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HELENA (AP) — An appeals court has delayed the release of a misconduct investigation into former U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull. Cebull retired May 3, after the Judicial Council of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals completed its investigation into a racist email forwarded by Cebull last year involving President Barack Obama. The council issued a final order on July 2, but kept it under seal for a 63-day review period. The Great Falls Tribune reports (http://gftrib.com/19jB3mG ) the deadline was Wednesday, but the m...
Patty Brannigan is restarting her “Free-Clothes Fence” at her home at 436 14th Ave. She said she will hang used clothing on the fence in front of her home. People in need of clothes can stop by and take what they need, she said. At the same time, she is asking people to donate any used clothing by dropping it off at the top of her driveway. She said she started hanging the clothes on the fence Sunday, and there has already been a response. “A lot of people need cloth...
BILLINGS (AP) — State prosecutors on Wednesday appealed as "illegal" a 30-day sentence handed down by a Montana judge to a former teacher for raping a student who later killed herself. The announcement came after District Judge G. Todd Baugh received widespread condemnation for the sentence and his comments that the victim was "older than her chronological age." Defendant Stacey Rambold, 54, last week received 15 years in prison with all but a month suspended for his months-long sexual relationship with Billings Senior H...
The Chester/J-I Hawks had a big 2012 season. And they continued on the opening night of 2013 with the help of star receiver Justin May. Saturday night, the Hawks beat the Chinook Sugarbeeters 16-12 behind the running of May. May scored three times on runs of 50, 2 and 7 yards. Overall, May rushed for 117 yards as C/J-I beat its Northern C rival for the second straight time and took the early lead in the Northern C standings. The high school golf season is young, but Havre...
It’s been a strong start to the 2013 volleyball season for the Montana State University-Northern Skylights and a particularly strong start for Northern senior hitter Abby Nicholas. Tuesday, Nicholas was named Frontier Conference Player of the Week after performing at a high level over the weekend in Daytona Beach Florida. Nicholas is a 6-0 senior right side hitter from Sandy, Utah. Northern went 3-1 for the weekend at the Embry-Riddle Labor Day Weekend Tournament. The S...
For the second straight year, the Tennessee Titans and the NFL will be without former Havre Blue Pony and Montana Grizzly great Marc Mariani. And for the second straight season, Mariani will be without football on Sundays. In a surprise move Saturday night, the Titans decided to place Mariani, in his fourth year in Nashville, on injured reserve for the 2013 season. Mariani, who made the Pro Bowl as a rookie in 2010, missed all of the 2012 season after suffering a broken leg...
President Barack Obama is asking congressional approval to make military strikes against Syria for its use of outlawed chemical weapons on its own people. Obama made the case for the actions in a speech Saturday. He surprised many critics by saying that he would seek congressional approval for the move, though he insisted that it is not necessary. Congressional leaders had demanded that Obama allow for congressional input, but from the reactions of many congressmen it seems they are caught in a quandary having to make the tou...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a two-vehicle, noninjury crash after a 4:55 p.m. Tuesday call from 2nd Street. ——— Officers investigated a 5:21 p.m. Tuesday call about a boy on a bicycle that had been hit by a car. ——— A 56-year-old Box Elder man was arrested for criminal endangerment, driving under the influence, reckless driving and criminal mischief after officers investigated a 11:52 p.m. Tuesday call from the hospital about a man who crashed his car into the emergency room doors. ——— A 23-year-old Havre...
Tony Lee Costin was tragically taken from us on Saturday, August 31. He was born May 7, 1962 to Norman and Janet Costin in Havre, Mont. Tony grew up in Havre, Mont. and graduated from Havre High School in 1980. He proudly served in the United States Air Force from 1985 to 1993 and was honorably discharged achieving many honors and holding rank of Sergeant. He made his home in Billings to be closer to his family. Tony worked for First National Pawn for several years and for...
Montana’s senior U.S. senator is bringing an impressive list of top business leaders to his sixth Montana economic development summit and is urging people to sign up before space runs out at the free two-day event. “For two days we’ll transform Butte, Mont., into the capital of the international business world,” Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said in a release announcing speakers and panelists at the Sept. 16-17 event. Along with speakers from some of the biggest and most powerful groups in industry, Baucus has lined up panel d...
The state’s oldest regional economic development corporation is moving to new ground and is setting up a contest to promote it. Paul Tuss, executive director of Bear Paw Development Corp., said in a press release that Bear Paw is holding a drawing for a basket of Montana-made items once its new Facebook page hits 400 “likes.” Tuss said the social networking site has become a fast, effective way to get information out to people, and Bear Paw will use it to let people know about important happenings in its economic devel...
The return of hungry students to the schools of Havre have the cafeterias, newly accredited by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in full swing. Debbie Otto, the School Food Service supervisor at Havre High School, said the school completed a certification program last spring that allowed extra reimbursement money to cover the costs of adding healthier items on the menus. Every school in Montana applied for the certification, according to Otto. “We bake 50 percent whole g...
The city council met at 7 p.m. Tuesday to appoint Rachel Rawn as the director of the Havre-Hill County Library at a salary of $32,000 a year, allow the Havre Art Association to place a sign on city property to advertise an art show and approved the August claims and manual warrants. The council will meet again tonight at 6 p.m. to vote on approving the budget for the next fiscal year. The budget is open to the public at City Clerk Doug Kaercher’s office....
