Kalispell police

Kalispell police got a call just before 6:30 Tuesday, letting them know that a male was heading out for a "gun battle" at a home on the west side of town. He said he was going to open fire on a drug house. Officers kept a close eye on the area after school, but all remained quiet by mid-afternoon.

When checking backgrounds of the bystanders at the scene of Monday evening's robbery at Woodland Qwik Stop, they found a 38-year-old man who had violated his probation terms. He was arrested.

A 27-year-old man was arrested for felony intimidation after he reportedly called a doctor at Northwest Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, saying he wanted his cast removed and letting the doctor know he had a gun in his car. The cast came off and he got charged - and not just for the medical bill.

Was it the Hamburglar who paid for a meal at McDonald's Monday night with a fake $20 bill?

An emergency room worker called police to let them know they had just treated the third bite victim of the same dog earlier in the day. The victim and mother had left the hospital by then, but did talk with the animal warden.

Two-dollar bills and coins turned up missing when Second Street West residents returned from a trip. They planned to work it out with a suspect's parents.

He can't ride that motorcycle on city streets, police told the mother of the 10-year-old boy who was tearing it up Monday night on 10th Avenue West.

A convoy of three large trucks took out a power line by Smith Lake. The trucks rerouted and Flathead Electric fixed the line.

Harassing calls and text messages made life unpleasant for one person in the city.

The animal warden is looking into the welfare of a pooch at Three Mile Drive and Hawthorn kept sitting in a cage on top of patio stones that may get hot with the summer heat.