News you can use
News you can use
Sorted by date Results 1692 - 1716 of 2820
BILLINGS (AP) — The FBI says dozens of calls have come into an automated tip line set up to help find missing Montana teacher Sherry Arnold. Agency spokeswoman Deborah Bertram says authorities are reviewing all tips that have come in so far. She urged people to continue calling with any information in the case. The FBI on Thursday issued a missing person poster for Arnold, a 43-year-old math teacher from the oil boom town of Sidney near the North Dakota border. Authorities are investigating the possibility Arnold was a...
MISSOULA (AP) — Doug Taylor remembers somebody saying a heartfelt "Oh Jesus" just as the Rimrock Stages bus careened into the median on Interstate 90 early Sunday morning. As the bus slid out of control, bounced onto its side, turned upright again and finally rolled onto its side for a second time, the 51-year-old Texan remembers experiencing two odd sensations. AP Photo/Missoulian, Kurt Wilson Doug Taylor, 51, of Austin Texas, describes the terrifying scene on Sunday morning, Jan. 8, when the Rimrock Stages bus he was r...
BILLINGS — Authorities expanded their search Monday for a high school teacher who's missing from an oil boom town in northeast Montana, after recovering only a single running shoe since she failed to return from a weekend run. No solid evidence has emerged to indicate 43-year-old Sherry Arnold was kidnapped, authorities said. But FBI agents were called in to assist local law enforcement in the case, and an agency spokeswoman said the possibility of abduction was under investigation. AP Photo/The Billings Gazette, Larry M...
MISSOULA (AP) — Eight people were in serious or critical condition Monday after the bus they were riding in crashed on an icy interstate highway in southwestern Montana, killing two people and injuring the 32 others onboard. The victims of Sunday morning's crash were a 60-year-old woman from Illinois and a 56-year-old man from Kalispell, the Missoula County Sheriff's Office said. AP Photo/The Missoulian, Kurt Wilson Officials remove two bodies from the scene of the crash of a Rimrock Stages bus that slid of an icy stretch o...
Sherry Arnold BILLINGS (AP) — The search resumes Monday for a Montana high school teacher who didn't return from a weekend run. Forty-three-year-old Sherry Arnold was last seen at 6:30 a.m. Saturday in Sidney. More than 200 people participated in a search Saturday that yielded a shoe believed to belong to Arnold's near one of her regular routes. Assistant Police Chief Bob Burnison says authorities had to turn away hundreds of volunteers who wanted to help search on Sunday. National Guard troops, a helicopter, several a...
BILLINGS (AP) — A Verizon Wireless spokesman says service has been restored after a Sunday morning outage of more than seven hours in Montana and northern Wyoming. Bob Kelley tells the Billings Gazette (http://bit.ly/yLV45O) that a switch failed about 1 a.m. during scheduled maintenance on the network. He says engineers fixed the problem by 8:30 a.m. Customers reported cellphone calls could not be completed after 1 a.m. and text messaging had problems. Kelley says the company's network team typically does maintenance and s...
MISSOULA (AP) — A bus crashed Sunday on an icy interstate highway in southwestern Montana, killing at least two people and sending more than two dozen to area hospitals, officials said. The westbound Rimrock Trailways bus crashed on Interstate 90 near Clinton, about 18 miles southeast of Missoula, shortly after 7 a.m., Dan Ronan of the American Bus Association said. The crash was one of several reported along that stretch of highway Sunday morning, closing a portion of the interstate. It was not clear if there were a...
MISSOULA (AP) — A bus crashed Sunday on an icy interstate highway in southwestern Montana, killing two people and sending more than 30 others to area hospitals, officials said. The westbound Rimrock Trailways bus crashed on Interstate 90 about a mile west of Clinton, 18 miles southeast of Missoula, shortly after 7 a.m., Dan Ronan of the American Bus Association said. All of the 34 people on board were either injured or killed. AP Photo/The Missoulian, Kurt Wilson Officials work at the scene of the crash of a Rimrock Stages b...
BILLINGS (AP) — Hundreds of people are assisting in the search for a Sidney High School teacher who did not return home after going for a jog. The Billings Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/AycLHY ) that 43-year-old Sherry Arnold was last seen at 6:30 a.m. Saturday. More than 200 people participated in the initial search Saturday, finding a shoe believed to belong to Arnold near one of her regular jogging routes. Sidney Assistant Police Chief Bob Burnison says Arnold was classified Sunday as missing. He says nearly 1,000 p...
EAST MISSOULA (AP) — Authorities say a fire in the back of a repair shop in East Missoula caused several small explosions and sent a thick plume of smoke billowing into the air before the flames were doused. East Missoula Rural Fire Chief Justin Shaffer says the fire was reported at Diesel Power Parts and Machine at about noon Friday, and the cause remains under investigation. He says the blaze appears to have started in a semi truck parked behind the shop and quickly spread to a nearby truck and the rear of the building, c...
BUTTE (AP) — An investigation has revealed a former employee made more than 100 unauthorized changes to grades given to 36 former or current students, who now face potential disciplinary action, officials at Montana Tech said. Chancellor Don Blackketter told the Montana Standard (http://bit.ly/xw8hVb) in a story published Saturday that results of the investigation will be turned over to authorities for possible criminal prosecution. Blackketter declined to name the former employee. School officials said no faculty members w...
MISSOULA (AP) — A University of Montana football player faces a charge of sexual intercourse without consent. The Missoulian reports (http://bit.ly/zefGoU) that running back Beau Donaldson, 22, on Friday was booked into the Missoula County Detention Facility with a suggested bail of $100,000. It's unclear if the arrest is part of the university's investigation started Dec. 14 into allegations that two female students were given a date-rape drug and sexually assaulted by male students. Former Montana Supreme Court Justice D...
