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Martin City man pleads out in house shooting case

A Martin City man was sentenced to 10 years in prison earlier this month in a case where he shot up a Hungry Horse home.

Columbia Falls Academic Endowment fundraiser coming up

The Columbia Falls Academic Endowment fundraiser is Thursday, April 19 at the Cedar Creek Lodge.

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Betty Friske Brown

Rapids U12 soccer boys 2nd at Butte tournament

The Kootenai Rapids U12 boys team took runner-up honors in the recent Montana Showcase Jamboree in Butte.

Gary Doubek

Gary Doubek, 48, a life long resident of Libby died Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007 at St. John's Lutheran Hospital from natural causes.

Buoys are planned to fight wakes

SANDPOINT — Bonner County commissioners are deploying another measure to combat damaging boat wakes on the Pend Oreille River.

Fans hope for return of racing

Horse racing fans are rooting for a long shot — the return of the ponies to the Northwest Montana Fair.

Concert canceled due to singer's illness

Wednesday night’s Chris Young concert at the Northwest Montana Fair and Rodeo was canceled just a few hours before the scheduled show.

Redhead Express on tap in Kalispell

Man sentenced for sexual battery

A registered sex offender will serve 89 days in jail after pleading guilty to two charges.

Flathead County Sheriff's Office reported random acts of unkindness and senseless acts of hostility.

On Holt Drive, someone keeps calling and asking to speak to a girl's father and then laughing and hanging up. On U.S. 2, teenage girls keep calling to say they can't wait to read the obituary of a woman who lives there.

Woman hurt saving puppies from fire

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Mason Shea Walsh, 9

Mason Shea Walsh, 9, "was received into the arms of Jesus" on Feb. 16, 2006, in St. Peter's Hospital in Helena due to respiratory failure.

The Flathead County Sheriff's Office was called to the Bigfork area Monday afternoon

when a woman fell or was pushed from a moving vehicle. She was taken to the hospital, and officers chased the driver.

John Alfred Roog, 84

John Alfred Roog, a resident of Stuart, Fla., was born June 17, 1921 in Shelton, Conn., the son of Peter and Aniela (Garbien) Roog. He graduated from Shelton High School in 1939 and attended Montana State University.

The Flathead County Sheriff's Office

is looking for a man who allegedly bit off the ear lobe of a woman during a dispute Wednesday evening at the Spinnaker bar in Lakeside. Officers reportedly know who the man is and where he lives.

EDITORIAL: Local education gets big boost

Flathead Valley residents historically have supported education in a big way. That has been evident most recently with two major school projects. Bigfork School District taxpayers approved a $14 million bond request to add 24,000 square feet of new space for the high school and renovate existing facilities.

Whitefish refinancing saves money on interest rates

 Whitefish School District will pass on savings to taxpayers after the district recently refinanced bonds in the elementary district and completed financing a $14 million bond issue for high school reconstruction.

Stoltze: Tradition and future

Congratulations to F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber Co. for a remarkable 100 years of survival in the volatile wood products industry, and for a huge helping of perseverance in pursuing development of a new co-generation plant at the sawmill west of Columbia Falls.