way of Hill County will hol...
The federal team helping assess damage and set projects to repair damage from this year’s flooding in north-central Montana is close to wrapping up. Final amounts for repairs are extremely close to the original estimate. Charley Baird, who is heading up the work for the Federal Emergency Management Agency out of its office set up in the National Guard Armory in Havre, said he expects that, by the end of the week, the total damage assessed from the 2013 flooding will be very c...
