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Published on Mon, 01/20/2020 - 5:05pm
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Small plane crashes in Big Timber

Published on Mon, 01/20/2020 - 5:02pm
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A small plane crashed at the Big Timber airport late Thursday night. Certified flight instructor George Schmalz and his student Jacob Karp, the only passengers aboard the Cessna 172, survived

Fourth place and time’s ticking

Published on Mon, 01/20/2020 - 5:00pm
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Livingston remained in fourth place in Small Business Revolution voting as of Monday, according to an update on the show’s Facebook page. Small Business Revolution is a web series produced

Livingston woman crowned Miss Rodeo Montana

Published on Mon, 01/20/2020 - 5:00pm
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A Livingston woman has been named Miss Rodeo Montana 2020. Katie Lynn Kraus, the 24-year-old daughter of Ted and Carrie Kraus of Livingston, was recently crowned in front of pageant

Details emerge on Big Timber shooting

Published on Mon, 01/20/2020 - 5:00pm
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Court documents filed last week shed new light on the alleged circumstances surrounding the New Year’s Eve shooting death of a Big Timber man. Kevin Walla of Big Timber is

Eastside Coffee opens ‘satellite’ on Main

Published on Mon, 01/20/2020 - 4:39pm
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East Side Coffee now has a branch store — Eastside Coffee on Main.

“It’s a satellite,” laughed Diane Gracey, who, with her business partner, Michael Raftery, owns both the original East Side Coffee at 317 E. Clark St., which launched in May of last year, and the new “satellite,” which opened last month at 131 N. Main.

The store came about when Pura Vida 406, which rents the space to Eastside Coffee on Main, told them, “I would love to have you next door,” Gracey said.

“We just couldn’t pass up the opportunity,” she said.

Mountain lion feeding on carcass thrills wildlife viewers

Published on Mon, 01/20/2020 - 4:15pm
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JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Photo safari trip leader Brent Paull’s game plan one day this month happily went out the window.

A traveling wildlife guide from Tulare, California, Paull had just wrapped up leading three West Coast photographers on a three-day Yellowstone National Park tour. The group rolled into Jackson in the late afternoon to round out their week in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, pulling in around 4:15 p.m. to the parking lot of the Super 8 Hotel.

Judge: Conservation group can look into energy panel

Published on Mon, 01/20/2020 - 4:14pm

BILLINGS (AP) — A conservation group can seek details from the Trump administration on whether it followed recommendations from an illegally created industry advisory group to ease rules for oil, gas and coal extraction, according to a federal court ruling.

U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy said in a late Thursday ruling that there was “a significant question” on whether the administration had followed the advice of the Royalty Policy Committee.

Sobriety brought together 4 victims of plane crash

Published on Mon, 01/20/2020 - 4:13pm

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — For Mikel Peterson, Jan. 11 was supposed be a chance at a better life.

Since he was a teenager in Billings, Peterson, 35, had struggled with addiction. Within the last few months his older sister Stacie Peterson said she noticed a change in her younger brother, as he talked with increasing seriousness about his desire to get into a sober living home.

The chance came for him to move into one in Billings. Peterson had been sober “for some time,” but he felt this was the extra push he needed to stay that way, his mother Sue Alexander Pruitt said.

Thousands rally in Virginia’s capital for gun rights

Published on Mon, 01/20/2020 - 4:11pm
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Thousands of gun-rights activists rallied peacefully at the Virginia Capitol on Monday under a heavy police presence, protesting plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation. 

The size of the rally and the expected participation of white supremacists and fringe militia groups raised fears that the state could see a repeat of the violence that exploded in 2017 in Charlottesville. But the rally concluded uneventfully around noon, and attendees spilled into the streets, chanting and waving signs.