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HELENA — A state senator and Blackfeet tribal leader accused of drunken driving and obstructing a peace officer is being excused from committee work. Democratic Sen. Shannon Augare of Browning is scheduled to appear in court next week on the on three misdemeanor charges. He allegedly fled a traffic stop on U.S. Highway 2 within the Blackfeet reservation's boundaries after telling a sheriff's deputy he had no jurisdiction. Augare was not at a Thursday meeting of the Law and Justice Interim Committee, his second missed m... Full story
HELENA (AP) — A survey of Montana students released Tuesday suggests that distracted driving risks and bullying problems persist, while some other common teen perils are on the decline. The Montana Office of Public Instruction said that the 2013 survey found some positive results in traditional risk areas. The number of students who reported smoking, drinking or using drugs continues to decline. For instance, the number of students who reported recently trying alcohol was at 37 percent this year, down from 58 percent in 1... Full story
HELENA (AP) — U.S. Sen. Max Baucus is asking President Barack Obama to consider Montana as the administration develops its policy to deal with climate change. The president has said rules are needed to curb greenhouse gases. Baucus sent a letter to Obama on Tuesday asking him to reach out to individual states and avoid a one-size-fits-all solution. He outlined 15 priorities for Montana. The senator says the president should approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline that runs through Montana, upgrade electric transmission lines t... Full story
HELENA (AP) — Police charged a Washington state man in the slaying of his 3-year-old son Tuesday, a day after he was arrested while washing blood off his clothes in a southwestern Montana convenience store restroom, authorities said. Jeremy Brent Cramer, 38, of Lacey, has been charged with deliberate homicide, Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Attorney Ben Krakowka said. He made an initial court appearance Tuesday, where he asked to be represented by a public defender. His bond was set at $250,000. The boy's mother told police on Mo... Full story
DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — Next to wedding gowns waiting for alterations, seamstress Virginia Wock has 10 bags of oilfield clothing in need of repairs. The owner of alterations business The Perfect Fit in Dickinson is in demand to alter and repair fire-resistant clothing for workers who come to North Dakota from all over the country. "I'm close to 40 states just off the top of my head," Wock, 66, told The Forum newspaper.The fire-resistant coveralls that are required for oilfield... Full story
BILLINGS — A proposal to relax gray wolf hunting and trapping rules in Montana got a cool reception from Yellowstone National Park administrators who said Monday the move appears to be aimed at substantially reducing the park's population of the animals. Wolves regularly cross from the hunting-free safe haven of Yellowstone into Montana, where wildlife officials want to drive down pack numbers in response to complaints about the predators from ranchers and big game hunters. Montana wildlife commissioners are scheduled on W... Full story
BUTTE (AP) — Officials with NorthWestern Energy say they aren't abandoning the use of coal-fired power even as the Obama administration seeks to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. NorthWestern CEO Bob Rowe tells Lee Newspapers of Montana that the company does plan to bring on more renewable power and continue programs that encourage energy conservation, but he says coal still generates about half of the power the company sells its 340,000 Montana electricity customers. About 15 percent of the c... Full story
KALISPELL (AP) — A Bigfork pastor recuperating from a torn Achilles tendon was in the right place at the right time last Monday to resuscitate and save the life of a Boston terrier named Dozer. Randy Passons, the associate pastor at Crossroads Christian Fellowship, was lounging on the dock at Yenne Point on Flathead Lake near Woods Bay while his 7-year-old daughter, Avery, and other neighborhood children swam during the heat of a near 100-degree day. Passons, still using a w... Full story
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.... Full story
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... Full story
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... Full story
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... Full story
MISSOULA (AP) — Authorities have canceled an Amber Alert for a 1-year-old girl after Missoula authorities say she was found safe in Plains. The alert was issued Thursday morning after the Missoula County Sheriff's Office said Jasmyne Salter's non-custodial mother, 17-year-old Kailee Marie Salter, removed a window and took the girl. Jasmyne was in the custody of the state. Missoula authorities reported later that morning the girl is safe. It is not immediately clear whether an arrest has been made.... Full story
HELENA — Appointees of former Gov. Brian Schweitzer shared the governor's campaign address and received contributions from an organization that Schweitzer was involved in, even as the governor was bashing other such nonprofits for hiding from state disclosure laws. The same post office box address is listed on Schweitzer's website as he considers a run for the U.S. Senate in 2014. If he gets in the race, Schweitzer would be considered the Democrats' best chance of keeping the seat being vacated by the retiring Sen. Max B... Full story
