Lewis and Clark County News Archives

Can you pick the offender out of a lineup ? After 12 hours of deliberation, a jury sided with the parents of former Miles City American Legion baseball pitcher Brandon Patch in a civil suit over the player's death during a 2003 game in Helena.

A jury on Wednesday found that the maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats failed to adequately warn about the dangers the product can pose, awarding a family $850,000 for the 2003 death of their son in a baseball game.

After 12 hours of deliberation, a jury sided with the parents of former Miles City American Legion baseball pitcher Brandon Patch in a civil suit over the player's death during a 2003 game in Helena.

On Friday in Helena it was all about the women, as the city's first ever Women's Expo got underway at the Lewis and Clark County Fairgrounds.

Just three weeks after Montanaa s full smoking ban went into effect, Lewis and Clark County issued its first warning letter for violation of the Montana Clean Indoor Air Act.

Late Friday afternoon, local health officials confirmed the first death in Yellowstone County related to the H1N1 virus.

State health officials reported a rise in H1N1 cases in Montana, though exact numbers are no longer being tallied.

The trial of Sebastian Olivares-Coster, the teenager charged with killing one Helena boy and injuring two other teens, will change his plea, it was announced today.

WINIFRED - The town of Winifred will receive federal stimulus money to improve its wastewater collection system.

A jury has determined that the Lewis and Clark County Sheriff's office was not criminally liable in the death of a motorcyclist who crashed in Helena as he was being followed by a deputy.

A Billings middle school is seeing more absent students, who are home with flu and cold symptoms.

St. Peter's Hospital in Helena has closed visitation to anyone under the age of 24 as the H1N1 Flu keeps spreading.

Public health officials say a southwestern Montana resident died this week after being hospitalized for complications from the swine flu.

HELENA - New efforts are being made to commemorate the man who in 1911 flew an airplane over the Continental Divide, to make sure the moment is not lost to history.

Public health officials say a southwestern Montana resident died this week after being hospitalized for complications from the swine flu.

From The K-B-L-G News Center... AUTHORITIES SAY 81-YEAR-OLD LEO ERHARDT OF BILLINGS HAS DIED, THE RESULT OF BEING HIT BY A PICKUP TRUCK IN HELENA LAST MONTH.

HELENA - An 18-year-old Helena -area man has been charged with felony aggravated cruelty to animals after an 8-week-old puppy was beaten so badly that it had to be euthanized.

Nearly 300 people, including this Blackfeet crew, worked for days to contain the MacDonald Pass fire, which began this past Friday and was in mop-up mode on Tuesday.

A 24-year-old man convicted of attacking the Blaine County sheriff while being taken to Montana State Prison has been sentenced to 40 years in prison without parole.

With the full smoking ban now in effect, businesses that violate the new law are subject to punishment.