One wacky Valentine's Day gift

Maybe it was an early Valentine's Day present for the Kila addressee, but the U.S. Postal Service worker still wanted police to come pick up the marijuana contained in an opened envelope.

Kalispell police arrested a 30-year-old man for partner/family member assault after a disturbance on Liberty Street.

Police provided a safety escort for a truck with severely smoking rear brakes, all the way from the Fish and Game office to Les Schwab Tire.

Despite the employee's best efforts, the girl who had just shoplifted merchandise from JC Penney would not come back into the store. So the store called the authorities.

Someone was concerned about the man slumped over his steering wheel, with a six-pack on the seat. When police came, he was arrested on an outstanding warrant.

A city snowplow clipped a residential fence.

An employer refusing to hand over her paycheck was not a law-enforcement matter, police told her. But the outstanding warrant for failure to appear on a misdemeanor tobacco charge was.