Daily News Roundup
June 14, 2024
Murder/ Suicide in Carbon County
Press Release from the Carbon County Sheriff’s Office On June 12, 2024 at approximately 9:30 p.m., deputies responded to a residence north of Silesia to do a welfare check on the residents. The welfare check was requested by friends who had been unable to contact the residents after receiving a concerning email from the male living at the residence.
Burned Over! Book Release Saturday Evening
By Denise Rivette Books will be available for sale at the event. Books are also available at Beartooth Books located at 24 South Broadway in Red Lodge or can be ordered from them by calling 406-445-3038 or writing to them at info@beartoothbookstore.com.
Montana Creates Emergency ‘Drive-Thru’ Blood Pickup Service for Rural Ambulances
By Arielle Zionts for KFF Health News Crystal Hiwalker wonders if her heart and lungs would have kept working if the ambulance crew had been able to give her a transfusion as the blood drained from her body during a stormy, 100-mile ride. Because of the 2019 snowstorm, it took 2.5 hours to drive from her small town of Lame Deer, Montana, to the advanced trauma center in Billings.
U.S. Senate Republicans Reject Democrats’ Bill on IVF Protections
By Jennifer Shutt for States Newsroom WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats’ attempts to bolster reproductive rights failed again Thursday when Republicans blocked a bill guaranteeing access to in vitro fertilization from moving forward. The 48-47 procedural vote came just one day after Republicans tried unsuccessfully to pass their own IVF access bill and one week after GOP senators
Biden Title IX Regulation Targeted by Republicans in Congress
By Shauneen Miranda for States Newsroom WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress got one step further in their efforts to reverse the Biden administration’s final rule for Title IX after the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce approved a measure on Thursday that would overturn the updated regulations.
Trump Claims ‘Great Unity’ After Talks With Congressional GOP
By Ariana Figueroa and Ashley Murray for States Newsroom WASHINGTON — In his first visit to Capitol Hill since leaving office in January 2021, former President Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, mapped campaign strategy with GOP lawmakers and projected party unity ahead of the November elections.
Sheehy didn’t disclose former board membership at Bozeman think tank
By Blair Miller for the Daily Montanan Montana’s Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy failed to disclose to the U.S. Senate that he was a board member of the Property and Environment Research Center, a “free market environmentalism” nonprofit think-tank based in Bozeman, prior to his run for office.
Political Practices Commissioner Rules That Attorney General Candidate Was Ineligible
By Darrell Ehrlick for the Daily Montanan The Montana Commissioner of Political Practices has ruled that Republican Attorney General candidate and Daniels County Attorney Logan Olson was not qualified to run for Montana Attorney General in the 2024 primary election, but stopped short of saying he knowingly violated the law.