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HELENA (AP) — U.S. Marshals and police in Helena have arrested a man wanted on a homicide warrant issued in San Diego, Calif. The Independent Record reports 36-year-old Phong Thanh Huynh was arrested Wednesday at the nail salon where he worked. The warrant was issued Monday. The Marshals Service says Huynh is a suspect in a February 2000 homicide in Mira Mesa, Calif. No other details were immediately released. Huynh was scheduled to make an initial appearance Thursday afternoon in Lewis and Clark County Justice Court in H...
HELENA (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jon Tester says that he opposes a military strike in Syria. The Obama administration had asked Congress to vote for military action against Syria to destroy its chemical weapons. In recent days, though, focus has shifted to diplomatic efforts where Syria possibly could turn over its stockpile. Tester said Thursday in a statement that he has been listening to Montanans and is "convinced a military strike at this time will only make the situation worse." The Democrat says the best solution is p...
HELENA (AP) — A Montana Highway Patrol trooper alleges former chief Kenton Hickethier passed him over for promotions and tried to embarrass him in public after he complained about Hickethier's conduct at a training conference in Phoenix. The Great Falls Tribune reports (http://gftrib.com/14FWq3v ) the Department of Labor on Wednesday released the Human Rights complaint Trooper Glenn Quinnell of Glendive filed in July. Quinnell's complaint says Hickethier sexually harassed women at the 2011 conference and made a racist c...
HELENA (AP) — A judge has pushed back the trial for six people charged with fraud and embezzlement in a Blackfeet program for troubled youth. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen issued an order Wednesday saying the trial will be held on Jan. 13 instead of Oct. 15. One of the defendants had requested the delay to review government evidence, interview witnesses and prepare for a complex trial. The former leaders, consultants and employees of the federally funded Po'Ka Project face a combined 37 criminal counts. Former Po'Ka d...
BILLINGS (AP) — A former Crow tribal employee has been sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to his role in a federal corruption case. Martin Lloyd Old Horn is the youngest of seven defendants accused of stealing $500,000 from a tribal monitoring program that ensures commercial projects don't harm the reservation's archeologically or historically important areas. The Billings Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1b2sFvA) U.S. District Judge Sam Haddon sentenced Old Horn in Helena Tuesday and ordered $21,830 r...
HELENA (AP) — Blackfeet musician Jack Gladstone has invited a Louisiana oil executive to visit him on the reservation and discuss relinquishing his company's oil leases south of Glacier National Park. Gladstone wrote to Solenex Inc. manager Sidney Longwell on Aug. 30, telling him the company's drilling plans along the Rocky Mountain Front would "violate both the sanctity of this landscape and the treaty rights" of the Pikuni-Blackfeet people, the Independent Record (http://bit.ly/17Uq7uL) reported. "Sidney, my home is on t...
HAMILTON (AP) — Commissioners in Ravalli County have rejected nearly $50,000 in federal funding for women's health care. Commission Chairman Jeff Burrows tells the Ravalli Republic (http://bit.ly/13BgfX7 ) that he supports most of the services provided by the family planning clinic, but was opposed to a requirement that minors be treated without parents first being notified. The county's family planning clinic provides birth control, annual exams, pregnancy and pap tests, testing for sexually transmitted diseases, n...
ERIN MADISON Great Falls Tribune YAAK (AP) — Tom Oar has been living in the Yaak, trapping and tanning hides for some 35 years. Little has changed about Oar's day-to-day routine in the past two years, despite that he now has a film crew documenting his activities. Oar is one of six characters featured on the History Channel's "Mountain Men" TV show. Now in its second season, Oar has earned the reputation on the show as a friendly man with a bushy white beard who often wears a...
HELENA (AP) — The family of a woman who died in 2009 has filed a lawsuit against a Helena hospital and doctors contending inadequate care in the emergency room. The Independent Record reports (http://bit.ly/15GSIkY) that the family of 27-year-old Brittney Niccole Norton filed the lawsuit Thursday in District Court in Helena against St. Peter's Hospital, Lewis and Clark Emergency Physicians, and one of its doctors. The family contends that Norton went to the hospital on Oct. 10, 2009, with severe flu symptoms but wasn't t...
HELENA (AP) — The state is asking a federal court to dismiss former Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Hill's amended request that it intervene in a pending complaint over a large campaign donation. The state says that Hill's modified complaint doesn't change any of the underlying issues. Earlier this year, Hill asked the U.S. District Court in Helena to block the commissioner of political practices from acting on a complaint over a $500,000 donation to the Hill campaign. The donation came last October after U.S. D...
KALISPELL (AP) — Authorities say eight dragon boats each carrying about 15 paddlers swamped or capsized on Flathead Lake. Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry tells the Daily Inter Lake (http://bit.ly/1arxC1M) that rescuers responding on Friday got everybody safely out of the water. The crews were practicing for this weekend's Montana Dragon Boat Festival where the 46-foot-long, shallow canoes compete in races. Wayfarers State Park ranger Lyle Scott says the swamped boats had to be towed back to shore. Authorities say the b...
