Musselshell News

UPDATE a ' 5:15 p.m. Wednesday:A Musselshell Deputy County Attorney Lance Lundvall announced this afternoon that Robert Coksey, 67, of Roundup has been charged with deliberate homicide in a fatal shooting of Tracy Lee Beardslee of Roundup.A Musselshell Justice of the Peace Donna Marsh sent the bond at $500,000. ROUNDUP a ' At 4:06 p.m. Tuesday, ...

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ROUNDUP - Musselshell County received most of the money the state Coal Board distributed as grants recently, and the county already is using some of those dollars to recruit a deputy sheriff and buy two patrol cars.

Four Montana economic development organizations, one town and an Indian reservation will receive more than $252,000 combined in U.S. Department of Commerce grants.

The Montana Highway Patrol has released the name of a 41-year-old Musselshell man who died in a one-vehicle rollover between Melstone and Roundup.

BILLINGS - State officials say they plan to extinguish nine fires smoldering in underground coal seams in eastern Montana, including a 20-year-old blaze that sparked a large wildfire last year.

Despite a snowy December, more precipitation may be needed to fill some northcentral Montana streams, according to snowpack figures released Thursday by the Natural Resources Conservation Services in Bozeman.

There will be two big events for kids at this yeara s Winter Fair, the traditional Stick Horse Rodeo and a new event, the pedal tractor agility contest.

A week of stormy weather propelled Montana snowpack numbers to average or above-average levels for river basins east of the Divide and added as many as 26 percentage points to a much weaker pack west of the ...

With one-third of the snow season nearly gone, snowpack is running behind, except in the Wyoming mountains that feed the Tongue, Powder and Bighorn river basins.

In 1956, Mary Matovich wrote a Christmas letter to her children that told a remarkable story.