Peter Christian

UPDATE: Saturday, January 18, 6:00 a.m.

News partners NBC Montana/KECI reported Friday afternoon, January 17, that a student returned the sword that was stolen from a memorial to the late Chance Geery. The student returned the sword after members of the Missoula City Fire Department spent over a hour in a fruitless search for the sword off the Higgins Street Bridge in the Clarl Fork River. No charges have yet been filed.

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For the first time, the public can get involved in the Missoula city budget process through an interactive activity called the City Budget Game.

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Ravalli County Treasurer Valerie Stamey has been struggling to put her office together after three staffers left, stating she could not do the job. However, Commissioner Suzy Foss said Stamey is on the right track.

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USA Today reports that J.C. Penney will close 33 under performing stores and lay off 2,000 employees. Two of those stores are in Montana.

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Bernard Frank, a transient who listed his home as the streets of Missoula, was charged with felony burglary on Wednesday, January 15, in justice court.

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The United States Supreme Court has refused to consider a lower court ruling against the Montana Firearms Freedom Act, however, the issue has not yet been completely defeated.

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UPDATE 2:00 P.M. Tuesday, January 14

Crews from Northwestern Energy quickly repaired a two-inch gas line that had been ruptured by a crew doing excavation work in a field just off the Eastside Highway in Florence.

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At about 5:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 14, 9-1-1 reported an automatic front door alarm at Murdoch's Ranch and Home Supply on West Broadway in Missoula.

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At about 6 a.m. on Monday, January 13, Missoula County sheriff's deputies were called to assist the Montana Highway Patrol at the Walmart store on Brooks.

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Two of the three suspects in the Thursday, January 9 home invasion robbery on North Avenue appeared Monday, January 13, in Missoula Justice Court via video from the Missoula County jail.

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The term "student-athlete" will have more meaning to recruits and their parents with the completion of the University of Montana's new Athletic Academics Center, now entering its final design phase.

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After nearly five weeks, the company that owns NBC Montana and KECI-TV in Missoula has signed a new contract to provide programming to Dish Network.

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