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While hotels across the state are booked solid, during the pandemic many people opted to move there permanently, creating the “Zoom Town Boom” effect across the state.
Contract miners at the huge Chilean copper mine are demanding they be paid prevailing wages, while oil workers at the “green division” of the Brazilian state oil from Petrobras are continuing a strike that began May 20.
THOMPSON FALLS, Mont. (AP) â For a moment, the entire courtroom froze. Judge Amy Eddy had spent the last several minutes winding her way through a painstakingly detailed explanation of her impending decision, touching on each argument she had been presented with while alternately glancing at prosecutors, defense attorneys and Rachel Ann Bellesen, the 37-year-old mother of four sitting stoically with the weight of the last seven months dangling over her head. Then two heavy words knifed through the tension in the crowded room: âwith prejudice.â When the power of those words even...
THOMPSON FALLS, Mont. (AP) — For a moment, the entire courtroom froze.
The third convicted Montana Freemen is living in Billings after spending the majority of the last 25 years of his life in prison.