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It's not often you can take a true story based on a young man who gets cancer before slowly... Butte-Silver Bow County officials say a yearlong investigation has led to an arrest in the February 2011 stabbing death of a 62-year-old Butte man.

The 55-year-old led police on a car chase through Butte, Montana early Thursday morning, hitting speeds of over 100 mph.

A Fort Lauderdale judge sentenced a man who'd had an altercation with his wife to take her out on a "date'' that included elegant dining at the local Red Lobster followed by a night of bowling.

BUTTE, Mont. - A man who told officers he instigated a high speed police chase because he always wanted to try it, found out it'll cost him a $1,000 fine to go with his tire damage.

BUTTE, Mont. - A Butte man who told officers he instigated a police chase because he always wanted to try it, found out it'll cost him a $1,000 fine to go with his tire damage.

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That was the story that unfolded on Thursday as police in Butte, Montana, raced after a suspect who later told them 'I always wanted to do that'. The trouble began at about 3:25am when John C. Hughes, 55, closely followed a patrol car for seven blocks before pulling his Nissan Xterra into the centre lane and taking off at speeds of up to 70 mph.

A 55-year-old Butte man said wanted to see what it would be like to be involved in a police chase.

BUTTE, Mont. - A 55-year-old Montana man who says he "always wanted" to be part of a police chase can check that off his bucket list.

That was Butte, Mont., student Tyler Griffin's first response when he got the call after putting lost dog notices in the local paper, on the radio and on social media.

A Butte-Silver Bow County justice of the peace charged with illegally obtaining prescription drugs likely will be disqualified from the bench while the case against him moves forward, state officials said.

Trish Leaver and Matt Thompson were married Oct. 8 in Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Butte, with the Rev.

A Butte justice of the peace who authorities say doctor-shopped to get multiple prescriptions for the painkiller methadone has been charged with 12 felony counts of fraudulently obtaining dangerous drugs.

There are so many remakes these days it's as if anything created 20 years or more ago is a... In nonconference basketball action Thursday night, Great Falls High's boys defeated Havre 56-46 in the Electric City, and the Bison girls prevailed 50-30 in Havre.

A Montana newspaper checking court records found seven misdemeanor DUI citations that a city judge hid from the public by attaching notes that said, "Keep out of the paper for security reasons." The Montana Standard, in a story published Sunday, reported the seven tickets dated between May 21, 2009, and Oct.

A main point of the study was that 72 percent of the greenhouse gas pollution from more than 6,700... BUTTE - Silver Bow County officials say they are reviewing six years of pending and dismissed citations following a former Butte city judge's guilty plea to taking bribes for dismissing traffic and other misdemeanor tickets.