Fatality

LIVINGSTON, Mont. (AP) — Authorities say a 74-year-old Texas man has been found dead in a river in southern Montana. Park County Undersheriff Clay Herbst says the man was reported missing Wednesday night, and searchers used dogs and a helicopter equipped with an infrared system to comb the area...

The fire has been ruled accidental.

This past week saw a disturbingly high number of roadway fatalities across the State of Montana, as winter weather made Thanksgiving driving conditions more hazardous.

Glacier National Park officials are reporting that boy has died after a tragic fall that occurred near the Going-to-the-Sun Road.

Q2 reports that the woman who was killed in a vehicle crash near Crow Agency on Saturday has been identified as 33-year-old Felicia Dawes. The Crow Agency woman died in a vehicle accident that left two other women injured. The Montana Highway Patrol was on scene, however they were unable to determine which of the three women in the car was driving at the time of the crash...

A man is dead after his vehicle collided with a semi-truck Saturday, according to Montana Highway Patrol. Q2 reports the as yet unidentified man was driving a Dodge Caravan and attempted to pass another vehicle westbound along U.S. Highway 212...

The Gazette reports the Yellowstone County Coroner’s Office has identified the man who died Saturday night in Billings after the car he was driving crashed into a power pole. 36-year-old August Siek died after sustaining multiple blunt force injuries, according to Deputy Coroner R...

The Gazette reports that prosecutors have declined to press charges in the shooting death of a Billings man in 2015, saying a jury would likely find the suspect’s self-defense claim credible. The decision not to file charges was outlined in a letter from Senior Deputy County Attorney Julie Patten and Deputy Chief County Attorney Ed Zink to Captain Jeremy House of the Billings Police Department...

The Missoula County Sheriff and Coroner TJ McDermott is releasing the name of the firefighter who died Wednesday afternoon working on the Lolo Peak Fire as Brent M. Witham, 29, of Mentone, California.

A Ford truck crashed into a West End residence and the driver died on Tuesday afternoon.  The elderly man, who apparently suffered a medical problem as he was driving on 30th Street West, was unconscious after the collision with the garage and fence and was transported by ambulance to the hospital...