Old Jon King

Early on Sunday morning August 5, Bella the dog disappeared after a horrible tragedy that took the life of 8-year-old Jacob Gamble. The dog belongs to Eli Gamble, Jacob’s 5-year-old little brother.  The Gambles were traveling through Montana to Yellowstone for a family vacation when their red Honda was involved in a fatal head-on collision on I-90. A pickup ... Read More ...

Emergency crews responded to an incident at the DreamSleep Mattress store on South Reserve Street in Missoula around 3 p.m. today (Friday, Aug. 24) in which a woman drove a green Subaru Outback through the front of the store.

At around 3:30 a.m. on August 23, a man lashed out at St. Patrick Hospital workers with a box cutter.

Twelve people are dead and fifty are injured after a murderous shootout in an Aurora, Colorado Movie  theater. Authorities have apprehended a 24-year-old man, James Holmes who is suspected of busting into the theater in full riot gear and firing shots into the crowd. Witness report a strange smell most likely produced by eit ...

According to a Northwest Energy spokeswoman, many circuits lost power in Lolo, Alberton Florence and Missoula due to a violent windstorm. As of 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, two substations were reporting power losses, specifically station #5 that feeds Missoula’s south side (and is reportedly back on-line) and substation #7 that feeds Missoula’s west side. Northwest ...

Bus monitor and grandmother of eight Karen Klein has a job that even Steve Rowe wouldn’t want to do. In the following video Mrs. Klein is harassed by what appears to be three middle school boys (it’s difficult to tell how many children are involved). The boys start by jeering “you’re fat, look at all this flab here” and taunting “she’s so fat she’s fogging up her glasses.” The lady responds by say

Vice president of external relations at The University of Montana Jim Foley has decided to leave his position. The news comes after weeks of confusion from both Foley and The University of Montana as to why Foley stopped functioning as the university’s media point-man.

Currently, one out of every three Americans is obese (or 35.6% to be precise) and the most recent expert projection claims that 42% of the country will be obese by the year 2030. Most of the studies done to track obesity are performed by the Center for Disease Control and are done by calling people and asking them to self report their weight and height. Of course, the whole idea of people accurate

Never heard of the Tacocopter? If you guessed that it is a helicopter that brings tacos you’d be right. Actually, the official advertising calls the Tacocopter a flying robot (I would have loved to see tacobots!) but now we’re just getting into semantics. Designed t ...

The avalanche victim whose body was found near Fish Creek Road yesterday was revealed today to be Mr. Mark Albee (age 42) of Bigfork. Earlier story here. Albee’s body was retrieved from beneath piles of snow and it appears that the avalanche led to his death. KGVO ...

The much contested Jesus statue on top of Big Mountain in Whitefish will stay put for at least another 10 years. The Forest Service recently announced that it will extend the lease for the land on which the statue sits.