Toole County News

The wheels of justice grind slowly, but this is pushing the envelope. In Montana's Toole County, retired District Judge Ronald McPhillips ruled this week in a lawsuit that was left hanging for nearly a quarter-century. The judge ruled in Great Falls against Milan Ayers, who contended that former partner James Rubow swindled him out of his share of ...

Rain may be a symbol of the blues in songs and movies, but the only blues at the Beautiful Minds Walk in Great Falls Saturday was from the band playing.

Toole County officials are searching for an unresolved civil lawsuit that's been missing for a quarter century.

A couple of young grizzly bears have been drawing attention in parts of Pondera and Toole counties and have even turned the heads of motorists on I-15 when the bruins were in a field east of the interstate.

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The last of three people charged in the beating death of a Shelby man was sentenced Thursday to four years in pre-release in addition to 16 years of supervised probation.

Bret Wanken, a 17-year old Shelby area youth, has died from an accidental shooting.

SHELBY - A 17-year-old Shelby boy has died as the result of an accidental shooting on his family's farm.

A Shelby man involved in a December 2007 murder was sentenced this afternoon . Aaron Evans learned his fate for the role he played in the killing of James Jardine.

Florence Carol Underdahl, 86, of 3361 Wild Rose Lane, died of natural causes Sunday at a local hospital.

Five days before employees were set to strike, Marias Medical Center workers reached an agreement with the Shelby hospital that both sides are calling a win.

With a freshly dug garden on the White House lawn and Michelle Obama as the First Champions of local food, American families are going back to their roots - literally - in droves.

CUT BANK - Benjamin Bearchild, who has been without work and living with family since December, found hope on the job-listings board Thursday among the notices for cooks, a pizza delivery driver and a warehouse stock clerk.

A man remained in a Great Falls hospital Wednesday after he was shot in the eye with a pellet gun by another man Friday in Sweet Grass, according to the Toole County undersheriff.

SUNBURST - After eight years of legal wrangling and project planning, cleanup of a 19-acre petroleum plume beneath the town of Sunburst is finally under way.

SHELBY - Edmund F. Pechia, 82, of Shelby, a retired Toole County Road employee, died of asphyxia Tuesday at his home.

The 120 hospital workers at Shelby's Marias Medical Center voted this week to strike, setting the clock in motion for an April 25 walk-out date.

SWEET GRASS - U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Sweet Grass port of entry arrested a 64-year-old Canadian man found hiding in the sleeper of a semi tractor on Thursday.

A Canadian man living in Montana has been arrested after U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspectors say they found him hiding in a truck with nearly 600 prescription pills.