East Helena News

Here is the latest Montana news from The Associated Press Missoula , Mont. A Kalispell woman has been dealt a 27-month prison sentence for embezzling $227,000 from two companies she did bookkeeping work for.

HELENA - A man charged with crashing into and killing two people while drunk was jailed over the weekend with another drinking and driving charge.

Montana Lottery officials say five people have recently claimed major prizes from lottery games and scratch tickets.

A 7-year-old learning how to swim at the local pool is nothing new unless it's an 800-pound grizzly bear taking the plunge.

EAST HELENA - A branch of the public library housed at an East Helena middle school for the past eight years is moving to another building in town at the end of the school year.

The last two, of three lead smelter stacks that for decades stood as silent watch over East Helena, Mont., were felled at 7:38 Friday on the grounds of the now closed century-old lead smelter.

HELENA - If everything goes as planned, the Helena-area skyline will change forever Friday morning as crews detonate explosives and bring down three historic smokestacks at Asarco's defunct East Helena lead smelting plant.

EAST HELENA - Three historic Asarco smokestacks that once provided jobs for generations of families and defined East Helena took seconds to crumble during a demolition that thousands woke early to witness Friday morning.

Three smokestacks that towered over the Asarco lead smelter in East Helena, Montana have been demolished.

Three historic East Helena smokestacks are scheduled to come tumbling down Friday morning, and the team of people behind the demolition is taking many steps to ensure the safety of residents during the event.

The East Helena skyline will forever change next week when three smokestacks at Asarcoa s former lead smelting plant will be demolished.

The East Helena skyline will forever change next week when three smokestacks at Asarcoa s former lead smelting plant will be demolished.

The East Helena skyline will forever change next week when three smokestacks at Asarcoa s former lead smelting plant will be demolished.

The East Helena skyline will forever change next week when three smokestacks at Asarcoa s former lead smelting plant will be demolished.

The Fourth Annual Montana Wild West Fest will be held August 8th and 9th, 2009 at the Historic Kleffner Ranch in East Helena, Montana.

The East Helena skyline will forever change next week when three smokestacks at Asarcoa s former lead smelting plant will be demolished.

Officials say arsenic that could have come from a former Asarco lead smelter nearby has been detected in three residential wells in a subdivision near East Helena.

Officials say arsenic that could have come from a former Asarco lead smelter nearby has been detected in three residential wells in a subdivision near East Helena.

HELENA - East Helena's skyline will change next month. The three smokestacks at Asarco's former lead smelting plant will be demolished Aug.

A 32-year-old man charged in a June 24 crash that left a Helena couple dead has pleaded not guilty to two counts of vehicular homicide while under the influence.