Big response to storage fire

Flathead County Sheriff's Office dispatched Badrock and Columbia Falls fire departments to a fire at a storage-unit business on Hellman Lane. The fire-investigation team and sheriff's detectives were called to investigate.

Two men said they were assaulted behind El Topo restaurant near Bigfork at about 2 a.m. Tuesday. They didn't want medical attention. There are suspects.

Someone pulled a pin that caused cars of a train to disconnect, but the train crew didn't believe it was done with malice. No one was hurt and there was no damage.

Why did the chickens cross the road south of Kalispell? Because dogs were chasing them.

A man who lives alone called his residence in Kila and someone answered the phone. Deputies found nothing amiss there. On Country Way, a resident found his garage door and his truck wide open Tuesday morning; that's not the condition in which he left them Monday night.

There is a suspect in the theft of a half case of apples at Haugen Heights.

Someone who feared he had left his coffee pot on called to see if an officer would go turn it off.

A resident on Columbia Falls Stage Road called to report someone pounding on his door. The pounder turned out to be a deputy who wanted to talk to the man.

A woman on Blanchard Lake Road was afraid that intruders had been in her house.

A window was broken in a home on Lakehills Drive.

Officers are investigating a man's report that he found a human skull on an island in the Flathead River over the weekend. He brought it in to show deputies.