Charles Connor Clark, 27, of Wolf Point has made a plea of guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury as charged in superseding information. Clark was accused of injuring an infant on the Fort Peck Reservation. Clark faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release. Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris scheduled sentencing for June 16.

Montana’s unemployment rate declined in January to 4.0 percent. Montana’s rate remains lower than the national rate of 6.3 percent in January. After accounting for Montana’s annual benchmarking revisions, January’s unemployment rate fell 0.2 percent over the month. Roosevelt County ranks 42nd in the state with an unemployment rate of 5.7 percent. Mc-Cone County ranks first with a 2.3

Dear Editor: Did you and other taxpayers of Roosevelt County receive a $1,000 stipend that the county commissioners gave to themselves and all county employees on March 2? I have enclosed a copy of a request for information as to the amount the county received through the CARES Act, Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economics Security Act and other information to try and understand how the commissioners

Montana is the only state in the U.S. that has unisex rates for all insurance. A bill in the Legislature seeks to undo that. House Bill 379, sponsored by House Majority Leader Sue Vinton, R-Billings, would allow insurance companies to charge different rates for males and females. The bill passed the House of Representatives 70-28 last month before moving to the Senate Business, Labor and Economic

U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., is cosponsoring the “Protect and Serve Act,” to help protect law enforcement officers by creating federal penalties for individuals who deliberately target local, state, or federal law enforcement officers with violence. “Montana law enforcement officers put their lives on the line every single day to keep our families and communities safe,” said Senator Daines.

The Town Pump Charitable Foundation is offering $1,000 grants to public libraries in Montana to help fund summer youth-reading programs. Libraries can apply now through April 30 at www. townpumpfoundation.com using the Keep Kids Reading application. Grants will be awarded in May 2021. The total grant pool is $60,000. “The Town Pump Charitable Foundation appreciates the critical role

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives began debating the state’s two-year budget on Monday, March 22. Rep. Llew Jones, R-Conrad, is the chair of the House Appropriations Committee and the sponsor of House Bill 2, the main budget bill. “The only job that a Legislature actually has to do is pass a budget,” Jones said during the bill’s first debate in the full House. “In our

The Montana House took up House Bill 2, the main funding bill, on Monday, March 22, and Rep. Frank Smith, D-Poplar, was unhappy with decisions made during the session. Cuts for suicide prevention, prisons and mental health were some of the areas that Smith was most disappointed bout. “Every time, we try to amend it, it gets killed 66-33. The 33 are Democrats,” Smith said. “The whole HB