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Defense in Sherry Arnold case seeks to avoid death

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:22:38 -0400

BILLINGS, Montana - Defense attorneys for one of two men charged in the killing of a Montana high school teacher said Tuesday that they've asked a state judge to rule their client ineligible for the death penalty because he is mentally disabled and to relocate his trial.

Lewistown woman drowns in Big Spring Creek

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:07:00 -0400

LEWISTOWN, Montana - Fergus County officials say a 37-year-old Lewistown woman drowned at a fishing access on Big Spring Creek.

Tester seeks constitutional change on corporations

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:36:58 -0400

HELENA, Montana - U.S. Sen. Jon Tester on Tuesday proposed a longshot constitutional amendment aimed at limiting rights of corporations to spend in elections.

Northern chancellor wants to drop secondary ed

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:04:20 -0400

HAVRE, Montana - The chancellor at Montana State University-Northern is recommending that 25 of its programs be ended or placed under moratorium due to declining enrollment.

Review: Use of force justified in Helena shooting

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:33:14 -0400

HELENA, Montana - A Lewis and Clark County sheriff's office review board found a deputy was justified in using deadly force last month when confronted by an armed man in the valley north of East Helena.

Appeals court: BLM must story more grazing plans

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:25:46 -0400

GREAT FALLS, Montana - The Bureau of Land Management must consider a wider range of grazing alternatives, including some that provide more protections for public land, when it reviews permits in the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.

Officials ID Ovando man killed in crash

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:19:12 -0400

MISSOULA, Montana - Missoula County officials have released the name of a 59-year-old man who died in a one-vehicle crash on Montana Highway 200 near Ovando.

Great Falls woman charged with DUI in drive-thru

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:58:27 -0400

GREAT FALLS, Montana - A Great Falls woman is charged with aggravated DUI after police say she was driving drunk at a fast-food drive-thru with her neighbor's young children in the car.

Man dies after being hit by train in East Missoula

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:25:04 -0400

EAST MISSOULA, Montana - Missoula County officials say a 42-year-old man died after being struck by a freight train in East Missoula.

Officials identify 4 killed in crash near Browning

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:25:12 -0400

GREAT FALLS, Montana - Officials in Glacier County have released the names of four of the five people who were killed in a weekend rollover crash near Browning.

Cloud Peak seeks 198M ton coal lease in Montana

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:08:15 -0400

BILLINGS, Montana - Federal and state officials will weigh in this week on a Wyoming company's application to lease 198 million tons of coal adjacent to a southeastern Montana mine, amid an emerging debate over whether the government is undervaluing the coal from such projects.

Beach will continue to try to prove innocence

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:48:12 -0400

DEER LODGE, Montana - Montana State Prison inmate Barry Beach says he will continue to fight to prove his innocence in the 1979 killing of Kim Nees of Poplar, but he'll have to carry on those efforts from behind bars.

Highway Patrol changes dispatch number

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:04:52 -0400

HELENA, Montana - The Montana Highway Patrol is changing its toll-free number for non-emergency traffic concerns as it changes its phone service company to save over $81,000 a year.

Blackfoot Valley man dies in crash near Ovando

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:12:16 -0400

MISSOULA, Montana - A 59-year-old Blackfoot Valley man died in a one-vehicle rollover crash on Montana 200 near Ovando.

Divers recover bodies of grandmother, 2 children

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:32:59 -0400

MISSOULA, Montana - Authorities in Sanders County say they have recovered the bodies of a grandmother and her two grandchildren after her car submerged in the Clark Fork River.

Study shows cow elk undaunted by river crossing

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:29:15 -0400

BILLINGS, Montana - Data collected from a study of cow elk show the animals are unfazed by the prospect of crossing wide sections of the Missouri River while on the move during spring months.

Montana leads nation in increasing 2-year degrees

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:06:19 -0400

HELENA, Montana - President Barack Obama set a goal early in his first term for the U.S. to turn out more college graduates than any other nation, but there hasn't been much progress as most states have stumbled in their attempts to improve.

Mont. man Falcon now in custody after brief flight

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:47:55 -0400

BUTTE, Montana - A 33-year-old Montana man was back in custody Saturday after initially fleeing from the courthouse where he learned he was headed back to jail.

Billings police recover items from church theft

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:19:04 -0400

BILLINGS, Montana - Police in Billings say they've recovered items taken from a church in a theft earlier this week that was captured on videotape.

Wild horses get used to life on (semi-) open range

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:32:12 -0400

ENNIS, Montana - A herd of 710 wild horses relocated to Montana is settling into its new quarters as workers erect new fences meant to reassure neighbors that their wandering days are over.