A 21-year-old University of Montana student arrested earlier this month for a string of drug-related robberies at a Walgreens pharmacy was released on Monday, and is headed to the Connections Corrections program in Butte for inpatient chemical dependency treatment.
Daniel Wilson Nania was arrested March 4, and Federal Public Defender John Rhodes was appointed to represent [...]
A 32-year-old Missoula man was arrested Monday for allegedly cashing $1,500 in stolen checks, although law enforcement caught wind of the scheme through pure happenstance.
Ryan M. Ward was in the middle of rolling a marijuana cigarette in a public restroom at the Mullan Station convenience store on North Reserve Street when a sheriff’s deputy stopped [...]
A 38-year-old Missoula man was charged Friday with the deliberate homicide of his three-month-old son, Gabriel, who died in October from brain injuries related to “shaken baby syndrome,” according to court records.
Robert J. Wilkes was arrested Friday morning after Missoula police detectives concluded their investigation and determined the infant sustained his traumatic injuries while in [...]
Until today, I hadn’t had much time to reflect on Missoula’s recent efforts to save the iconic downtown clock.
Even though the thing isn’t working at the moment – until a bill of sale is finalized, the time in Missoula is a static 9:50 – the clock remains a ballast in my professional life as a [...]
Dr. Aubrey Miller testifying on June 12, 2007 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works about the health effects of asbestos.
Every witness of import that the government has called to testify in the W.R. Grace & Co. trial has been met by fierce opposition from the defense.
First, there was Paul Peronard, the [...]
During a quarrelsome cross-examination Wednesday, defense counsel for W.R. Grace & Co. implied that a key government witness misled jurors with claims of corporate malfeasance because he has a personal ax to grind.
Robert Locke, a global vice president of Grace’s construction products division, left the company in 1998 under bitter circumstances, and has a pending [...]
On Friday, March 20, Justice of the Peace Karen Orzech refused to accept the guilty pleas of a woman charged with two counts of Driving Under the Influence of alcohol, until after the woman submitted to a breathalyzer. Orzech said she suspected the woman was drunk based on her responses, and because she couldn’t stand [...]
A former W.R. Grace & Co. employee testified Monday that he warned supervisors about the hazards of Libby vermiculite as far back as 1976, when studies showed that products were releasing high levels of dangerous asbestos fibers.
“I felt there was a train wreck occurring and I wanted to tell my boss,” said Robert Locke, a [...]
Jurors in the W.R. Grace & Co. criminal trial on Thursday heard from a company researcher who said it was “impossible” to make products from Libby vermiculite that didn’t release asbestos.
Dr. Julie Yang worked as research manager for Grace for 20 years and now lives in California, where she works as a consultant for the [...]
Chest x-ray of a Libby resident
Jurors in the W.R. Grace & Co. criminal trial on Thursday heard testimony from a toxicologist who oversaw a chest x-ray study among a group of Libby miners.
The study, which was commissioned by Grace in 1977, was then compared to x-ray results from workers at another Grace facility in South [...]