Deputies don't find runaway sleigh

Flathead County Sheriff's deputies were unable to locate the pair of black horses reportedly pulling a runaway sleigh on U.S. 93 North.

A Dower Draw resident wanted advice on how to handle the dog that is attacking her livestock.

A spotting scope, a pair of binoculars and an iPod were stolen from a vehicle on Sweetgrass Lane.

A guy made off with two cases of beer from a Bigfork grocery store.

A man in a white sweatshirt kept trying to pick fights with people in an Evergreen parking lot Monday night. He hit a woman in the face, and then ran off.

Two Canadian couples reportedly threatened bar patrons with a gun. When they were thrown out, they sped off in a vehicle. Deputies were unable to locate them.

When she couldn't find her dog at home, a Smith Lake Road resident assumed it had been kidnapped. When deputies arrived, however, the only tracks they could find belonged to the dog.

Sure, he'd already been told to leave. But the bar patron wanted someone to physically remove him from the establishment. He eventually left under his own power.

A Flathead Drive resident didn't know the drenched, barefoot woman who showed up at her door early Tuesday morning, so she called deputies for help. The stranger was taken to the hospital.

At least a dozen mailboxes on Kienas Road were damaged.

Sparkler bombs failed to explode in other mailboxes. The one in the portable toilet on Old School Loop also was a dud.

Someone sliced the valve stems and smeared garbage on a vehicle on Dawn Drive in Columbia Falls.

A woman's married male friend keeps sending her "peculiar items" in the mail. She asked deputies for advice.

Someone kicked in a car door on West Evergreen Drive.

A garbage can went up in flames on Park Avenue.

Deputies arrested a man for partner/family member assault after he was involved in a disturbance on Caroline Road.