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  • Old mining town fills with elite business leaders

    MATT GOURAS Associated Press|Updated Sep 15, 2013

    HELENA (AP) — Butte, a mining town almost a century removed from its heyday, is the unlikely landing spot this week for some of the business world's biggest names. Google's Eric Schmidt and Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg will be joined by CEOs from companies like Ford, Boeing, Delta Airlines, FedEx, electric super car-maker Tesla, ConocoPhillips and Hewlett-Packard. The glittering luminaries, drawn by the invitation of retiring Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, will be joined by other business leaders in an e...

  • More than 15,000 students at Montana State

    Updated Sep 15, 2013

    BOZEMAN (AP) — Montana State University has more than 15,000 students enrolled for the first time in the school's 120-year-old history. "The future is bright," said President Waded Cruzado. "There are many wonderful things happening." The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/1620PJ1) that Cruzado made the comments during a speech Wednesday on the state of the university to more than 200 professors, staff and students. Cruzado said the university has hired more than 46 new faculty members, and that students have w...

  • Saturday's Prep Football: Pioneers edge Bears

    Updated Sep 14, 2013

    Saturday's Scores The Associated Press PREP FOOTBALL Belgrade 21, Whitefish 19 Big Sandy 46, Box Elder 43 Froid/Medicine Lake 52, Circle 28 Geraldine 57, Stanford/Geyser/Denton 38 Roy-Winifred 44, Fromberg-Roberts 0 Savage 64, Terry 18...

  • Lights clobber Mounties

    George Ferguson|Updated Sep 14, 2013

    Six games and nearly four years. That's how long it had been since the Montana State University-Northern Lights had beaten Eastern Oregon on the football said. But an explosive MSU-N offense took care of that on Saturday at Blue Pony Stadium as the Lights thumped the Mounties 45-27 in their home opener. Northern took control by scoring 21 points in the second quarter. MSU-N led 7-0 late in the first on a Derek Lear TD strike to Orin Johnson. MSU-N then made it 14-0 early in...

  • General wolf season opens Sunday in Montana

    Updated Sep 14, 2013

    BILLINGS (AP) — Montana's general wolf season opens Sunday with much looser rules than in past years. State wildlife officials are seeking to reduce the predators' population in response to public pressure over livestock attacks and declines in some elk herds. Lower license fees, a five-wolf per person bag limit and a longer season top the list of changes put in place for the 2013-2014 season. The number of out-of-state hunters buying licenses is up sharply so far this year, with 370 purchased through this week compared to 5...