an intruder with muddy shoes helped himself to about $40, according to a complaint with the Flathead County Sheriff's Office.

While a man was gone from his home on Stafford Street and his son was in the shower,

Family problems were reported on Conrad Drive, where siblings didn't get along, and in Hungry Horse, where a man wanted his grandsons removed. Parents on East Evergreen Drive reported a 12-year-old boy wouldn't pick up his things and broke some items. A woman asked for help with her mother-in-law who calls and threatens to beat her up for leaving her son. On Frontage Road, a man tried to break a window; some people beat up a car and then there was a fight inside about a baby.

On Browns Meadow Road, a bad dog wouldn't let people out of their home. There were two calls about cattle in the road on U.S. 93 south of town; a short time later, one less cow was standing. A man complained about a bear that tears down a decoration and also took the door off a shed on Brosten Lane.

A woman called to say she was being held against her will in the basement of the Bigfork Fire Hall. The call came from a nursing home, though. Officers checked the fire hall just to be sure.

Just about every night between 9 and midnight, a tall man in an Elmer Fudd hat shows up in yards along Mackenzie Lane, where residents wonder what he's doing.

Shooting in the dark in an area with homes, such as South Cedar Drive, is not safe.

Money is missing from a dresser drawer on North Juniper Pay Road.

A man in a silver sports car with Wisconsin plates tried to get a woman to pull over and then exposed himself to her near Columbia Falls.

A boy in Hungry Horse was seen tearing up Christmas cards addressed to England.

A tree fell across a train trestle on Nicholson Drive.

Information was sent nationwide about a man who was to move to Ohio from the Flathead, but never arrived.

Hay, stop stealing horse feed that isn't yours on Hilltop Drive.