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Law enforcement professionals and dog handlers are teaming up to improve the way Flathead County's canines are trained, deployed and funded through a new nonprofit organization.
Plea deal offers suspended sentence in fatal trailer fire Follow Us Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Sunday, January 24, 2021 KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) - A Kalispell man who was charged with deliberate homicide after his father died in a trailer fire has reached a plea agreement on a lesser charge that recommends a five-year probationary sentence. Jason Weldele, 42, was charged in the October death of Daniel Weldele, 63. Jason Weldele had acted erratically before and after the fire and investigators fo...
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Native American Marine vet considered a homeland hero Tristan Scott, The Flathead Beacon [Montana] via AP October 21, 2017 In this Oct. 5, 2017 photo, Jesse DesRosier, a Marine veterans and Blackfoot language instructor at Cuts Wood School poses in Browning, Mont. DesRosier’s 28-year journey is a dizzying endeavor, even if he’s right back where he started - living on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. (Greg Lindstrom /Flathead Beacon via AP) KALISPELL, Mont. — Charting Jesse DesRosier’s 28-year journey is a dizzying endeavor, even if he’s right back where he started — livi...
Sen. Fitzpatrick Talks COVID Liability Protections from Helena [FULL AUDIO] Will the COVID-19 liability protection bill before the Montana Legislature shield businesses from frivolous lawsuits and truly provide them with liability protection, or will the bill impose more liability instead? That's one of the big questions the bill's sponsor, State Sen. Steve Fitzpatrick (R-Great Falls), says he is getting. We talked about Senate Bill 65 and more with Sen. Fitzpatrick on the radio on Monday. Click below for the full audio: Governor Greg Gianforte (R-MT) is also backing SB65 which is sponso...
Meanwhile, A COVID liability protection bill is already moving through the legislature in Helena.