Flathead County sheriff's deputies

separated the contentious bunch at a Coram house. It involved four youths, ranging in ages from 8 months to 17 years, playing with the phone, a male yelling and a female screaming, but no weapons in the house. Deputies determined it was only verbal.

A 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of family member assault for hitting his mother early Tuesday. His sister reported the assault on Conn Road, then left with their mom and eventually met with deputies.

Harmony Road did not live up to its name Tuesday morning, when a man pounded on a woman's door there and continued a dispute from the night before. It was feared he could have firearms.

A cold-hearted neighbor shot their dog in the head, came the report from Coram.

Suspected siphoning of gas, and a car alarm sounding off, prompted a call to Valley Motors, but nothing was amiss.

Music should not be so loud at nearly 1 a.m., so a Whitefish Stage Road resident just north of Kalispell called deputies. They told the music lovers to keep it down.

But the resident in Forest Acres reportedly has a police scanner, so the loud bass music was turned off when deputies arrived just after 2 a.m. They will handle it differently next time.

Yelling, shoving and locking himself in the bathroom were some of the behaviors reported on Cobbler Village Road.

First. the motorcycle was stolen from Bayou Road. Then tools came up missing at the same location. The motorcycle was recovered, but the owner thinks the tools were taken at the same time.