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Media Shield Law

The Breakfast Flakes — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:35:15 +0000

U.S. Senator Max Baucus is joining the call for a federal media shield law in the wake of the Justice Department’s seizure of journalists’ records. The Obama administration has in recent weeks acknowledged seizing portions of two months of phone records from The Associated Press. The Justice Department also read the emails of a Fox [...]

The Path To Hell

The Breakfast Flakes — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:02:27 +0000

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible for vandalizing two Bozeman churches. The federal agency said Wednesday it became involved because of the possibility that one or both incidents may be a violation of civil rights….and P. S. a really [...]

Saving the Children!

The Breakfast Flakes — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:01:39 +0000

Governor Steve Bullock signed two child abuse protection bills inside the Cascade County Courthouse on Tuesday, adjacent to an ongoing jury trial of an alleged sexual assault of a 4-year-old girl. The two bills were Senate Bill 160 and House Bill 76. SB 160 was sponsored by Senator Mitch Tropila, which created the offense of [...]

Mom and Dad, It's Time For An Intervention

The Breakfast Flakes — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:04:43 +0000

University of Montana basketball player was charged with misdemeanor drunken driving early Monday after police saw his car stopped in the middle of Ryman Street. Spencer C. Coleman, 21, was arrested at about 2:45 a.m. after an officer spotted a broken tail lamp on his 1997 black Nissan Maxima, according to the affidavit in the [...]

Friends In Low Places

The Breakfast Flakes — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:46:35 +0000

The three-decade fight for freedom by a Montana man convicted of the 1979 slaying of a teenage classmate appeared to slam shut this week, when the Montana Supreme Court ordered him back to prison and took away his brief taste of normal life. But from the time he confessed to out-of-state police four years after [...]

Nurse Ratchet is on the prowl!

The Breakfast Flakes — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:26:31 +0000

Health care facilities throughout Billings remain on alert today after it was confirmed that a woman had posed as a nurse at Billings Clinic. “We’re watching,” said Barbara Schneeman, director of communication and advocacy at RiverStone Health. Schneeman said Billings Clinic notified Riverstone CEO John Felton at 9 a.m. last Thursday of the nurse impostor. A photo of [...]

Jail Dangerously Overcrowded

The Breakfast Flakes — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:05:51 +0000

Yellowstone County officials are considering creating a work program to ease overcrowding at the jail as it is dangerously over crowded. The Billings Gazette reports that Yellowstone County Sheriff Mike Linder recently presented the idea to Yellowstone County commissioners, the county attorney, public defender and judges. Linder says representatives from the sheriff’s department and jail [...]

The Dude Abides

The Breakfast Flakes — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:05:52 +0000

A 48-year-old Missoula man has been ordered to pay just over $25,000 in restitution for fraudulently collecting Social Security disability payments while failing to report money he made running a medical marijuana growing operation, just an oversight I’m sure. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 48-year-old Scott Lee Hubeny also was placed on five years’ probation [...]

University More Concerned With Image Than Students

The Breakfast Flakes — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:43:48 +0000

A deal has been reached in the University of Montana sexual-assault probe, University of Montana president Royce Engstrom says independent monitors will ensure the school follows through on promised reforms after a federal investigation into mishandled sexual assault reports on campus. Justice Department Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roy Austin Jr. says investigators heard from women [...]

Fraud On the Rez

The Breakfast Flakes — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:23:37 +0000

The Chippewa Cree tribe in northern Montana has suspended two leaders charged with stealing federal stimulus money. Tribal council member John Chance Houle and Chippewa Cree Construction Corp. CEO Tony Belcourt were arraigned Tuesday on 17 fraud, theft and money laundering counts! Four others, including Belcourt’s wife Hailey, have also been charged; they are accused [...]

Montana Youth Allowed to Hunt

The Breakfast Flakes — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:56:53 +0000

A 15-year-old southwest Montana boy charged with bringing two guns to school in January because he wanted to show people “you don’t need an assault rifle to shoot up a school,” has reached a plea agreement that calls for treatment and probation. However, he will still be able to go on family hunting trips. The [...]

Bad Business!

The Breakfast Flakes — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:20:09 +0000

Former University of Montana quarterback Jason Washington has been sentenced to two years in prison on drug convictions stemming from his medical marijuana business. Federal agents raided three of Washington’s businesses in November 2011, including a large marijuana growing operation. Six others were indicted with him, five of whom pleaded guilty. He argued he complied [...]

Crow Corruption

The Breakfast Flakes — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:36:51 +0000

Three defendants in a corruption case on Montana’s Crow Indian Reservation have been sentenced to probation after taking money meant to pay for monitoring historic sites. U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull sentenced Larkin Troy Chandler, Mark James Denny and Frederick Deputee, Jr. Wednesday to five years’ probation each. They also must pay restitution — $73,045 [...]

Be On The Look Out For Nurse Ratchet

The Breakfast Flakes — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:17:30 +0000

St. Vincent Healthcare officials are warning workers tobe on the look out for a woman posing as a health-care worker. The Billings Gazette reports that an internal hospital memo says the woman wears scrubs or a lab coat and has posed as a nurse, a nursing director and a student. Wow, that’s kind of scary! [...]

Safe and Sound

The Breakfast Flakes — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:16:42 +0000

The mother of a 6-year-old Roswell boy reportedly abducted at gunpoint and later found safe in Texas is facing charges in the case along with two other people. Roswell police say 30-year-old Miranda Ann Aguilar is being held by Lubbock police on suspicion on custodial interference, aggravated burglary, conspiracy and assault against a household member [...]

Fake Bomb Threat..Really?

The Breakfast Flakes — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:21:48 +0000

A 51-year-old man faces felony intimidation charges after someone called 911 in Billings and said “school shooting tomorrow” before hanging up. Billings Police Chief Rich St. John said Wednesday there was no indication suspect Rodney Wilm of Lockwood intended to carry out the threat, but that really isn’t any comfort. St. John said the call [...]

Missing Money…Lots Of It!

The Breakfast Flakes — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:02:05 +0000

Federal officials have temporarily stopped funding a $361 million water pipeline for a Native American reservation here in Montana after learning that millions of project dollars had just disappeared! Michael Ryan of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says Chippewa Cree tribal leaders have replaced the missing money. But he says federal funding for the pipeline [...]

Bombing Update

The Breakfast Flakes — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:56:22 +0000

Authorities in the Boston area are looking for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ehv, one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. AP sources say Tsarnaev originally is from the Russian region near Chechnya, but he’s been living in the Boston suburb of Cambridge. His brother, who was the second suspect in Monday’s bombing, was killed [...]

Boston Marathon Bombing Update

Andy West — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:57:23 +0000

Breaking Boston Marathon News: 1 suspect dead, MIT under siege. SWAT and FBI on scene. Fox News is reporting that the two suspects are brothers and of Chechen origin and that they’ve been living legally in the United States for about a year in Cambridge, Massachussetts. Police agencies in the Watertown area of Boston are going [...]

Support Sinking For Gun Control

The Breakfast Flakes — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:40:16 +0000

Today could be a big day in the debate over legislation intended to prevent gun violence. A bipartisan bill expanding background checks is losing steam ahead of a vote.

The Senate plans to vote today on the proposal and several amendments, including one to expand background checks for gun purchases at gun shows and online