State News

The 2013 International Pedigree Stage Stop Sled Dog Race begins this evening (6:00pm MST) at Jackson, Wyoming. Over the next week, 23 teams will race over a nearly 350-miles course that includes eight checkpoints and runs through portions of four states, ending in Evanston, Wyoming next weekend

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There's going to be a pool tournament benefit for Julia Winney coming up this weekend. Young Julia, was severely burned in a fire in her Conrad home over the Christmas holidays. The pool tournament is set to roll this Saturday at the Highway Tavern in Conrad with the 1st game kicking off at 11 in the morning

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MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A pawned ukulele was instrumental in the arrest of a Missoula man suspected in three home burglaries over the past six weeks. The Missoulian reports 57-year-old John Jesse O'Shea is jailed on $50,000 bail after being charged with two counts of burglary and one count of theft

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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Crow Tribe is expected to sign an agreement today giving a Wyoming mining company rights to lease an estimated 1.4 billion tons of coal beneath the tribe's southeastern Montana reservation

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Often times on Tuesdays, I do a blog about Tuesday evening "Montana History" up at the Marias Heritage Center. Today is no different...I'll be at the Heritage Center this evening at 6 reading more Montana History & continuing with the book, "Nothing To Tell-Extraordinary Stories of Montana Ranch Women" by Donna Gray but there are SO many other activities for the residents up at the Heritage in addition to Montana History. Th

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(Information in the following story is from: The Daily Herald, http://www.heraldnet.com)

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — After seven public meetings across Washington about a proposed coal export terminal near Bellingham, more than 14,000 comments have been collected

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(Information in the following story is from: Billings Gazette, http://www.billingsgazette.com)

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Authorities say a body found near Shepherd may be that of an Illinois man kidnapped from a Billings hotel room

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Arlee 79, Hot Springs 67

Baker 57, Colstrip 54

Belt 51, Highwood 49, OT

Billings West 67, Butte 44

Box Elder 66, Chinook 48

Bridger 67, Absarokee 51

Broadus 61, Ekalaka 21

Broadview-Lavina 68, Harlowton-Ryegate 67

Browning 89, Belgrade 68

Butte Central 51, Stevensville 47, OT

Charlo 54, St. Regis 45

Chester-Joplin-Inverness 48, Si

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