Lincoln News

Authorities say a 51-year-old man was killed when he crashed his all-terrain vehicle on Montana 200 in Lincoln.

BIG SANDY - The Big Sandy community is holding a fundraiser Friday to help the Pearson family, whose home was destroyed in a suspected arson fire May 1. Ron and Gay Pearson's ranch is about 40 miles southeast of Big Sandy on the banks of the Missouri River.

Beginning this weekend, the Lincoln Ranger District office will be open on the weekends throughout the summer to accommodate visitors who want to see the 12-year-old grizzly bear killed by a truck in October 2007 near Lincoln.

On April 3, 1996, FBI agents raided the rural Montana cabin of Ted Kaczynski to search for evidence linking him to the Unabomber's 16 bombings.

HELENA - Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg and Tom DeWeese, founder of the American Policy Center, will headline the Flathead Republican Party's annual Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner on Saturday in Kalispell.

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TUCSON, Ariz. - A Tucson-based mining company has submitted its proposal to pay at least $1.1 billion to settle environmental liabilities nationwide, including four sites in Montana.

Edward Anthony Gallik, 81, of Great Falls, a former Great Northern Railroad employee and Marine Corps veteran, died of natural causes Friday at Peace Hospice.

LEWISTOWN - Russell C. Johnson, 89, a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran, died of heart failure Wednesday at a care center in Lewistown.

New Hampshire musher Matt Carstens finished a 250-mile race across the wilderness of northern Maine at 3:53 a.m. Monday to claim his second Can-Am Crown.

HELENA - School trustees in Lincoln and Sheridan have adopted a four-day school week, starting in the fall.

With employment opportunities in the area scarce, firefighting might prove to be one recession-proof job option this year.

MISSOULA - A Missoula developer has reached an agreement to buy Stimson Lumber Co.'s sawmill site in Bonner, both sides have announced.

HELENA - The Lincoln School Board is scheduled to vote next month on whether to implement a four-day school week beginning next fall.

First, storm the offices. Then, smack your alleged perpetrator right in the mouth.

Longtime Great Falls resident Melvin R. 'Porky' Reeve, 83, of Lincoln, a World War II Army veteran, died of cardiac arrest Saturday night at a Great Falls hospital.

HELENA - A 44-year-old Lincoln woman has pleaded guilty to cashing her dead boyfriend's Social Security checks.

Gilbert and Tillie Zimbelman celebrated 70 years of marriage on Dec. 31, 2008. The couple married on New Year's Eve, 1938, in the Rainbow Hotel.

Joel Jewett spent his teen years in the 1970s in Great Falls wearing out his skateboard wheels and listening to rock 'n' roll.

''I've been duped,'' Sales said after the Lee Newspapers State Bureau provided articles showing these quotes were falsely attributed to Lincoln.