Missing firefighter returns safely

Flathead County Sheriff's deputies ran the roads looking for a Sanders County firefighter who went missing while driving between the Plains camp and the Marion camp on the Chippy Creek Fire on Tuesday evening. He returned the next morning.

An ex-boyfriend broke into a woman's house and assaulted her new friend. The man, who had been drinking, bolted when deputies arrived.

An employee of a grocery store in Evergreen called deputies after he recognized a customer's face from a poster hanging in the store.

Someone wrote a letter to a kid in juvenile detention telling the inmate they were going to break him out of the joint.

Kids were shooting cars with paintballs on Armory Road in Whitefish.

An injured fawn had to be put down in Evergreen.

A passerby saw a man walking down Montana 35 with an open container and using foul language.

Animal wardens are trying to trap a loose dog on Shady Lane.

A man in the Flathead County Detention Center told deputies his ex-wife is forging checks.

Some kids put a bunch of Styrofoam in Foy's Lake. The problem was worked out with the property owner.

Other kids were spotted drinking at the public beach there.

Deputies broke up an argument between a man and his girlfriend on Elk Street in Coram.

They also arrested a 27-year-old man for burglary.

A trailer was stolen from Foothill Road.

A woman tried to stab a man with a pen and then hit him in the groin on Collier Lane. She was arrested.