MISSOULA (AP) — Freight traffic resumed Friday morning after Montana Rail Link workers cleared the site of a train derailment in western Montana. Twenty-three cars of a 66-car freight train destined for Laurel derailed early Wednesday along a steep embankment above the Clark Fork River about 4 miles east of Superior. Four empty cars ended up in the river. Some train traffic was re-routed while other trains were held on sidings. MRL spokeswoman Lynda Frost told the Missoulian crews worked late Thursday and early Friday to r...
GREAT FALLS (AP) — A Great Falls teen who had agreed to plead guilty to raping an 11-year-old girl broke away from sheriff's deputies escorting him to court and jumped over a courthouse railing, striking his head on the floor below, a witness said. Kaleb Kuebler, 16, was in leg shackles and handcuffs Thursday morning when he got away from the officers on the courthouse's third floor and jumped over the railing. He landed on a second-floor tile floor, said Katie Kenneway, who witnessed the jump. Kuebler was listed in critical...
BILLINGS — A Montana judge appeared intent on trying to undo his lenient sentence for a teacher who raped a student, even as prosecutors pressed the state Supreme Court on Friday to stop him until their appeal is resolved. A resentencing hearing was planned later in the day for Stacey Rambold, 54, who pleaded guilty to one count of rape in April. An emergency petition from the state attorney general's office to block the resentencing was pending before the state Supreme Court after being filed at close of business T...
BILLINGS (AP) — The defense attorney for a former Montana teacher convicted of raping one of his students wants a Friday resentencing hearing cancelled. Attorney Jay Lansing said in a court brief filed Thursday that only the Supreme Court can review claims that the 30-day sentence given to Stacey Rambold was illegal. Prosecutors have filed similar motions. The office of Judge G. Todd Baugh, who has presided over the case, says there are no plans to cancel the hearing. Rambold was returned to Billings Thursday from the s...
HELENA (AP) — State health officials say the first human case of West Nile Virus for this year has been reported in Yellowstone County. RiverStone Health and the Department of Public Health and Human Services say the woman in her 50s was diagnosed last week in Billings. She did not require hospitalization and was expected to fully recover. Mosquitoes started testing positive for WNV in Montana in mid-July and the first horse cases were reported in late August. Most people exposed to the virus experience no symptoms. Some d...
MISSOULA (AP) — The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a $730,000 judgment against the state after a burnout meant to eliminate fuel available to a fire near Drummond in 2000 charred privately owned ranchland. Fred, Joan and Vicki Weaver sued the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation after a team of state-led firefighters from Florida set backfires on the 17,000 acre Ryan Gulch Fire, causing 900 acres of their ranch and timber land to burn. The lawsuit argued the state "negligently started the back-burn fire...
HELENA (AP) — The Public Service Commission is moving forward with plans to change its rule requiring disclosure of salaries for top utility executives. The commission decided Thursday to start work on a draft rule that allows utilities to ask that the information remain confidential. Commissioners said the new rule states that utility salary information is public, but gives utilities a way to assert a privacy interest if warranted. The current rule says the salaries cannot be treated as confidential information. C...
BILLINGS — A former Billings high school teacher sent to prison for 30 days over the rape of one of his students could face more time behind bars after prosecutors appealed the case to the state Supreme Court. Attorneys for the state and Yellowstone County say a minimum of two years in prison is mandated under state law for former Billings Senior High School teacher Stacey Rambold, 54. They could seek even more prison time for the defendant as the appeal proceeds. The case g...
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...
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...
An opposition group is pushing for the ouster of Blackfeet Tribal Business Council members based on a ruling from a court of elders. Roberta Crossguns, an attorney for the opposition group, says the traditional customs court banished Chairman Willie Sharp, Jr. and four other council members in an Aug. 25 ruling. They were replaced with a 13-person interim council that would remain in place until an election is held. But Crossguns says the sitting council has not recognized the customs court's authority and shows no signs of...
HELENA (AP) — Former state legislator Corey Stapleton says he will be running for the U.S. House instead of the Senate. The Republican said Tuesday he will defer to Congressman Steve Daines, who many expect to run for the Senate seat being vacated by Max Baucus. Stapleton said it is clear that Daines will run for the Senate seat. A Daines spokesman said Tuesday that no decision has been made. Baucus' retirement early this year set off a scramble to fill primaries for potentially two open congressional seats. Stapleton c...
HELENA (AP) — The state says more high school students are taking a college readiness test now that it is free. Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau says that almost 3,000 more students took the ACT Plus Writing test this spring. In total, 9,000 public high school juniors took the test. The increase also led to more students eligible for awards. The state says that nearly 1,000 more students also qualified for the state's "Best and Brightest" scholarship. And roughly 500 more are eligible for full admission i...
MISSOULA (AP) — The term "burnout" has been in the news a lot this summer. A Montana Supreme Court decision later this fall could change that, threatening a firefighting tactic credited with saving hundreds of home, the Missoulian reported (http://bit.ly/18oqDB2). Last month, Hotshot crews on the Lolo Creek Complex fire burned out areas of green grass, brush and timber between U.S. Highway 12 and the wildfire in the hills north and south of the road - eating up the fuel under controlled conditions, so there would be nothing t...
