Read the plea agreement.
A man accused of plotting the grisly slayings of three women at a Florence hair salon in 2001 has accepted a plea deal that clears him of federal murder charges.
Lincoln C. Benavides, 35, is scheduled to plead guilty to two felony drug counts next week in U.S. District Court in Missoula, according [...]
A 44-year-old woman was killed Wednesday afternoon in a three-car collision near the intersection of Mullan Road and Deschamps Lane.
Kerina A. Rose of Stevensville was driving a green Subaru station wagon heading east on Mullan when she stopped for a dog that was crossing the road, according to Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Sean Finley.
A man [...]
Jurors slapped a Swiss pharmaceutical company with a $3.2 million verdict Wednesday, wrapping up a Missoula woman’s lawsuit that will have bearing on hundreds of cases against the company nationwide.
The jury of six men and six women received the case Tuesday afternoon and deliberated for six hours before retiring for the evening. The panel reconvened [...]
Civil and criminal cases go to trial in an ornate, top-floor courtroom at the Missoula County Courthouse, that neoclassical, ironclad dome where justice is doled out 52 weeks a year in the Garden City.
The courtroom’s walls are bedecked with law books and a goddess-of-justice mural by Edgar Samuel Paxson, and the air smells of must [...]
A lawsuit against a Swiss pharmaceutical company went to trial last week in Missoula, but a verdict in the case could have national significance for hundreds of plaintiffs suing the company in a mass tort.
Peggy L. Stevens of Missoula filed suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. last year, alleging the company was professionally negligent when it [...]
A former Grizzly football player was given a two-year deferred sentence Tuesday for his role in the September 2008 assault on a University of Montana student.
Andrew J. Douglass, 19, will spend the next two years on felony probation. He pleaded guilty in August to a felony charge of criminal endangerment, though his criminal record will [...]
In a departure from the previous administration’s stance on state medical marijuana laws, pot-smoking patients and their licensed providers will no longer be targeted by criminal prosecutions, Justice Department officials announced Monday.
Touting its commitment to the “efficient and rational use” of federal resources, the department issued a memorandum to federal prosecutors in the 14 states [...]
Read Judge Lynch’s order.
A federal judge issued a default judgment Thursday in a civil rights lawsuit against the Missoula Police Department, ruling that officers used unreasonable force when they arrested a retired physician on obstruction charges last year.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C. Lynch handed down the order as a sanction for the department’s failure to [...]
A 32-year-old Missoula man was charged with 10 felonies Wednesday for allegedly stealing more than 2,000 pain pills from a health clinic and forging numerous prescriptions at area pharmacies.
Aleksandr F. Chinikaylo was arrested Tuesday after trying to fill fake prescriptions at two pharmacies within about an hour’s time. He admitted to forging prescriptions at other [...]
Missoula police have released a photograph of the man who robbed Gilly’s Gas at gunpoint early Sunday morning. Meanwhile, detectives continue to investigate another pair of armed robberies that happened within an hour of each other later in the evening.
Both of the nighttime robberies took place in the vicinity of a grocery store – the [...]