Libby News

Good morning; on the Beacon today, skateboarders at Woodland Park say the Kalispell Police have been cracking down hard since a vote to relax the helmet law died in city council.

Chemist Raymond Wu and engineer Rob Pedersen, both of the Environmental Protection Agency, take soil samples from front yard along West Sharp in Spokane today.

Last week, federal prosecutors moved to drop charges against the final defendant in the W.R. Grace trial.

At the grade school I went to as a child we had these weird looking brown floors.

Good morning; on the Beacon today, more traffic fatalities. Marlene Kay Siblerud of Somers was killed in a three-vehicle crash just south of Somers Monday.

Jury selection is underway in the trial of an 18-year old man accused of shooting a former solider at a remote Lincoln County campground.

EPA Announces Public Health Emergency in Libby, Montana; EPA to Move Aggressively on Cleanup and HHS to Assist Area Residents with Medical Care U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson today announced the agency has determined that a public health emergency exists at the Libby asbestos site in northwest Montana.

President Obama keeps serving up the most remarkable repairs and changes to American life.

Libby, Montana population 2,626 and dropping. Libby is largely supported by the use of natural resources of logging and mining.

I suspect a lot of readers have followed the story of Libby, MT, since the Seattle Post-Intelligencer first reported, nearly 10 years ago now, on the epic asbestos pollution there by the notorious corporate polluter W.R. Grace and its predecessor.

Federal prosecutors moved early this week to dismiss charges against O. Mario Favorito, the legal counsel for W.R. Grace.

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration said Wednesday it will pump more than $130 million into a Montana town where asbestos contamination has been blamed for more than 200 deaths.

Good morning; on the Beacon today, charges were dismissed against the final Grace defendant in the Libby asbestos trial.

Federal prosecutors are dropping charges against the final defendant in the Libby asbestos trial, a month after a Montana jury dismissed the case against his former co-workers. O. Mario Favorito was one of seven defendants originally indicted by a federal grand jury 5-years-ago along with W.R. Grace, accused of criminal conspiracy in efforts to ...

A Troy woman dies in a head on crash near Libby after the pickup truck she was in ran a stop sign.

Local attorney Tammi Fisher announced Tuesday she is throwing her hat into the ring to run for mayor of Kalispell.

MISSOULA - Sentencing is scheduled Oct. 2 for a Kalispell man who pleaded guilty in a drug conspiracy case.

Verdict leaves residents of Montana town without justice Andrea Peabody, author of "Libby, Montana: Asbestos and the Deadly Silence of an American Corporation," provides a postmortem on the trial of W.R. Grace Co.

Heading into the final weekend of softball before the playoffs, Polson holds a slim advantage over Columbia Falls for first place in Western A after defeating the Wildkats 12-3 on Thursday.

Jury verdicts in civil cases can range from small, barely noticed awards to enormous amounts of money that make headlines.