BILLINGS – Several dogs abandoned at a southern Montana landfill have found a new fur-ever home. A Billings couple are now fostering the dogs and say donations are needed. The couple has a baby on the way and already has six other animals to take care of on top of the four they rescued from … Read more
A licensed mental health counselor in Butte must pay nearly $50,000 in restitution for defrauding Medicaid. State prosecutors say Katie Crowe submitted fake Medicaid claims and records between 2017 and 2020. In accordance with the plea agreement she was given a five-year suspended sentence and the judge ordered her to pay back bilked funds in … Read more
BUTTE – Prosecutors have released new details about a shooting that left a house on Hummingbird Lane riddled with bullets earlier this month. Conner Tex Thomas Webster fired at least four shots from a 9mm handgun into the house March 7, after he had broken up with his girlfriend who lived there, prosecutors say in … Read more
An East Helena woman charged for her role in an identity theft ring is going to jail. Jessica Rose Menth, 33, was sentenced late last week [March 23] to three months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after she admitted to being involved in a mail theft scheme to steal documents, checks, … Read more
A shortage of behavioral health providers in Montana is being blamed on an ongoing debate about Medicaid reimbursement rates, among Republican lawmakers. A 2022 study found that Montana Medicaid providers were being significantly underpaid. State lawmakers agree the Medicaid reimbursement rates should be raised, but cannot agree on how much, putting a strain on some … Read more
MISSOULA – A former Missoula nurse who admitted to stealing drugs while working at St. Patrick Hospital in 2021 has learned her fate. Caitlin Ashley Evans pleaded guilty last year [2022] to diverting opioids from the hospital since the fall of 2020 and replacing them with saline. The 37 year old was sentenced to three … Read more
BOZEMAN – Students at Montana State University have recently received disturbing, racially motivated death threats. Now, students are asking how the university is going to protect students of color and other minorities on campus. MSU said on Feb. 16, and on Feb. 23, graphiclly detailed death threats were sent via email, with hateful language targeting … Read more
There will be a Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans observance this Wednesday at the Capitol complex. The event is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords that were signed Jan. 23, 1973, prompting the removal of the remaining military units from Vietnam. There will be a veterans honor walk and a wreath laying at … Read more
Enough is enough. That’s what a District Judge said Thursday when rejecting pleas for leniency during sentencing for 53-year-old Larry James Evans of Butte, who has been in and out of jail for 35 years on a long list of previous charges and convictions. OIn the most recent vehicle thefts and drug-possession charges from 2021, … Read more
Former Butte Rescue Mission Director Rocky Lyons has won a cash settlement for a false arrest in Jefferson County, bringing three years of litigation to an end. The county admitted that a dispatcher negligently told a deputy a theft warrant for Lyons was valid when it was not, and she was arrested at her home … Read more