Lewistown News

MILES CITY - The city judge in Miles City has been sentenced after pleading guilty to a drunken driving charge.

Jack Copps announced Monday this will be his final year as superintendent of Billings School District 2. His last day will be June 30, 2010.

Attorneys for Montana have filed a lawsuit against BNSF Railway Company for failing to live up to a 1984 agreement that the state says requires the company to pay some grain shipping costs in central Montana.

BOZEMAN -- Three volleyball teams from northcentral Montana brought home trophies Saturday from the state tournament.

BILLINGS - Nearly 500 kids in Billings are going home with meals tucked alongside the homework in their backpacks.

LEWISTOWN - Beverly Ann Butler, 79, died of cancer Sunday at a Lewistown medical facility.

The land around Roy, Montana is prairie covered with sage, grass and cactus. In years when there is rain there is yellow clover and prairie primrose too.

The National Weather Service in Great Falls has issued a High Wind warning, which is in effect until 5 p.m. this afternoon.

Voters ousted two Craig Water and Sewer District Board incumbents who did not support a special resort tax to pay for the town's overburdened sewer system.

In Ward 1, Jack H. Phillips got 360 votes to serve the remaining two years of his appointed term; Frank Gremaux earned 370 votes to win a four-year term for Ward 1 and Elizabeth Anne Putnam had 236 votes to win the Ward 3 seat.

Things are hopping in Lewiston thanks to jump-roping enthusiast Loraine Day. What started as a way to get local youth involved in a fun community activity has blossomed into an official USA Jump-Rope Team, the Lewistown Hoppers.

AUGARE - Daughter born Friday to Stephanie Augare. BEADLES - Son born Thursday to Kristine and Jeremy Beadles of Great Falls.

HELENA - Mons Teigen, 87, a leader in state agriculture and a former executive of the Montana Stockgrowers Association, died of natural causes Saturday in Helena.

The Wild West and the Far East merge this weekend at the historic Grand Union Hotel in Fort Benton, and the results promise to be quite tasty.

Far East meets the Wild West at Fort Benton's Grand Union Hotel on Oct. 31 through Nov.

Main Street, Lewistown, Montana, population 6,000, lined by an old fashioned soda shop, a pharmacy, a barber shop, a movie house, and lots of jewelry stores - it's an American small town.

Audio for this story from Weekend Edition Saturday will be available at approx. 12:00 p.m. ET Transcript Enlarge Jesse Shapins / Mapping Main Street Main Street in Lewistown looks like a postcard with a movie theater, a barber shop and a diner where old men meet for coffee every morning.

It was a cold day on Oct. 11 in 1969 and 1972 in several communities across northcentral Montana.

MapSpace! Arctic Air Ready to Spill into Large Section of Nation The coldest air of the season will begin seeping southward into the northern Rockies Wednesday before invading the Midwest and parts of the Great Lakes through the end of the The coldest air of the season will begin seeping southward into the northern Rockies Wednesday before invading ...

LEWISTOWN - Marie Alice Grensten, 89, of Lewistown, died of natural causes Monday at New Horizons Assisted Living in Lewistown.