Crime

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a former University of Montana football player to 30 years in prison with 20 years suspended for raping a female friend in his apartment. Beau Donaldson pleaded guilty in September to sexual intercourse without consent after admitting to the 2010 rape in a phone call monitored by police...

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Police in Missoula have arrested five suspects in a convenience store robbery that left the clerk with a skull fracture. Two of the suspects are former University of Montana football players. Former Griz strong safety Andrew Badger is charged with robbery, aggravated assault and tampering with evidence...

Kids witness bullying every day. They want to help, but don't know how. Research shows that when parents talk to their kids about bullying, their children are more likely to take action to stop bullying. What do you say to your kids about bullying...

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — Law enforcement officers in southwestern Montana say a suicide note left by an Anaconda man gives no indication of the fate of his girlfriend, who has been missing for more than a week. Authorities found the body of John Goldberg, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound...

Those are the words of 17 year old LeAlan Jones from Chicago quoted in a powerful book entitled "A People's History Of Poverty In America". Jones is quoted as saying, "I live in the ghetto. I'm supposed to be a loser. I'm supposed to be on the 6 o'clock news shooting people's heads off...

State game wardens are asking for help in finding who poached three white-tailed deer alongside a road south of Conrad. On Nov. 15 an area landowner discovered two whitetail does and a fawn shot and left about 5 miles south of Conrad along a road known locally as Gravel Pit Road...

That's what I used to call them. I was a big time wrestling fan back in the 70's & early 80's & besides seeing some great matches back in the Pittsburgh area, I got to meet some of these "living legends". I had the good fortune to spend an entire day with the late Captain Lou Albano, who I found out wasn't really a "Captain" at all...

Puffman here inviting you to join me this afternoon (Monday) at 4:30 on Puffman Musical Trivia. I'm giving away a copy of "The Dead Celebrity Cookbook" & as the title implies, these people are all dead but the book is a "Resurrection of Recipes from More Than 145 Stars of Stage & Screen. Frank ...

All this week on Puffman Musical Trivia, I've been giving away the sparkling debut novel penned by Karen Engelman, "The Stockholm Octavo". I still don't know how to pronounce "Octavo" but that hasn't slowed down me down as we dive into a world of political intrigue, romance, the Octavo spread of cards & some great musical trivia questions & winners. This a...

This book should be if it's not already. I'm blogging this afternoon about the NEXT book I'll be reading at Montana History up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby. This tome (or should I say "tomb") is titled "Dark Spaces-Montana's Historic Penitentiary At Deer Lodge"...

It's likely that most of us use one of the major internet browsers-Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer. These browsers have all adopted a "Do Not Track" header to help protect users' privacy. According to my special guest, Sarah Downey, from the online privacy company, Abine, the Do Not Track header only requests that sites not track the user rather than actually BLOCKING the t

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man faces charges of kidnapping and assaulting an 11-year-old girl in Wyoming after police said he lured her to his car by saying he needed help finding a missing puppy. Thirty-nine-year-old Jesse Paul Speer is being held without bond and waived his right to an extradition hearing during a brief court appearance Monday in Bozeman...