U.S. Senator Jon Tester is backing the bipartisan Human Trafficking and Exploitation Prevention Training Act to create a grant program to help non-profit organizations and schools train teachers, students, staff and parents to recognize, respond to, and prevent human trafficking. “Human trafficking is an often-overlooked crisis, and in order to fight it, we need folks in our communities to know

oster ( Publisher’s Note: Each week, the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Office distributes an inmate roster with the names of everyone incarcerated and persons booked into the jail during the previous week and does not necessarily mean there is a new charge or conviction.) As of March 2, 118 prisoners were housed in the Roosevelt County Detention Center. Prisoners included: Matthew Wayne Alred,

This year, the Roosevelt County DUI Task Force is offering up a scholarship of $500 to any high school senior graduating in 2020 from a school within the boundaries of Roosevelt County. The focus of this year’s scholarship is to write an essay on how the student chooses to live above the influence of alcohol use, drug use, peer pressure, bullying or any other negative influences around them.

Election administrators from three Montana counties told lawmakers Thursday that a voter-passed referendum that limits who can drop off a person’s absentee ballot is frustrating electors, suppressing votes and is easily bypassed. The Ballot Interference Prevention Act requires election clerks to ask anyone who drops off a ballot if they’re dropping off someone else’s ballot and, if so,

The Roosevelt County commissioners held their regular meeting Tuesday, Feb. 18. Commissioners Gordon Oelkers, Duane Nygaard and Gary Macdonald were in attendance. Donna Reum took notes for meeting minutes. Minutes were accepted for the month of January and the Jan. 28 regular meeting. The commissioners approved the purchase of a new mass callout/ reverse 911 system for the Fort Peck Tribes/Roosevelt

David Joseph “Joey” Cord, 25, was sentenced in Roosevelt County District Court in Wolf Point Feb. 12 after a jury found him guilty of sexual assault on Sept. 13, 2019. Cord was found not guilty of sexual intercourse without consent. According to charging documents, Cord was observed coming down the stairs at the victim’s home in Culbertson on Sept. 21, 2018, with no pants on, holding his