Posted 4:35 PM 5/17/2012 by Jamie Leary
(U.S. SENATE) - Senator Jon Tester today announced that the U.S. Postal Service's mail processing facilities in Butte, Helena and Wolf Point will stay open.
Tester worked to keep the facilities open to preserve timely mail service in rural Montana and to protect over 170 Montana postal (More)
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Posted 3:48 PM 5/17/2012 by Judy Slate
Amos House, originally a soup kitchen and homeless shelter, reopened this week as a transitional housing facility. It is operated by HRDC.
Its estimated that Amos House will cost about $50,000 to $60,000 a year to operate. HRDC received a $20,000 grant from HUD and now they're (More)
Posted 10:42 AM 5/17/2012 by CBS News
(CBS News) Disco queen Donna Summer has died, a family spokesperson told the Associated Press. She was 63.
Her family released a statement Thursday saying Summer had died and that they "are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy."'
TMZ first reported (More)
Posted 10:37 AM 5/17/2012 by CBS News Staff
How good is coffee for your health? For years, research has gone both ways, with some studies finding it boosts risk for heart disease, while other studies find it could be protective against breast and skin cancers.
A large-scale study of 400,000 people offers good news for (More)
Posted 10:21 AM 5/17/2012 by David Sherman (david@krtv.com)
A new documentary series following a Hutterite colony in Montana will soon air on the National Geographic Channel.
Aaron Flint, a radio talk show host on the Northern News Network, says that last month he was staying at The Yogo Inn in Lewistown and learned that there was a documentary (More)
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Posted 9:34 AM 5/17/2012 by Meteorologist Mike Heard
A moist SW flow aloft will increase this afternoon as an upper level trough moves in from the pacific NW. Weak shortwave energy moving out ahead of the trough will produce more showers and thunderstorms this afternoon mostly south of Helena to Lewistown.
A cold front is currently diving (More)
Posted 8:48 AM 5/17/2012 by Dax VanFossen- KAJ News
A young male grizzly bear has been released back into the wild just a day after being found in the backyard of a home in Ferndale near Bigfork.
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks officials say the the grizzly is estimated to be 2½ years old and weighs about 120 pounds.
FWP (More)
Posted 8:39 AM 5/17/2012 by Melissa Rafferty - KPAX
HELENA - The number of whooping cough cases continues to grow in Ravalli and Flathead counties with no signs of easing up. More cases were reported in both counties on Wednesday, with the total number of confirmed cases in Ravalli County rising to 50.
State officials report that so far (More)
Posted 8:20 AM 5/17/2012 by Katy Harris (KAJ News)
KALISPELL- The U.S. Marshals are looking for a Kalispell man who sexually assaulted a 4-year-old boy in 1998.
Dale Hanson, 60, has not registered as sex offender in several years and law enforcement lost track of his whereabouts.
The U.S. Marshals Service is now asking for the (More)
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Posted 6:15 AM 5/17/2012 by Callie Eike - KTVQ
BILLINGS- To the parents of a premature infant, they often carry the weight of the world on their shoulders.
But these parents, Dax and Chantel Scheiffer of Big Sky, are carrying the weight of 2 pound 12 ounce Dax Junior entirely on their chests.
Dax Junior, who was named after his (More)
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