A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge on Monday denied KGEZ radio station owner John Stokes' bid to withdraw his Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and instead granted the trustee's motion to convert the bankruptcy to Chapter 7.
Former Columbia Falls day-care worker Pete Ampudia is free after being found innocent Monday of three counts of child molestation involving two young girls.
Dustin Frost, U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg's state director who suffered a severe closed head injury in a boating accident on Flathead Lake Aug. 27, was moved to a less-critical level of hospital care Monday morning.
Gary A. Nelson, 62, an avid outdoorsman from Whitefish, died Saturday while on a solo fishing trip to Four Horns Reservoir on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation near Heart Butte, south of Browning.
