A Missoula man was charged with felony arson Friday after allegedly torching a Russell Street garage that belonged to a friend, who apparently told the suspect to leave his property earlier in the evening.
Ronald W. Hout, Jr., 39, is accused of throwing a burning object into a single-car garage at the intersection of Russell Street [...]
A 24-year-old Missoula man who robbed a bank and was shot during his escape pleaded guilty to the federal charges at a U.S. District Court hearing on Friday.
Peter M. Thompson was shot in the face by an officer on Jan. 12 after holding up a branch of the Missoula Federal Credit Union on Brooks Street. [...]
A coroner’s inquest is slated for Aug. 14 to determine more about the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman at the Missoula County Jail.
State law requires an inquest whenever someone dies in police custody.
Heather Wasson, 31, was alone in a jail cell when a detention officer discovered her body just after 9:30 p.m. on [...]
After nearly four years of litigation, the state of Montana has settled a lawsuit with amateur Missoula boxer Nate “Irish” Riley, who sued the promoters and regulators of a fight at the Wilma that left him brain-damaged.
In November 2005, Riley and his mother, Kathy, filed a lawsuit in Missoula District Court, alleging that the Montana [...]
After two separate mistrials failed to resolve a 2005 rape case, Daniel G. Tudahl opted Thursday to plead no contest to a lesser charge of sexual assault.
A plea agreement drafted this week calls for a four-year deferred sentence, and also credits Tudahl with a full year of time that he served both in jail and [...]
Missoula police are still looking for the man who robbed the Montana Club on North Reserve Street earlier this month, and have released still photographs from a surveillance camera in hopes that the public can help.
No one was injured in the armed robbery, which occurred just before 10 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14. The man [...]
A 35-year-old sex offender who allegedly spied on a woman while she tanned at a Missoula salon was charged with additional felonies on Friday.
Jesse William Kirk was arrested last month and pleaded guilty earlier this week to a single count of burglary. Chief Deputy Missoula County Attorney Kirsten Pabst filed two more counts of burglary [...]
A 35-year-old Missoula man has been charged in the hit-and-run accident that killed Beverly Joyce Felton, who was walking her bicycle across the intersection of Reserve Street and Old Highway 93 South.
Warren D. Harris appeared Thursday in Missoula County Justice Court and was charged with failure to remain at the scene of an accident resulting [...]
SUPERIOR – A Mineral County detention officer accused last year of raping an inmate, but who later pleaded guilty to lesser charges, received a deferred jail sentence at a court hearing on Wednesday.
Clyde Lee Dill, 52, of Superior, was initially charged with one count of sexual intercourse without consent and one count of attempted sexual [...]
A 19-year-old Hamilton woman was killed early Wednesday morning in a single-car crash at mile marker 6 on Skalkaho Highway.
A second passenger, also 19, was injured in the wreck, which occurred at approximately 12:40 a.m. She was taken to Marcus Daly Hospital. The extent of her injuries is unknown.
According to Ravalli County Sheriff Chris [...]