Flathead County sheriff

Flathead County sheriff'd5s deputies charged a man with partner and family-member assault after a day of drinking led to him swinging a machete in a home on Hoffman Draw.

A Taser was deployed twice as deputies tried to stop a boy running from a party on Gordon Avenue. He was wanted on a Columbia Falls warrant, and was charged with being a minor in possession.

A dog owner was cited after three 'd2wolf-looking'd3 dogs entered a yard and injured a Happy Valley resident'd5s dog Saturday.

A man and woman flailing their arms, hollering and kicking construction cones on Montana 35 East prompted a phone call to the sheriff'd5s office.

A woman in a house at some distance from a parked 'd557 Chevy said she could hear the loud music and 'd2ridiculous'd3 swearing, and she and her children were offended by the language. The behavior would stop, deputies assured her.

Kids on bikes grabbing onto bumpers of passing cars in Bigfork got a talking-to Saturday evening.

The dispatcher even could hear the barking dogs, a constant problem reported by several neighbors on Eighth Avenue East, but they couldn'd5t be located when deputies arrived.

Screaming and yelling between a male and female didn'd5t sit well with a neighbor late Saturday. Deputies counseled the verbal fighters.

Two men outside a casino on U.S. 2 East of Kalispell, one with a cane used by blind people and the other acting very drunk or on drugs, bothered customers in the parking lot.