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Friday | KFBB

Barry Beach in Custody After Yesterday's Supreme Court Ruling

Touching on polarizing news that broke yesterday evening. The latest in the Barry Beach story as yesterday a 4-3 decision in the Supreme Court reversing a judges order that released Barry Beach from prison after doubts were raised on his guilt.

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Related Topix: Jon Tester, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Montana, Fort Peck, MT, Montana State Prison, State Prisons, Prison

Wed May 15, 2013

WJRT

Montana man back in custody over 1979 slaying

After two years of freedom, a Montana man is back in custody after a state Supreme Court ruling that could send him back to prison for the rest of his life for the 1979 slaying of a teenager A spokesman for the attorney general said Barry Beach was taken into custody without incident Wednesday morning by the Yellowstone County Sheriff's Office.

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Related Topix: Fort Peck, MT

Sun May 12, 2013

SFGate

Yellowstone County eyes work program for jail

Representatives from the sheriff's department and jail went to Boise, Idaho, to talk with Ada County officials about the work program there, Linder said.

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Thu May 09, 2013

Seattle Times

Transient drowned in Billings creek after fall

Yellowstone County officials say a transient whose body was found in a creek near Billings drowned after a fall that caused a severe neck injury.

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Wed May 08, 2013

NewsOK.com

Yellowstone County gives tax break to coal mine

Yellowstone County commissioners have approved tax breaks lasting up to nine years for Signal Peak Energy and its Bull Mountain coal mine south of Roundup.

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Related Topix: Roundup, MT, Musselshell County, MT

Tue May 07, 2013

El Paso Times

Man, son charged in knife fight at strip club

A 49-year-old Texas man and his 24-year-old son face felony assault charges after being accused of drawing knives as the son tried to re-enter a Montana strip club after hours to get a dancer's phone number.

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Wed May 01, 2013

WCHS-TV Charleston

Montana hospital says woman posed as nurse

Health care officials in Montana say a woman posing as a nurse at a Billings hospital accompanied doctors on patient checks.

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Tue Apr 30, 2013

WIFR

Montana Sheriff Says Inmate Attempted Jail Escape

Yellowstone County authorities say escape charges are expected against a man charged with murder who allegedly tried to break out of jail.

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KOTA-TV Rapid City

Police identify pilot in fatal helicopter crash

Yellowstone County authorities have tentatively identified the pilot killed in a helicopter crash as an 81-year-old Billings man.

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Fri Apr 26, 2013

KRMG-AM Tulsa

Billings man faces charges over pepper spray use

A Billings man accused of discharging pepper spray into a car carrying his stepdaughter's two young children, the stepdaughter and a man is facing assault charges.

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POZ

Morgan Ditto Is Yellowstone AIDS Project Executive Director

Morgan Ditto has been named executive director of the Yellowstone AIDS Project in Montana, the Billings Gazette reports.

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Wed Apr 24, 2013

Great Falls Tribune

Inmate awaiting sentencing charged with assault

A man awaiting sentencing for a May 2012 assault at a southcentral Montana cemetery is now charged with assaulting a fellow inmate at the Yellowstone County jail.

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Tue Apr 23, 2013

Great Falls Tribune

Suspects in fatal house fire face tampering charge

Two men charged with starting a mobile home fire in Lockwood that killed four people as they slept are being held on $150,000 bond each after an initial court appearance in Billings.

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Related Topix: Fire, Lockwood, MT, Billings, MT

Sat Apr 20, 2013

KFBB

Arrests Made in Deadly Mobile Home Fire

Yellowstone County sheriff's detectives have arrested two men in connection with the tragic blaze.

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Related Topix: Fire

Fri Apr 19, 2013

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

2 arrested after 4 found dead in burned Mont. home

A body is removed from 206 Hemlock Drive in Lockwood, near Billings, Mont., on Thursday, April 18, 2013 after a fire started in a trailer home.

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Related Topix: Billings, MT, Lockwood, MT, Fire

The Miami Herald

2 arrested after 4 die in Montana mobile home fire

Two men have been arrested in Montana on suspicion of negligent homicide hours after four bodies were removed from a burned-out mobile home near Billings.

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Related Topix: Billings, MT, Lockwood, MT

Thu Apr 18, 2013

Star-Telegram.com

4 bodies found in burned trailer in southern Mont.

Yellowstone County officials on Thursday carried four bodies from a mobile home in southeastern Montana that was destroyed by an early morning fire.

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Related Topix: Fire, Lockwood, MT, Billings, MT