Daily News Roundup
March 25 and 26, 2024
When Dogs Fly
by Johnathan Hettinger for Montana Free Press Earlier this month, SPCA International evacuated 70 shelter dogs from the Israeli-occupied West Bank to destinations in Wyoming, California and Washington. The unprecedented airlift was accomplished with the help of Livingston-based Maggie McGuane.
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) Detection in Kansas, Texas Dairy Herds
Press Release from U.S. Department of Agriculture edited by Denise Rivette Yesterday, The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that they and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as state veterinary and public health officials, are investigating an illness among primarily older dairy cows in Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico that is causing decreased lactation, low appetite, and other symptoms.
Knudsen Rewrites Abortion Initiative Ballot Statement; Proponents Ask Supreme Court to Reject It
By Blair Miller for the Daily Montanan The group behind a proposed constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion access in the Montana Constitution filed an emergency petition with the state Supreme Court on Tuesday morning asking it to overturn the attorney general’s newly rewritten ballot statement for the proposal.
Carbon County First Responder Blotter
TOTAL CALLS FOR SERVICE = 268 CIVIL PROCESS = 5 WELFARE CHECK = 5 911 HANGUPS/MISDIALS/TELEMARKETERS = 22 MEDICALS = 14 PRISONER TRANSPORT TOTAL TIME = 1 HOURS ACTIVE ALARMS = 5 TRAFFIC COMPLAINT = 4 CRASH = 9 ARRESTS = 1 INCARCERATIONS = 2 WARNINGS = 72
DOJ Imposes $9.9M Penalty for Montana Man Who Targeted Communities with Robocalls
By Blair Miller for the Daily Montanan A federal court in Montana last week imposed a nearly $10 million penalty against a Libby man who sent thousands of harassing and malicious spoofed robocalls that targeted people and communities in several states, specifically following tragedies that included people’s murders.
Tester’s Bozeman Office Vandalized in Pro-Palestine Protest
By Nicole Girten for the Daily Montanan U.S. Senator Jon Tester’s downtown Bozeman office was vandalized during the weekend with expletives and red and black spray paint reading, “Tester funds genocide.” Police were notified of the spray painted messages, and paint crossing out the U.S. Senate seal, on Saturday night, which were sprayed on the exterior of the office along West Main Street.
Missoula-area wood industry closures mean ripple effects for workers, tax base, forest management
by Katie Fairbanks for Montana Free Press The pending closures of Missoula County’s two largest wood products employers, announced separately this month, will have effects beyond the local economy, limiting options for landowners and other mills throughout the region and making forest management projects more expensive, according to local and industry officials.
Project Safe Neighborhoods: Resolution in Case of Billings Man Conducting Armed Patrols in School Zone
Press Release from U.S. Attorney’s Office edited by Denise Rivette U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana, Jesse Laslovich, announced today that a Billings man who alarmed neighbors and parents last year by patrolling his residential property across from an elementary school with a firearm admitted to a firearms crime today. The defendant, Gabriel Cowan Metcalf, 49, pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm in a school zone, as charged in an indictment. Metcalf faces a maximum of five years in prison, a $100,000 fine and three years of supervised release.
The Many-Shaped Charms of Semolina Pasta
by Jon Bennion for Montana Free Press I have met very few people who don’t like pasta. As you read this column, you probably have boxes of at least three or four different pastas in your pantry to throw together a dinner in a pinch. And there are plenty of tasty boxed pasta recipes on notecards in your little recipe box, in the cookbooks on your shelf, and certainly online.