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Please, please, please use seatbelts

Too many people are grieving as a result of this accident on U.S. Highway 93 North.

All that’s clear are the consequences: two teenage cousins dead in one car; a young mother dead, her two sons and their father badly hurt in the other.

Stephanie Nicole Parker-Shepard, 21, of Arlee, was [...]

Tragedy mars long weekend

It was a tough holiday weekend in western Montana.

The body found Friday in the woods near Superior did indeed turn out to be that of Kelly Dube-Woodard, missing since last Tuesday:

Dube-Woodard’s ex-husband, Michael Woodard, remains in custody at an Elko, Nev., jail. Woodard was arrested in Nevada on Wednesday after [...]

Weekend roundup – Police fitness. Anger management. Boozy candy. DUI bill. Fatal crash. Athletes hurt.

There’s a regular smorgasbord of Cops and Courts news in the Missoulian this weekend, from features, legislative action, a near-tragedy and a sad fatality. Here’s a summary:

Tough tryouts: Next time you hear a snide comment about cops and doughnuts, tell folks to take a look at Joe Nickell’s story on the physical [...]

Flathead teen drops suit against victims after homicide conviction

A lawsuit that might have seemed the very definition of hubris – a young woman who crashed her car into another car, killing a pregnant woman and her son, sued the woman’s estate – is being dropped.

Not at all coincidentally, that same young woman, Justine Winters, was just convicted in Flathead County [...]

Cops and Courts Quote of the Day – Suicide texts from Kalispell teen?

“Good bye … My last words …” “If I won. I would have you. And I wouldn’t crash my car.”

Text messages allegedly sent by 16-year-old Justine Winter after her boyfriend ended their relationship. She’s on trial in Kalispell, accused of crashing her car in a suicide attempt, and killing two people [...]