Missoulian reporter Keila Szpaller weighs in on the sexual harassment lawsuit that a Missoula police detective filed against her male colleague.
I wasn’t able to get a comment from Missoula Police Chief Mark Muir prior to the story’s publication because, as it turns out, he was in Nashville making a speech at a conference. But Szpaller [...]
Take a look at this story about a 36-year-old woman’s guilty plea last week to charges that she blackmailed Bozeman developer William Martel over an alleged prostitution ring under investigation by the FBI.
Martel is the namesake of Montana State University’s Martel Field.
Missoula’s own Morgan Modine is representing Shannon Michelle Clark in the case, and it [...]
When a Missoula judge pronounced Lonnie Ray Hylton’s 30-year prison sentence on Wednesday, he spoke over a mournful chorus of grief-stricken family members.
Seated in rows on the wooden benches, everyone who filed into the crowded courtroom was devastated by Hylton’s actions, but they cried for different reasons – the broken-down parents because they will never [...]
A Missoula police detective has filed a lawsuit alleging that a male colleague assaulted her in a workplace cubicle, contributing to unsafe and hostile work conditions.
Detective Jamie Merifield claims in her lawsuit that, on July 31, 2007, Detective Richard Dean Chrestenson “approached her, separated her legs, placed his knee between her thighs and leaned into [...]
A 58-year-old fugitive who was featured last year on the television show America’s Most Wanted appeared Tuesday in a Missoula courtroom and accepted charges that he shot and killed his girlfriend here in 1985.
Robert Thomas Chickene entered Alford pleas to felony counts of deliberate homicide and evidence tampering, and pleaded guilty to a third charge [...]
In the three months that I covered the criminal trial of W.R. Grace & Co., I frequently parked outside the Russell Smith federal courthouse in Missoula, averaging about two parking tickets a day.
Most mornings I’d pump a buck in quarters into the meter and make a frenzied dash to the courthouse to watch the trial, [...]
The co-pilot of a small aircraft landed the plane at Missoula International Airport around 3:30 p.m. Sunday after the pilot apparently suffered a heart attack, according to public safety officials.
The pilot’s wife alerted the control tower of the emergency before landing the plane safely. Once on the ground, an ambulance rushed the Washington couple to [...]
A 22-year-old woman was arrested Saturday for allegedly stabbing two men outside the Oxford Saloon, on the corner of Pine and Higgins in downtown Missoula, and for attempting to stab a woman, according to Missoula police.
Lacey Jade Tollefson, of Havre, was jailed on three counts of attempted deliberate homicide for her alleged role in the [...]
In an aspen grove along the Clark Fork River, just east of the Reserve Street bridge, Jake the Argus-eyed pit bull keeps watch over the cleanest transient camp in Missoula.
Last weekend, however, the marble-coated canine, normally vigilant and circumspect, slept through a bloodletting that turned the secluded bivouac into a crime scene, and prompted Missoula [...]
Brian Auchenbach received a three-year deferred sentence Tuesday for a single count of felony intimidation.
Auchenbach, who is retired, was arrested in December 2007 after a county building inspector arrived on his property and inquired about an unauthorized construction project.
When the inspector asked Auchenbach if he had obtained permits for an addition he was building, the [...]