A Montana man who had two warrants out for his arrest could not resist the temptation of “liking” his own wanted poster on Facebook. Could we really blame him? He was obviously seduced by the image of his own mug staring back at him causing his trigger finger to go straight towards it like a magnet. 23-year-old Levi…
Some good news, for once: Montana Governor Steve Bullock, a Democrat, has vetoed a bill that would have outlawed telemedicine abortions in the state. In his veto message, Bullock said the bill was counterproductive for the state: “As elected officials, we should all be working together to expand access to health-care…
There's a man in Montana imbued with more power than he should have who doesn't like yoga pants. He doesn't like them so much that he wants to make wearing them in public worthy of a large fine and a trip to jail.
Dark clouds formed over Billings, Montana. They eclipsed the moon and the darkest of dark night closed in. Witches cackled, black cats howled, and lighting struck. And then it happened. The most terrifying event in the universe. A woman gave birth to unassisted identical triplets.
File this under "most implausible defenses you've ever heard": A Montana man alleges that he wasn't taping his ex by hiding a camera underneath her shower's soap tray; he was using it to record chickens he had been washing. You know, because chickens are shy.
In 2007, a teacher named Stacey Rambold was convicted in Montana for raping Cherice Moralez, a 14-year-old student, who later committed suicide. In a sentencing decision that sparked outrage throughout the country, District Judge G. Todd Baugh imposed a ridiculously light sentence on Rambold for the crime. Baugh said…
You probably remember (and wish you could forget) the judge who sent a 47-year-old teacher to jail for a mere 30 days, even after he pled guilty to "sex without consent" with a 14-year-old student who later killed herself. Judge Todd Baugh said the victim was "older than her chronological age" and explained this…
In a move towards sanity and hopefully justice, a court in Montana today overturned the original 30-day sentence for a teacher convicted of raping a 14-year-old student.
Despite intervention from the Department of Justice (or perhaps because of), the debate over the handling of sexual assault cases in Missoula County, Montana is still highly contentious. The Missoula County Attorney's office, led by Fred Van Valkenburg, said last week that they'd fight demands that the office make…
30 days ago, convicted rapist Stacey Rambold went to prison, as convicted rapists should. Today, he's out, because a judge decided that repeatedly raping your troubled 14-year-old student — she later killed herself — isn't that big a deal if she seemed "older than her chronological age" and thus was totally in…
Some news from Missoula: awful Police Chief (of denial) Mark Muir is handing over his daily responsibilities so he can focus on the city’s response to the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into the department's gender bias. Although Muir still refuses to admit that the department was ever shitty at handling…
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Missoula Police Department have reached an agreement that the cops will stop being so horrible to rape survivors, starting with actually acknowledging that they might have been raped.
A year ago, the Department of Justice and the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights launched an investigation into the handling of sexual assault allegations at the University of Montana, then under fire for a spate of highly-publicized alleged rapes. Today, the feds and the college reached a positive…
Better embarrassingly late than never, right? Um, RIGHT? Montana has officially decriminalized gay sex.
If you thought Mitt Romney had a terrible sense of humor, just wait until you hear what truly unfunny shit his Republican compatriots in Montana did this weekend. During the Montana GOP convention—which, by the way, featured Newt Gingrich as its keynote speaker—some "clever" tricksters erected an outhouse outside of…
A lot has happened in Missoula, Montana since our story on the Federal Department of Justice's investigation into the handling of sexual assault allegations by the Missoula Police Department, the County Attorney's Office, and the University of Montana. Here's a roundup:
"It's the altitude," the sweaty, red-cheeked fraternity brother explains. It is my first night in Missoula, Montana, and I am sitting on a stool at Stockman's Bar, watching girls in rhinestoned crop tops and boys in baggy jeans grind up on each other, pound tequila shots, and prowl around before pairing off and…
What the hell is going on in Missoula, Montana? The U.S. Justice Department reports over 80 alleged rapes in Missoula over the last three years. Even more troubling, at least 11 in an 18 month period involved University of Montana students. It's pretty crazy that it took nearly one hundred allegations of sexual…
Is your house or apartment feeling a bit cramped, but you can't afford to buy a bigger one in a neighborhood you like? Well, why not consider buying yourself an entire town. There happen to be a few for sale that offer plenty of space to spread out, if not a lot of neighbors to hang out with. For instance, Buford,…
Judges are primarily known for one thing: their good judgment. But that is the opposite of what Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull used when he decided to send an email to six of his "'old buddies' and acquaintances" containing an exceedingly racist joke about President Obama. Oh, and he sent it from his…
