A man who filed a lawsuit against the Bozeman Police Department in Montana contending two officers used a stun gun without justification and left him with a serious head injury has filed additional motions contending police conspired to cover up …
The state is reporting that workplace injuries and illnesses declined last year in Montana. An annual survey from the Department of Labor and Industry found 5.0 injuries and illnesses per hundred full time workers in 2010. That is down from …
Exxon Mobil said it expects that its response to a July oil spill into the Yellowstone River in Montana will cost about $135 million, the company said Friday. Exxon Mobil said it has reached compensation agreements with over 95 percent …
A Montana judge will allow a fraud complaint to go forward against oil giant BP, but he cautioned that the state has a long way to go to prove its claims. Montana is accusing the British company, its subsidiaries and …
Underground work has been suspended at a central Montana precious metals mine as federal safety inspectors investigate the death of a worker 1,200 feet underground. Stillwater Mining Co. spokesman John Beaudry describes Monday afternoon’s death as an isolated accident. He …
The Montana Supreme Court says the family of a man who was dragged by a cement truck isn’t covered under the vehicle’s insurance policy because he did not technically “occupy” it. Terry Richerson’s widow had asked the Supreme Court to …
Authorities say a skydiver attempting to land in Washington-Grizzly Stadium in Missoula, Mont., as part of planned festivities before a college football game, suffered serious injuries Saturday after he was blown off target and hit a tree and then fell …
The owner of a Bozeman, Mont., straw bale maze that caught fire and burned down says a smaller version of the maze will open Saturday. Dale Mandeville tells the Bozeman Daily Chronicle that he and others salvaged up to a …
A weekend fire destroyed a landmark business in eastern Montana and the owner remains hospitalized after suffering smoke inhalation. Fort Peck’s Gateway Inn Bar and Supper Club, built in 1933, caught fire at about 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Glasgow assistant fire …
A federal judge has ordered settlement talks in a multi-million-dollar dispute over bone castings from three famed tyrannosaurus rex specimens. Attorneys say the case is the first of its kind involving a copyright fight over dinosaur castings _ fossil replicas …