Crime

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors allege a Minnesota man stole more than $2 million from investors hoping to make money off North Dakota's oil boom. Fifty-year-old Ronald David Johnson of Corcoran is charged with five counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering...

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether a fire that burned more than a square mile of farmland north of Great Falls was arson. Vaughn Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jason McAllister tells the Great Falls Tribune (http://gftrib...

UPDATE 5:50 p.m. ET: Orlando officials have begun listing names of the deceased on their website.

OIL has a bloody history. The ghost of petroleum hovers in the background even of WARS that have liberty & democracy among their rationales. Blatant or veiled, the grab for oil resources has been a major factor behind many conflicts & military deployments. Oil's ...

The Montana State Parole board gave a resounding NO to convicted Montana murderer Frank Dryman recently, & this afternoon (Thursday) at 4:30, Dr. Clem Pellett, grandson of Clarence Chester Pellett, the man who the then 19 year old Dryman killed back in 1951. Wi...

It sure caught my attention when I checked out the Gabby Cabby's True Tales for this week on his website, gabby.com, so I think it best that I give the driver of the Yellow Mobile Conveyance Lounge a call on the "Horn" this afternoon (Monday) & find out what IS going on in AND outside the cab. I ...

That's what bestselling author Mark Greaney says after reading Sean McFate's "Shadow War," the new hardcover book that's up for grabs tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 7:30 on Puffman Sports Trivia. In this potboiler that went on sale NATIONWIDE May 10th, McFate, an 82nd Airborne Paratrooper turned Mercenary Officer turned Professor of War delivers his blistering 1st novel that poses the qu

DENVER (AP) — Newly released police reports show a Colorado corrections officer who killed a man during a shootout at a Denver motorcycle show told investigators he fired the first shot because he was being punched and cornered. A 195-page report released Tuesday says police proposed charging Derrick Duran with first-degree murder in the January brawl...

POPLAR, Mont. (AP) — The Latest on a criminal charge in the death of a baby on a Montana Indian Reservation who authorities say was killed by a caregiver (all times local): 1:45 p.m. A woman has been charged with murder in the beating death of a 13-month-old girl under her care on an American Indian reservation in Montana...

POPLAR, Mont. (AP) — A 42-year-old woman is due in a tribal court in Montana Tuesday to face charges in the alleged beating death of a 13-month-old girl under her care on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Investigators say forty-two year-old Janelle Red Dog killed Kenzley Olson and put her body in a dumpster before reporting her missing on April 19.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the federal prosecution in Nevada of rancher Cliven Bundy and 18 other defendants in an armed confrontation with government officers two years ago:

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Latest on the death of a 1-year-old girl on Montana's Fort Peck Indian Reservation (all times local): 2:50 p.m. The leader of two American Indian tribes says the alleged beating death of a 1-year-old girl and the recent kidnapping of a second child reflect a rising drug epidemic that his Montana reservation has failed to address. Fort Peck Tribal Chairman Floyd Azure say