Flathead County Sheriff

Flathead County Sheriff's Office dispatched ALERT helicopter, highway patrol, Smith Valley fire department and Marion ambulance and fire department to an accident two miles from Marion at 2:30 a.m. Sunday, when a driver hit a moose and rolled his vehicle. The driver was taken to the hospital. The moose was taken to the food bank.

On Shady Lane, threats were made over a dog running loose. Ditto, near the Deerlick Saloon.

A house for sale on Van Sant Road was supposed to be empty, but two people used it as an impromptu campground. Same thing on Bierney Creek Road, where a man and woman were found passed out on a couch while the owner was out of town. They were ordered to leave.

Rescuers from Badrock fire department and Columbia Falls ambulance got a workout, searching for a hiker with a broken collar bone on Columbia Mountain trail. When they caught up with him, he said he didn't want medical attention.

A girl reported that an older teen had shown up at her house while her parents were gone and kept hitting her. He left before a deputy arrived. A man was arrested after a woman reported that he pushed her and threatened to choke her.

Sunday was a good day for a couple of kids to put on masks resembling "The Scream" and jump into traffic in Northridge Heights. They were gone when officers went to defuse the drama. There was more jumping into traffic on Big Mountain.

A house was broken into on Pioneer Road.

In Coram, one resident reported someone trying to hook the resident's boat up to a truck and leave with it. Failing that, the land-locked pirate moved on down the street, where other residents complained about a prowler.

A coroner was needed after someone died at Tally Lake Campground, apparently of natural causes.

Disturbances by man and animals abounded.

A man on Blanchard Lake Road reported that a woman broke his nose. There were 30 horses loose on Montana 40 Sunday and more on Lost Creek Road. An assault on Conn Road reportedly followed an eviction.

A deputy caught up with a 4-year-old girl in a yellow dress seen riding her bike on Montana 35 Sunday morning. She was bound for a casino in Kalispell where her mother works. She was returned to her babysitter instead.