Crime

It's all here in this fictional story with FACTUAL events about a cop & his relationships with "famous inhabitants". It's D.C. Murphy's new potboiler, "Rooster-A Badge, Gun & Heartache". The "Rooster" is Sean Patrick Murphy, a cop torn between loyalty & justice, & his passion to become a country singer. Now, I'm not s...

I'm not talking about one of Gary Gollehon's crops, but rather the book that I'll be giving away this afternoon (Monday) at 4:30 on "Puffman Musical Trivia" at 4:30. "Deadly Harvest" is the new tome from author Michael Stanley as he revisits Detective Kubu with this 4th installment in the Detective Kubu series...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Lockwood man has pleaded guilty to calling 911 just days after a Connecticut school shooting and threatening a similar shooting in the Billings area. The Billings Gazette reports 52-year-old Rodney Dale Wilm pleaded guilty to felony intimidation yesterday before District Judge Susan Watters...

TORONTO (AP) — Police in Canada say two men have been arrested and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train. They say the two were conspiring to carry out an attack against Via Rail with al-Qaida support, but that they posed no imminent threat...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against a defendant charged in the killing of an Illinois man kidnapped from his Billings hotel room. Yellowstone County Attorney Scott Twito announced the decision Monday in the case of Simon Jacobson, who's charged with deliberate homicide and other crimes in the January death of 29-year-old Dejuan Laster...

That's the name of north central Montanan Paul. J. Caden's book & it packs a powerful punvh along with a truly uplifting message.. It IS an action packed & relatively fast read at 179 pages...I read the entire book while on a Great Falls to Minneapolis flight last summer. I met ...

What a combination! It's going to be a downright blast tomorrow (Tuesday) night as the 4th Annual Cops Vs Kids Charity Basketball Game takes place at the Heart Butte High School. The "long arm of the law" law enforcement from our area will be taking on the Heart Butte High School boys team beginning at 6 o'clock...

I don't often read "westerns", but I've come across a really engrossing neat page turner, or in this case, a page "BURNER" penned by my friend Bill Yenne. Yenne's new book is the 1st in a new series titled "Bladen Cole: Bounty Hunter" & it takes place & is happening & hopping right out here in Montana, including this area of north central Montana. Bladen C

Benjamin Busch's hard hitting tome "Dust To Dust is NOW out in paperback! "Dust To Dust" is a profound meditation on our passage through life, from a decorated Marine Corps combat veteran & actor on "The Wire". I've never had the opportunity to watch "The Wire" on television but friends tell me that it is a good ,or even better than the Sopranos. Ha... Read M

(HELENA) – THREE FORMER BLACKFEET TRIBAL BUSINESS COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE AGREED TO CHANGE THEIR PLEA TO GUILTY ON CHARGES OF HOLDING ILLEGAL BIG GAME HUNTS FOR UP AND COMING COUNTRY MUSICIANS AND AN OUTDOORS TELEVISION SHOW IN 2010 AND 2011...

Some of our good neighbors will be "SHOUTING out" "Bingo" tonight (Thursday) up north as American Legion Post 73 in Sweetgrass will be calling out "Bingo" at the American Legion Hall. Thursday nights at Bingo in Sweetgrass are a sweet time & frolicking fun for all. Th...

HELENA – A Helena jury convicted a Ronan man Wednesday of two felony counts of theft of worker’s compensation benefits provided by the Montana State Fund. Perry Joseph Penfield was employed at his parents’ business, Polson Paint and Glass, in April 2008 when he fell into a window well and injured his right knee, according to an affidavit filed by the Attorney General’s Office...