Man on motorcycle hits deer in park
A 59-year-old motorcycle rider from Reno, Nev. was taken to Kalispell Regional Medical Center Monday after a 10:15 a.m. collision with a deer about 20 miles up Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park. The man, who was transported by Three Rivers EMS, suffered non-life-threatening injuries to his hip and shoulder. There is no word on what became of the deer, park officials said.
A woman, who had been drinking, was seen crawling through the parking lot of a business on Montana 35 in Bigfork. Flathead County Sheriff's deputies responded and summoned an ambulance, which took the woman to Kalispell Regional Medical Center with a hurt knee.
When a woman opened a dry cleaning business on West Idaho Street Sunday morning, she found $400 missing from the safe.
Deputies responded to Deer Street, where a man involved in an ongoing dispute with a neighbor accused said neighbor of flipping him off.
Cousins yelling at each other on First Street South West were separated.
A laptop computer was stolen from a car on Montana 35 in Bigfork.
Deputies cited a man for assault after he allegedly punched another man outside a bar in Bigfork.
A woman who refused to leave her ex-boyfriend's Rose Crossing residence did, before deputies arrived.
Someone found a burned-out vehicle in the woods near Patrick Creek Road.
A Bootjack Lake Road man requested that deputies remove from his porch a woman, who had been drinking. He didn't want to let her in the house. She left after speaking to an officer.
Graffiti was found on a bridge on U.S. 2 in Evergreen.
Windows were busted out of an excavator on Rogers Lake Road.
Deputies responded to Hungry Horse Reservoir, where a man said another man and his girlfriend beat him up, stole his stuff, and then left him stranded.
Someone started a fire in a urinal at a Bigfork elementary school and then burned through the plastic of a soda machine.
Deputies received 181 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Sunday and 3:30 p.m. Monday.
Kalispell police arrested a 37-year-old man for shoplifting after he tried to steal shaving cream and razor blades from a grocery store on Third Avenue East North. The man was also taken into custody on suspicion of obstructing officers, resisting arrest, and carrying a concealed weapon - he allegedly had an illegal fixed-blade knife on him.
Officers arrested a 25-year-old man on a warrant for traffic violations after he was involved in a crash on Ninth Avenue West.
Two men arguing in front of a Main Street bar were gone when deputies arrived. One man reportedly had a knife.
A man tried to return a lawnmower to a store on U.S. 93 North, but was told he couldn't with gas still in the tank. After getting belligerent with employees, the man reportedly went outside and dumped the gas into the store's flower beds.
Someone stole the American flag off a Sixth Avenue West porch.
The occupants of a pickup truck on Whitefish Stage Road allegedly threw a lighted brick of fire works into the open window of a passing car.
An Eighth Avenue East North woman complained because a man changing his clothes in his car was doing so where her kids could see.
A man reportedly started banging on the door of a West Utah Street home, saying people were trying to kill him. Officers told him to go home.
While investigating reports of a suspicious person outside a Main Street bar, officers arrested a 53-year-old man with an outstanding warrant for assault.
Three girls flagging down cars near a Center Street mall were arrested for curfew violations.
After busting a party on Greendale Court, officers arrested a man for endangering the welfare of children and two girls for possession of alcohol.
Someone tried to knock over a tree at a service club on U.S. 93 South.
Cars were egged on First Avenue East and Second Avenue East.
A West Utah Street man called to tell police his ex-wife may be filing a false report in the coming weeks.
Officers received 68 calls for service between 2:30 p.m. Sunday and 2:30 p.m. Monday.
An iPod was reported stolen from a car on Somers Avenue. Whitefish police are investigating.
Officers arrested a 25-year-old woman for DUI and driving without insurance during a traffic stop on U.S. 93.
A second 25-year-old woman for driving on a suspended license, without insurance, and speeding during a traffic stop on U.S. 93.
Officers received 58 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Sunday and 3:30 p.m. Monday.
A 48-year-old man arrested in Lakeside had a warrant for contempt of court out of Columbia Falls. Columbia Falls police took him into custody.
A car on U.S. 2 was traveling with its four-way flashers on.
A man was injured after a fight on First Avenue East, but refused medical attention.
Officers received 26 calls for service between 3:30 p.m. Sunday and 3:30 p.m. Monday.
Flathead Electric Cooperative responded to several power outages over the holiday weekend, believed to be caused by fireworks. Electrical circuits apparently were tripped when long metal streamers contained in a newer type of firework got into power lines and equipment.
Alarms
The Marion Fire Department was paged out to fires near the south end of Bitterroot Lake and near Lost Prairie Road.
The Whitefish Fire Department responded to a broken gas line on O'Brien Avenue.