Last year, Butte lost the historic M&M Bar, which closed. (It was supposed to reopen for St. Patrick’s day, but that plan fizzled.)
It lost a more modern part of the community yesterday, when its only McDonald’s burned.
John Grant Emeigh of the Montana Standard reports:
A fire that started in the [...]
Take a day away from the office and cops and courts news breaks out. Here’s a recap of just a few of the things that happened:
In Taser news, here’s the Billings Gazette’s follow-up on an inquest that showed methamphetamine actually caused the death of a man zapped by police with a stun [...]
Props to the Associated Press for this one:
Gravity was the downfall of a man suspected of assaulting a woman in Butte.
The Montana Standard reports the 19-year-old was apparently hiding on the roof of a duplex as officers investigated a woman’s report that a man came to her door and [...]
Butte’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration is legendary for its, uh, exuberance. But the organizer of this year’s parade (posing with members of the Edmonton Police Pipes and Drums) allegedly took things a little too far, according to the Montana Standard:
Mollie A. Kirk, 61, of Butte faces a possible fourth offense [...]