Yellowstone County News

From The K-B-L-G News Center... YELLOWSTONE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE CHAIR RAY TRACY ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THAT HE INTENDS TO RUN FOR MAYOR OF BILLINGS.

A Yellowstone County judge heard testimony Tuesday on whether a Ballantine dog breeder is mentally fit to stand trial for animal cruelty, but it could be several weeks before she makes a decision.

Another candidate has announced that he's throwing his hat in race for Mayor of the city of Billings.

Yellowstone County Sheriff Chuck Maxwell has died after a battle with cancer. Yellowstone County officials say Sheriff Maxwell died Friday night about 10 p.m. at home with family.

A woman is accused of leaving her 6-month-old child in a pickup truck parked at a Billings bar, while she drank and danced for two hours.

Pull out the kilts and dust off the bagpipes the Yellowstone Highland Games kick off in a few days.

On May 5, 2009, the Board of County Commissioners passed a Resolution of Intent to Adopt Amended Yellowstone County Subdivision Regulations.

Police have taken a suspect into custody as authorities investigate a robbery at the Laurel Golf Course.

Court documents say 14-year-old Lance Myran told detectives that his father shot a Three Forks woman last month, and that Lance helped put her body in a burn barrel, and got wood for the fire to burn her body.

For the past six months, county employees and volunteers have taken care of hundreds of dogs seized from a Ballantine breeder accused of animal cruelty, but the breeder is back in business now trying to sell new puppies.

A Yellowstone County judge has ordered a new trial in the case of a former BNSF Railway worker whose injury claims against the company were rejected by a jury, according to the Billings Gazette.

SHEPHERD - Edward Merton "Bud" Comly, 68, of Shepherd, died of natural causes Tuesday at his home.

Yellowstone County Officials are trying to hammer out a deal with the General Services Administration on a new federal courthouse in downtown Billings.

An ad-hoc committee appointed by the Billings City Council will meet at noon Friday, June 5, in the City Hall Conference Room to begin studying what annexation incentives, if any, the City should offer to Yellowstone County property owners near the East Billings Urban Renewal District .

A former Billings minister accused of murdering his wife is back in Montana tonight.

The Yellowstone County Sheriff's Office is full of trained deputies, but reserve deputies are making an impact by supplementing their staff.

From The K-B-L-G News Center... A 31-YEAR-OLD BILLINGS MAN WAS KILLED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON IN THE HEIGHTS WHEN THE MOTORCYCLE THAT HE WAS DRIVING SLAMMED INTO A CAR.

Sentencing in a drug case against former Carbon County Attorney Robert Eddleman has been postponed to allow time for resolving any defense objections to the pre-sentencing report.

One person is dead after a two-vehicle accident on 12-Mile Road in Shepherd. The 19-year old driver of a passenger car died after his vehicle crossed over the centerline near Scandia Road into the path of a truck pulling a horse trailer.

Published: Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 12:02 a.m. Former Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry, who was arrested in Auburndale two weeks ago for allegedly violating bond conditions on a federal drug conviction, has been returned to Montana.