HELENA (AP) — An appeals court panel overseeing the misconduct investigation into former U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull says it has issued a new order in the Montana jurist's case. But the Judicial Council of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will wait 63 days after its June 28 filing to release the order, allowing time for a petition for review to be submitted. The 9th Circuit announced the council's order on its website Tuesday in a brief statement by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski. Cebull retired May 3, after the j... Full story
The Pepin Park Children's program and the Playmobile will be closed on Friday. The program will return to its regular schedule on Monday. For further information call 265-5781.... Full story
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — One of two people injured in the crash of a single-engine airplane near Fort Smith remained hospitalized Wednesday. St. Vincent Healthcare spokeswoman Lynn Ratcliff said the condition of the patient admitted after Tuesday's crash had been upgraded to fair. A second person brought to the hospital was treated in the emergency room and released. Their names haven't been released. The Aviat A-1B Husky crashed at about 10:30 a.m. on the Crow Indian Reservation. Authorities confirmed two people were on b... Full story
As soon as he turned 18, Dustin DeFord volunteered for the Carter County Rural Fire Department in Ekalaka, embarking on a career that ended Sunday in an Arizona inferno. DeFord, 24, was a member of a Hotshot fire crew killed battling the Yarnell fire about 80 miles northwest of Phoenix. Eighteen other firefighters died at his side in one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history. "He was one of the good ones who ever walked on this earth," Carter County Sheriff Neil Kittelman... Full story
BILLINGS (AP) — An airplane with two people on board has crashed at Fort Smith on the Crow Indian Reservation Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer told The Billings Gazette (http://bit.ly/14oKSOr ) the plane crashed at about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. He said he had no information on whether those on board were injured. Big Horn County Coroner Terry Bullis told the newspaper he had not been contacted about the crash as of 2:10 p.m. FAA records show the single-engine Aviat A-1B Husky is registered to a ranch n... Full story
DEER LODGE (AP) — Montana State Prison officials say they haven't received any significant leads in their search for a convicted sex offender who escaped from the prison in Deer Lodge and remained at large on Tuesday. Dean Randolph Jess was working for motor vehicle maintenance on a service call at about 11 a.m. Monday when he escaped, spokeswoman Linda Moodry said. The vehicle he was in was found a half-hour later about 1 1/2 miles away, and prison officials said in a statement Tuesday he disappeared in a rugged area c... Full story
Havre City Council took the first step in changing to nonpartisan elections Monday night when unanimously gave tentative approval to a referendum on the fall ballot. Two residents, State Rep. Kris Hansen, and former Hill County GOP chair Brad Lotton spoke in favor of the proposal. While the resolution's sponsor, Andrew Brekke, 4th Ward alderman and present GOP chair, was asked several questions, no opposition surfaced on the council. Full details in Tuesday's Havre Daily News and havredailynews.com.... Full story
COLSTRIP (AP) — After several years of taking a beating from the poor economy, new pollution rules and a flood of cheap natural gas, the coal industry was on the rebound this year as mining projects moved forward in the Western U.S. and demand for the fuel began to rise, especially in Asia. But almost overnight, coal is back on the defensive, scrambling to stave off a dark future amid President Barack Obama's renewed push to rein in climate change. The proposal, with its emphasis on cuts in carbon dioxide emissions from n... Full story
HELENA (AP) — President Barack Obama's goal of limiting carbon-dioxide emissions has put Democratic leaders in energy-producing states such as Montana in a bind, caught between bellicose Republican statements of a "war on coal" and emboldened environmentalists who are calling for swift action. That has forced leaders such as Gov. Steve Bullock into something of a hedge, telling the public to wait for the details of Obama's plan while assuring them that energy production will remain a major economic driver and a source of e... Full story
Complaint: Bullock campaign illegally coordinated HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Gov. Steve Bullock's former campaign is rebutting allegations from a Billings businessman that the campaign illegally coordinated activities with third-party groups. James Pennington filed the complaint in mid-March saying the campaign and several groups wrongly coordinated activities through political vendor Hilltop Public Solutions. The complaint relies on financial disclosure filings with the commissioner of political practice showing campaign s... Full story
HAMILTON (AP) — A former Libertarian congressional candidate from Victor has been reported missing. The Ravalli County sheriff's office is asking for helping in locating 53-year-old David Philip Kaiser. He was last seen at about 6 p.m. Friday and was reported missing Saturday. Kaiser is a white man who is 5 feet, 4 inches tall and about 200 pounds with blond hair and hazel eyes. He was last seen wearing a dark blue polo shirt, blue jeans and red and white tennis shoes. He may be traveling in a black and silver 2005 C... Full story
