Crime

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A group of University of Montana football fans has started a petition asking the governor and higher education officials to censure former Congressman Pat Williams for his statements last week that the UM football program recruits thugs and to end his appointment on the Board of Regents...

I came across a powerful read last month & this no holds barred book is still resonating with me. I came across a news story in the Great Falls Tribune several months back & immediately wanted to get the book. The book is "Bobby Convict-School of Hard Knocks" & the affable author is the infamous Bobby Wilhelm. Wilhelm gr...

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — Butte Sheriff Ed Lester says the man investigators believe shot a 23-year-old woman while robbing a taxi business is dead. Lester declined Tuesday to release the identity of the man or say how he died. Lester tells The Montana Standard the death does not appear to be suspicious...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A suspect arrested in the killing of an Illinois man who was kidnapped from a Montana hotel room faces charges including deliberate homicide after investigators say he acknowledged committing the crime. Simon Elliot Jacobson made an initial appearance Monday in Justice Court in Billings, where bail was set at $1 million...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up the petition of an FBI agent seeking immunity against allegations that he failed to properly investigate the deaths of two men because they were Native Americans. That means the lawsuit filed by the families of the deceased men against Matthew Oravec can go on...

(Information in the following story is from: Great Falls Tribune, http://www.greatfallstribune.com) GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A vehicle struck a 50-year-old Havre man as he walked along a road near Browning, killing him. The Montana Highway Patrol says the man was struck at 1:39 a...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana lawmaker says that convicts should be allowed to escape prison time if they instead agree to the "infliction of physical pain." Republican Rep. Jerry O'Neil is drafting a bill that would allow those convicted of misdemeanors or felonies to negotiate corporal punishment instead of another sentence...

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...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana legislators are considering a new package of pro-gun proposals. One of the first bills heard by the Legislature would privatize the address information of concealed weapon permit holders out of fear that they'd become targets of crime...

That's the title of the new Bob Lee Swagger novel just released(!) & tomorrow morning (Saturday) on Puffman Sports Trivia, "The Third Bullet" is going to be the prize! For nearly 50 years, the world has been obsessing over the assassination of JFK, from grassy knolls to magic bullets. Fi...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A prosecutor is recommending 10 years in prison for a former medical marijuana provider who struck a plea deal after he was convicted on eight drug and weapons charges. A sentencing memo that Chris Williams should serve consecutive five-year sentences for the two charges to which he pleaded guilty...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The past is catching up to a former medical marijuana dispensary security guard who is better known for kidnapping a world-class athlete in the 1980s to make her his mountain bride. Dan Nichols is facing sentencing Thursday for his role in providing security for Montana Cannabis, a large medical marijuana operation that was raided in a 2011 federal crackdown...