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Candidate Deadline
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HAVRE, Mont (NMB) Time is running out for candidates to file for the various public office positions up for election. Darla Dahl, Hill County Clerk and Recorder says the final day to file for the primary is March 15th "at 5 O'clock and you would do that in the Clerk and Recorders office. She added that the permanent absentee forms have been mailed out "and we have about 10% that have not come back to us yet." She said "if anyone on that list would like to receive their ballot automatically for the June primary they need to get that form back to our office as soon as they can." The close of regular registration is May 10th.
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Havre man dies in ND oil field
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BEACH, N.D. (NMB) _ A Havre man has died after a 250-pound steel pipe fell on his head while he worked in a North Dakota oil field. Christopher Whalen was part of a crew that was digging access holes for seismograph lines when he was hit by the pipe on Friday and died the next day at a Bismark hospital. It is unclear what caused the pipe to fall. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating.
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Montana lawsuit challenges corporate political ban
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HELENA, Mont. (NMB) Western Tradition Partnership, a conservative group, filed a lawsuit to overturn Montana's ban on corporate political advocacy.
The challenge comes in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision paving the way for more corporate financing in elections.
The Denver-based group says it's joined in the lawsuit by Champion Painting of Bozeman, a corporation that would like to get involved politically.
Montana state law bans corporate political contributions or expenditures.
The lawsuit only challenges the ban on expenditures, such as by running an independent television advertisement.
It does not challenge the ban on direct contributions to candidates.
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Schweitzer and other governors say states should regulate co
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HELENA, Mont. (NMB) Governors of Western states are letting the Obama administration know that regulation of coal ash waste should be done on the state level.
The Western Governor's Association is resisting a move by the Environmental Protection Agency to reclassify coal ash as hazardous.
The EPA delayed that decision late last year. Doing so would limit where it could be sent for disposal.
Association chairman Gov. Brian Schweitzer says the EPA move would undercut what he described as effective regulation by Western states.
The governors say the reclassification would prevent the materials' use in road construction and other purposes.
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert says coal-fired electric generation in the West would also be hurt, which would cost ratepayers more money.
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Snow geese arriving at Freezeout
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GREAT FALLS, Mont. (NMB) The geese have arrived at Freezout Lake in north-central Montana. The few thousand geese are on their way to their nesting grounds in Canada.
Freezeout Lake Wildlife Management Area manager Mark Schlepp says there were between 5,000 and 10,000 snow geese in the fields around Freezeout Lake on Monday.
Typically, tens of thousands of the birds make a stop at Freezeout to rest from their flight from their wintering grounds in California, before heading further north.
Freezeout Lake is between Fairfield and Choteau along U.S. Highway 89.
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Fatal Vehicle Accident
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HAVRE, Mont (NMB) The Montana Highway Patrol says a Hays man died and two women were injured in a collision between a passenger car and a tractor on Highway 2. Officials say the collision occurred Friday when the westbound Pontiac Grand Prix tried to pass the westbound tractor as the tractor turned left. The Blaine County coroner says the 67-year-old passenger in the Pontiac was declared dead at the scene. Police say he was not wearing a seat belt. They added that a 37-year-old woman and a 63 year old woman in the car were also injured was taken to Northern Montana Hospital. The crash remains under investigation.
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