BOZEMAN (AP) – Casey Durham made a fade-away jumper with three seconds left to lead Montana State to an 86-84 victory against Boise State on Friday night. Anthony Thomas’ field goal with 16 seconds left brought Boise State to within a point at 84-83. He was fouled on the shot and injured. Tyler Tiedeman shot […]

HELENA (AP) – Capital High School won its ninth state football title and its second in a row Friday night as the Bruins defeated Billings Senior 30-27 for the Class AA state championship. The Bruins trailed 20-10 midway through the third quarter when defensive back Joe Andriolo intercepted a pass by Senior’s A.J. Paine at […]

BILLINGS (AP) – Democrat Bill Kennedy, citing personal health reasons, says he will not be a candidate for the U.S. House in 2008. Kennedy said a recent health concern forced him to reconsider his challenge to Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg in next year’s congressional election. Montana has one member in the U.S. House. Kennedy announced […]

BOZEMAN (AP) – Lex Hilliard rushed for 181 yards and three touchdowns Saturday and Montana capped an unbeaten season with a 41-20 victory over rival Montana State. Cole Bergquist passed for 274 yards and two touchdowns to Eric Allen while Dan Carpenter kicked two field goals and set an FCS scoring record for kickers in […]

HELENA (AP) – The No. 2 Carroll College Saints are back to the quarterfinals of the NAIA playoffs after defeating No. 16 Black Hills State 34-0 in a first-round game Saturday. Carroll senior quarterback John Barnett connected on 19 of 35 passes for 214 yards and two touchdowns. Senior Travis Browne had eight catches and […]

Just above the Mexican border in Yuma, Ariz., a crowd of sports fans decked out in Grizzly maroon and Bobcat blue and gold will pile into Famous Sam’s bar on Saturday morning to watch, as both comrades and rivals, what they know as the “big game.” Nearly 4,000 miles north at the Peanut Farm in […]

The Kalispell Police and Flathead County Sheriff’s reports for Thursday and Friday morning included the following: 9:25 a.m. When a woman opened the door to her business she was attacked by an intruder who had been hiding behind it. The man hit her over the head and bruised her shoulder. The six-foot tall man who […]

Good morning and happy day of National Rebirth to our Estonian readers. On the Beacon this morning, Myers Reece catalogs the varied and rowdy satellite parties across the Unites States gearing up for MSU Cats v. UM Griz this weekend. Wildlife expert Jack Hanna takes your questions on prime Flathead hiking trails and ways to […]

BOZEMAN (AP) – The University of Montana football team can take an unblemished record into the FCS playoffs with a win over rival Montana State Saturday, while a win by the Bobcats would simply make their season. “Really, it’s funny,” said MSU linebacker Will Claggett. “You could go 0-10 and if you beat the Griz, […]

Alyssa Fierro embraces the home-court advantage. “I love playing in front of my home crowd,” said the three-year basketball and volleyball starter. “It’s one of the best feelings in the world. You have all that intensity around you and you know it’s all for your team.” And the Fierro crows support is uproarious. When the […]

Please allow me to address a couple of issues where I don’t think the whole story is being told, including in the article Ms. Keriann Lynch wrote about American Dream Montana (in the Nov. 7 Flathead Beacon). I have never been inclined to respond to American (nightmare) Dream’s full-page advertisements, but the one that the […]

HELENA – The presidential front-runners are not faring as well in Montana, where a new poll shows the state has its own favorites among the field of candidates. Among three of the top Republicans, Sen. John McCain has the highest favorable rating at 49 percent. And among the top Democrats, Sen. Barack Obama has the […]

HELENA (AP) – Gov. Brian Schweitzer says sports fans like himself have to accept some responsibility for the criminal troubles in sports programs at the state’s top two universities. Schweitzer, a Montana State University alum and Bobcat fan for years, said Friday that the programs were driven to recruit good athletes over good students amid […]

“Everybody gives me dragonflies,” Marilyn Bacon says eyeing her shops south facing windows with their dragonfly stickers, sun catchers, and figurines. Bacon’s business is “Dragonfly Stitches,” and the namesake sits by five Singer sewing machines, perches next to patterns and projects and hovers over reams of leather. Bacon started sewing when she was about 10. […]

Live Music: Friday: Can’t Hardly Playboys at Red’s; Benefit Concert at FVCC; Silver’s Platter at The Cottage; Badwater Bill at Scotty’s; Andre Floyd the Blue Canyon; Good Wood Trio at Raleigh’s; Kniption Fit at the Northern Saturday: John Dunnigan at The Lodge at Whitefish Lake, Alison Brown Quartet at the O”Shaughnessy Center; Mobile Beat DJ […]