Deer Lodge News

A Great Falls man who admitted violating a no contact order and other terms of his probation has been sentenced to three years in the Department of Corrections, with 18 months suspended, and a recommendation for him to attend "boot camp." Calvin Tyrone Bowens Jr., 30, formerly of Washington and more recently of Great Falls, admitted in Montana 15th ... (more)

Two days have been set aside for the hearing into the fate of Ronald Smith, a former resident of Red Deer, Alta.

A man serving a life sentence for the 1982 death of a Great Falls woman was denied his petition for parole after a hearing in Deer Lodge on Friday.

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

Montana State Prison officials are in contract negotiations to provide translation services to inmates who receive correspondence in languages other than English, a response to a convicted killer's lawsuit challenging the prison's letter policy.

Lawyers for the only Canadian on death row in the United States concede their client committed a "terrible offence" when he murdered two young Montana men 30 years ago, but say he doesn't deserve to die.