ROUNDUP - Carl Vernon Petersen, 90, a longtime Mosby and Winnett area rancher, died of natural causes Monday at a Roundup hospital.

BILLINGS - A district court judge has thrown out criminal charges against a Great Falls man involved in a 2005 highway crash that killed three people in the same vehicle.

STANFORD - Though now a successful sculptor, Steve Lillegard struggled early in his career.

By The Associated Press BOYS Basketball Billings Senior 76, Miles City 20 Ekalaka 64, Rosebud 23 Whitehall 49, Townsend 39 Wibaux 64, Baker 62 GIRLS BASKETBALL Baker 42, Wibaux 29 Belt 67, Augusta 12 Circle 48, Bainville 31 Lima 31, Leadore, Idaho 19 Melstone 30, Jordan 25 Moore-Judith Gap 66, Winnett-Grass Range 58 Park City 50, Bridger 46 ...

HELENA - Mons Teigen, 87, a leader in state agriculture and a former executive of the Montana Stockgrowers Association, died of natural causes Saturday in Helena.

Five lightning-caused fires were reported to the Lewistown Interagency Dispatch Center in the past three days.

LEWISTOWN - It is stepping back in time: No orange-topped fence posts, no locked gates and a stroll across a hayfield to a cold, knee-deep stream up against forested hills.