Laurel News

From The K-B-L-G News Center... LAUREL STANDOUT OLIVIA HEIDINGER HAS SIGNED A NATIONAL LETTER OF INTENT TO PLAY FOR THE MONTANA STATE BILLINGS SOFTBALL PROGRAM DURING THE 2010-2011 SEASON.

BILLINGS - The Yellowstone County Veterans' Cemetery is being pushed as a potential national cemetery to be maintained by the federal government.

The town of Laurel could become home to national veterans' cemetery. The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved legislation by Senator Jon Tester that would put the new Yellowstone County Veterans' Cemetery in the running to become a national veterans' cemetery.

More than 100 current and former servicemen and women were honored Wednesday at the Yellowstone County Veterans Cemetery in Laurel.

There are numerous Veterans Day events scheduled in the Billings area today. Beginning at 10:00 this morning, a celebration is set for the U.S. Armed Forces Reserve Center in Billings.

Class A football teams will find out today whether a week's worth of rest will benefit the top-ranked teams.

Here is the latest Montana news from The Associated Press LAUREL, Mont. Officials at CHS refinery in Laurel are investigating a butane leak that happened last month.

BILLINGS - A Laurel woman has been charged with felony criminal endangerment and misdemeanor drunk driving in connection with a crash that happened while her children were in the car.

Hundreds of people waited in line for hours at an H1N1 walk-in clinic in Billings on Monday, and RiverStone Health officials had to cut-off the line about two hours after opening the clinic.

A preliminary report has been released on last week's plane crash that killed a Billings man and a Lavina pilot.

HELENA - Fog was hampering efforts to resume a search Wednesday morning for a small airplane with two people on board that took off from Wyoming on Tuesday but did not land at its final destination in Laurel, Department of Transportation officials said.

Yellowstone County officials say that two men were killed when their small plane crashed about 25 miles southeast of Billings.

Authorities are looking for a small airplane that took off from Wyoming but did not land at its final destination in southern Montana.

As part of a $1.8 million improvements project, Ronan now has one of three - four counting the University of Montana's Washington-Grizzly Stadium - football fields with artificial turf in the state, according to a story in the Missoulian .

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HELENA - A college business professor from Laurel says she is going to enter the Republican primary to challenge incumbent U.S. Rep.

From The K-B-L-G News Center... IN PREP VOLLEYBALL, BILLINGS SENIOR WENT 4-AND-0 AT THE FIRST ANNUAL BORDER WAR INVITE IN SHERIDAN, WYOMING, FEATURING TEAMS FROM MONTANA AGAINST WYOMING SQUADS.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Mark Voss, of Laurel, Mont., with 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion 5th Marines, fires his M240B machine gun at Taliban in Nawa district, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, Oct.

From The K-B-L-G News Center... 62-YEAR-OLD ROBERT DILLER OF PARK CITY IS IN THE BILLINGS CLINIC WITH SERIOUS INJURIES FOLLOWING A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT JUST OUTSIDE OF LAUREL.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Mark Voss, of Laurel, Mont., with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion 5th Marines, walks on patrol in an area frequented by Taliban militants, in Nawa district, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Monday, Sept.