Lame Deer News

Lame Deer's Iron to join UM-Western basketball Eds: APNewsNow. DILLON, Mont. The University of Montana-Western has a basketball letter of intent from Sissy Leah Iron of Lame Deer.

For many decades, neighbouring rival American Indian Crow and Northern Cheyenne tribes have suffered high unemployment and poverty in a remote area of one of the most remote states.

For many decades the rival neighboring American Indian Crow and Northern Cheyenne tribes have suffered high unemployment and poverty in a remote area of one of most remote U.S. states.

A federal jury acquitted a former law enforcement officer on Thursday of sexually abusing a young girl in Lame Deer nearly five years ago.

“She is the candidate who best understands the issues facing Montana families.”

Twelve Montana prosecutors have endorsed Barack Obama: These leaders from across Montana cited Senator Obama's strong record of supporting law enforcement as well as his commitment to protecting individual ... via TalkLeft

Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, announced today that Billings, on May 7, 2008, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, KEVIN WHITEMAN, a 37-year-old resident of Lame ... via Federal Bureau of Investigation

“I've never seen an attack on a woman quite like this”

BILLINGS - A Lame Deer man who pleaded guilty to burning and kicking a woman during an argument has been sentenced to five years in prison. via Great Falls Tribune

The Montana Department of Transportation closed one highway and restricted travel on another Thursday night because of poor weather. via Montana's News Station

From The K-B-L-G News Center... A SIX-MONTH-OLD BABY BOY FROM LAME DEER WAS KILLED LAST NIGHT NEAR COLSTRIP IN A ONE-VEHICLE ROLLOVER. via KBLG-AM Billings

The Montana Highway Patrol says two women were killed and another was injured in a head-on collision west of Lame Deer. via KFBB

“I'm kind of taking care of it for them, and hopefully I'm going to get enough gold out of it to make a little money.”

DILLON - A mining engineer and his business partner have a plan to process tailings from a century-old gold mine near Melrose, hopefully extracting more gold from the tailings while also cleaning up the mine ... via Great Falls Tribune

“It's a real boost of confidence”

There's an old saying that dynamite comes in small packages and February's graduation at Kicking Horse Job Corps may have been small but there was a dynamic duo and an explosive number of GED recipients. via Char-Koosta News

Bill Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, announced today that during a federal court session in Billings, on March 13, 2008, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, REYNARD ... via Federal Bureau of Investigation

“We've worked very hard in this agency, with the Legislature and the governor's office, to put us in a position where we are managing more and more offenders in treatment programs in the community”

LAME DEER - The president-elect of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe says she will remain the chief professional officer for the Northern Cheyenne Boys & Girls Club until she is sworn in. via Great Falls Tribune

“Folks have stepped up to the plate and pledged their support, but the money for processing costs is trickling in very slowly. I would like to thank the Butcher Block in Miles City (Mont.) who donated their time in processing this beef.”

Members of the Montana Cattlemen's Association Foundation delivered beef to the Boys and Girls Club of Lame Deer, Mont., last week as part of the foundation's Beef-on-Every-Plate drive. via The Prairie Star

“She has just done fantastic, which we knew she would”

A Northern Cheyenne criminal investigator died Thursday while awaiting a double lung transplant. via Billings Gazette

“The farther east you got, the colder it was”

The cold air that blanketed the eastern half of Montana this weekend should start to move out today. via Billings Gazette

A Lame Deer man accused of burning and kicking a woman admitted federal charges Wednesday. via Billings Gazette

Icicles form where springs flow into the Yellowstone River from cliffs in this aerial view near Laurel. via Billings Gazette

Phillip Whiteman Jr Releases his Introductory DVD "the Medicine Wheel Model to Natural Horsemanship". The first in a series of DVD's using the Native American Medicine Wheel as a guide to working with and ... via Native American Times