On Tuesday night on the eve of Montana’s special election to fill the seat vacated by Trump-picked secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, GOP candidate Greg Gianforte allegedly assaulted Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs, slamming him to the ground.
True to his personal brand—which I can only describe as “vapid, faux-lumberjack death-bringer”—Donald Trump Jr. was reportedly slaughtering prairie dogs in Montana on Earth Day.
Earlier this week, Sherry Spencer, the mother of white supremacist headline-getter Richard Spencer, said her businesses in the town of Whitefish, Montana, are being targeted because of her son’s beliefs. As one of our readers discovered, Sherry says something slightly different when you try to rent out a vacation…
A man in prison for vandalizing a Montana abortion clinic so badly it had to close is now disputing the amount of restitution he was ordered to pay. In an appeal, Zachary Klundt’s attorney argued that the clinic owner “ had a duty to mitigate her damages” and that it was her “personal choice” to close the clinic.…
Martin Blake’s case originally gained notoriety when he was given no prison time after being convicted on one charge of “felony incest.” It turns out the 12-year-old he admitted to raping is his own daughter, and her mother and grandmother have campaigned to reintegrate him into their community.
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 control…
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 yet…
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…
