A Missoula man, Christopher Colligan, 24, is in the Missoula County Jail on $5,000 bond charged with assault with a weapon after an apparent road rage incident that occurred on Sunday, April 14.
The Missoula Marathon, recently praised by Runner's World magazine as the best marathon in America, may have more security after the fatal bombings Monday afternoon at the Boston Marathon.
Quarterbacks were scrambling, running backs captured in the backfield, and several interceptions highlighted Saturday's annual spring game held this year in Ronan.
With 37% of teens reporting drinking in the past 30 days, 20% reporting binge drinking in the past two weeks, and 8% reporting drinking and driving, alcohol is clearly the drug of choice for Missoula youth.
On Wednesday, The Montana Senate Finance and Claims Committee to table a $180 million dollar state plan to fund building projects on state campuses, including monies for the Montana College project in Missoula.
Rumors are spreading that Missoula County is preparing to oust the American Legion and Missoula Mavericks from Lindborg-Cregg field to build condos on the land. Missoula County Commissioner Jean Curtiss says not a word of those rumors is true.
Kye Alan Sparling, 21, was charged with felony assault on a minor on Wednesday in justice court for beating his 2 year-old son during a visit to Missoula.
University of Montana Police Captain Ben Gladwin received a call on Wednesday afternoon that a man was in the Clark Fork River, and was about to be pulled under a logjam. Gladwin, with security officer TJ Johnson, entered the water and rescued the intoxicated man just as he disappeared under the water.
While interviewing Rich Oschner, owner of Axmen South Firearms in Missoula on Wednesday afternoon, April 10, the FBI's computerized NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System), was down....again.
After a tragic accident that left one man critically injured, and the addition of new light towers at Washington Grizzly stadium, the Silvertip Skydivers will have to meet strict new FAA guidelines, and much higher insurance costs before they can again entertain fans with their pre-game parachute jumps.
The Grizzly breakfast burrito, long the cherished favorite of University of Montana students, has received national attention recently, in the Cooking Channel's "Bracket Battle; Best College Eats" competition, finishing in the final four.
Sometime during the past week, from March 30-April 6, Missoula County Sheriff's Department spokesman Jason Johnson said some one stole a 4 by 6 foot fire danger sign from it's location on Big Flat Road, near O'Brien Creek Road.
