Yellowstone County News

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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