BILLINGS (AP) — A dog that was feared dead after it was swept away in a weekend avalanche that killed its owner showed up four days later at the Montana motel where its owners had stayed the night before going backcountry skiing. Search and rescue team member Bill Whittle said he was "positive" that the Welsh corgi — named Ole — had been buried in Saturday's avalanche. AP Photo/Natasha Baydakova In this photo released by Natasha Baydakova on Wednesday Jan. 4,2011 showing a Welsh corgi dog named Ole that showed up at a Cooke...
HELENA — Attorney General Steve Bullock is holding onto his lead in the money race among gubernatorial candidates. Candidates for statewide office on Thursday filed their campaign finance reports detailing how much money they spent and took in over the last three months. The deadline comes as the 2012 campaigns start to ratchet up with the new year. Bullock's campaign reported raising $160,691.12 between October and December. That and the $549,242 he has raised to date are tops among candidates from either party. The D...
BILLINGS — The replacement of 1,200 wood stoves in Libby with newer, more efficient models has improved air quality, leading to associated health improvements for children in the northwest Montana town, according to a new study. Airborne particulate pollution in Libby dropped 30 percent over the course of the four-year study. The decline was associated with fewer reports of childhood wheeze, a condition commonly linked to asthma. Other health conditions showed less or no improvement. But study author and University of M...
MATT VOLZ,Associated Press HELENA — A Montana senator has revived legislation that would make sheriffs the supreme authorities in their counties. The bill by Republican Sen. Greg Hinkle of Thompson Falls would require federal agents to get written permission from a sheriff before they could conduct a search, seizure or arrest in that sheriff's jurisdiction. A similar bill was vetoed by Republican Gov. Marc Racicot in 1995. At Friday's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, dozens of people waited in line to condemn t...
HELENA — Montana Republicans focused on undermining the federal health care law advanced a bill that orders the attorney general to join other states in suing the federal government. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 6-5 on Friday to send the proposal to the full Senate. But Republicans who are arguing the federal health care reform law is unconstitutional may be running up against the state Constitution by trying to give an order to the attorney general. A staff attorney says the move could "pose a significant risk" of v...
HELENA — They call it the Constitution Caucus, and its message rang clear as veteran Rep. Krayton Kerns rose in the state House Friday to oppose a bill to provide counseling for children from violent homes. "Don't vote your heart on this one, vote your oath," Kerns urged his fellow legislators. "The constitutional vote on this is no because it will grow government." Rep. James Knox, a freshman Republican from Billings, couldn't have agreed more. Killing the bill wasn't the easy thing to do, he said, but it is why he and o...
HELENA — Republicans running the Legislature made it clear that their opposition to abortion won't get lost amid the push on leading platform issues. About two dozen Republicans appeared at an anti-abortion rally at the state Capitol on Monday. They touted several pieces of GOP-backed legislation that are likely to get support from most of the caucus. GOP leadership has put its focus on such issues as making it easier for natural resource industries to do business in the state and cutting the state budget. But Republicans who...
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Lawmakers scheduled to look at long list of DUI proposals this week were told that juveniles that kill while driving drunk in some cases need to be tried as adults. Rep. Janna Taylor of Dayton told the House Judiciary Committee Monday that her house Bill 18 would let prosecutors try juveniles as adults for vehicular homicide while under the influence. She said prosecutors are currently getting around the problem by trying extreme cases where drunk minors kill others in a crash with a reduced crime of n...
HELENA — Eminent domain is again a hot topic at the Legislature. Lawmakers are taking their first look at a bill from landowners and ranchers who feel they have been treated unfairly under eminent domain laws. The landowners argue those behind big projects, such as the Department of Transportation or utilities building transmission lines, can unfairly force them to take bad offers. State Rep. Kelly Flynn of Townsend pitched his proposed fix to the House Judiciary Committee on Monday. It aims to give landowners more power i...
MISSOULA (AP) — A woman told Missoula police that she woke up the morning after attending a party and felt like she had been assaulted, but she couldn't remember what happened, a police detective said Friday. The woman made her report to police on Thursday, the same day the University of Montana launched an outside investigation into allegations that two female students may have been given a date-rape drug and sexually assaulted by male students. Neither police nor the university has named the people involved and The A...
HELENA — A legislative measure making it illegal to kill an unborn child easily cleared its first committee vote Friday, despite being mired in the abortion debate. Supporters of the bill said it has nothing to do with abortion and noted the bill exempts "lawful procedures" from prosecution. But those supporters were unwilling to change the measure to clarify that the protected procedures specifically include abortion. "It has nothing to do with an abortion," said sponsor Rep. Keith Regier, R-Kalispell. "It places a value o...
BILLINGS — The federal government is considering moving dozens of bison captured outside Yellowstone National Park to federal lands in South Dakota, Colorado and elsewhere, according to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Salazar told Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer that federal officials are looking at all options for moving Yellowstone bison onto federally managed lands. That includes Badlands National Park on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and Great Sand Dunes N...
BILLINGS — The federal government is considering moving dozens of bison captured outside Yellowstone National Park to federal lands in South Dakota, Colorado and elsewhere, according to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Salazar told Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer that federal officials are looking at all options for moving Yellowstone bison onto federally managed lands. AP Photo/Janie Osborne,File Bison run near the entrance to Yellowstone National Park in Gardiner. That includes B...
