Suspected suicide investigated
The Flathead County Sheriff's Office sent detectives Tuesday to a room at the Crooked Tree Motel and RV Park in Hungry Horse when a woman died of a gunshot wound. Preliminary investigation showed that it was probably self inflicted.
The Sun Dog forest fire flared up Monday afternoon. There is a fire line around the blaze, and officials said it probably will keep burning until snow snuffs it out.
A deputy went Monday night to Hungry Horse when a black bear was reportedly injured. A game warden said the deputy should use his own discretion and put the bear down if it was badly hurt. The bear already was dead, and the deputy didn't want to leave it there, so he took it home until a warden could go and pick it up.
Oil and water didn't mix in the Bigfork Bay Monday. The petroleum reportedly leaked from a boat.
An aggressive pit bull was reported on South Hilltop. In Hungry Horse, a dog attacked a cat and then turned his teeth on a nearby man. Someone decided a feral cat was too much work and surrendered it to the animal shelter.
On Shelter Valley Drive, residents reportedly were upset about someone's driving and threw a big rock at a vehicle. The rock missed, but the curses hit their mark.
Two groups of children and a butcher knife presented a potential problem Monday evening at Lakeside Elementary School.
A woman reported that her ex-step-father keeps calling and harassing her.
Officers couldn't find the fight that was reported off Bierney Creek Road.
A deputy who went to investigate why someone was screaming for help at Blimpie found a boy who was crying because he wanted a cookie.
Also misunderstood were two men at Mountain Villa Apartments who knocked and then reportedly tried doors on apartments where no one answered. They were passing out Christian literature.
A man's strange behavior at the intersection of Montana highways 83 and 35 attracted law enforcement. So did a couple's dispute on Burns Street in Somers. Road rage was reported on Montana 83, but no one was hurt. A dispute between neighbors on Kila Road is over a survey. At the National Guard Armory, a man had a lot to say, and loudly, about satellites overhead.
A window was broken on Stoner Creek Drive.
An employer who loaned a dump truck to a worker would like to get it back.
Threats ensued when a woman told a customer to leave a bar.
There was an epidemic of injured deer, including three reports within five minutes. A caller reported that a fawn freed itself from a plastic carton that was stuck on its head Monday at Echo Lake.
No one was hurt when a vehicle hit a pylon in Evergreen; the Evergreen Fire Department went, just in case. There was no house fire on Lion Mountain, despite a report.
Two vehicles were vandalized on U.S. 93 South, and someone spray-painted a Ford Explorer on Lane Street near Columbia Falls.
The theft of 140 gallons of fuel was reported on Truck Route. A leaf blower and a chop saw are no longer where they were on Auction Road. Tools vanished from a job site on Lower Valley Road.