Flathead County Sheriff

Flathead County Sheriff's Office took a call Monday afternoon about two men in trouble on the Flathead River near the Old Steel Bridge. They had reportedly swamped their boat and were seen on a small island in the river. Flathead Search and Rescue launched a boat and helped rescue the men and recover their boat. They were reportedly unhurt, but lost a cooler full of fish.

Unwelcome men made appearances throughout the valley. One appeared in a house on Duff Lane. Another wouldn't leave a home on Ridgewood Drive. One was reported at Montana Village. A man who was sleeping in an orange van at Town Pump near Wal-Mart was told to move along, and another unwelcome man there also sent on his way.

At Mike's Conoco in Hungry Horse, four women were seen fighting.

A man has a suspicion about who broke into his home on Vonderheide Lane during the weekend.

There was a child crying, and a man and woman screaming at Pike's Peak, according to a complaint. At Haywire Gulch, the problem was first with loud music and then with the sound of guns being fired.

Deputies tracked down a man whose fiancee was worried about him because he didn't call her back as promised and didn't answer his phone; he was just in a deep sleep, he said.

A 12-year-old girl went to the youth detention center after striking her mother on Shady Lane. A deputy counseled a family on Zimmerman Road about cell-phone use after a family disturbance.

A driver hit and killed a black bear on the Montana 35 bridge over the Flathead River. An animal warden was notified. Horses, deer, and cows were also attracted to pavement in places where vehicles roam.

Three people were hurt, at least one seriously, in a Monday morning vehicle accident near Hungry Horse. Canyon Quick Response Unit and Columbia Falls and Hungry Horse fire departments responded.

In Happy Valley, a resident reported a neighbor coming at him on an all-terrain vehicle.