Fergus County News

A Lewistown man accused of taking a 14-year-old runaway girl across state lines, says he is not-guilty, and has waived his right for a detention hearing.

LEWISTOWN - A Maiden Canyon -area resident faces a felony charge for allowing his 18 "aggressive and vicious" dogs to run loose in the Judith Mountains.

Two Marion County fugitives were taken into custody in Fergus County, Mont., Friday following a tip from the Mountain State Fugitive Task Force.

COLUMBIA FALLS - Dennis H. Schoepp, 61, of Columbia Falls, a longtime Flathead Valley funeral director and Army veteran, died of natural causes Thursday at Kalispell Regional Medical Center.

A six person jury ruled that a suspect in Pondera County custody committed suicide back in February.

A coroner's inquest conducted today in Conrad found that the Pondera County Sheriff's Department was not culpable for the death of a man who shot himself after authorities allowed him to retrieve medication and tend to his livestock at his home.

A coroner's inquest is under way in the case of a Glasgow man who died after he allegedly killed a woman and injured two others in a shooting near the town's hospital.

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It took only ten minutes for a Hill County jury to decide that a murder suspect committed suicide while in custody back in February.

The circumstances surrounding the death of a mysterious gunman who killed one Glasgow resident and wounded two others in January are expected to be revealed during a coroner's inquest set for May 19 in Glasgow.

There are still questions surrounding the shooting of three Glasgow residents at Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in January.

LEWISTOWN - Madison K. Miner, 84, a Navy veteran and retired state employee, died of cancer Thursday at his home in Lewistown.

The National Weather Service says we're not done with this record-breaking spring blizzard.

The FBI says a 14-year-old runaway girl from Erie, Pa., has been found in Arkansas along with a Montana rape suspect.

The FBI believes a 14-year-old girl missing from Erie, Pa., is traveling with a Billings man who was charged with raping five girls in Fergus County in 2005.

LEWISTOWN - Once a week, a group of Fergus County High School students meets to save the world.

An admissions representative from Montana State University in Bozeman will visit Great Falls-area schools next week.

Susan Seastrand's dream after graduating college was to land a teaching job in a classroom with students all the same age, where she could teach the same subject at one time.

Over the past 100 years, the Fergus County Courthouse has been where the people of central Montana come for their marriage licenses, to pay their taxes and to receive immunizations from the county nurse.

The cost of buying tickets online for concerts at the Montana Expopark is about to go down.