Rangers rescue river rafters
Glacier National Park rangers rescued two people from the Middle Fork of the Flathead River Monday afternoon after their raft flipped between the new and old bridges at West Glacier. A call for help came in to the Flathead County Sheriff's Office about 2 p.m. on Memorial Day, but park officials said rangers had the two boaters out of the water and into an ambulance for a ride to the raft company before sheriff's deputies could arrive. Other than being cold, the two people were fine, the sheriff's office said. No information was available on their ages or what caused the raft to overturn.
Bears continued to send people to their phones, with sightings in the Somers area off Treweek Road and by the White Oak, and another one at the Reserve Drive entrance to a building supply store Sunday night. It ambled off harmlessly toward a car lot across the street, but Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials still were called.
Kalispell police said a woman in a car and a man in a truck were trying to beat each other up and break each others' windows on Seventh Avenue East Sunday evening.
Officers arrested an 18-year-old man for shoplifting from a store in the mall.
A vehicle was not driven properly around Courthouse Loop Sunday. It was stopped.
Water Department workers went to fix a broken valve on a water main at Pintail Court.
Police are keeping an eye on a Salem Street home, after the resident reported missing and damaged window screens.
An open sunroof is the suspected point of entry for a thief who took several items from a car in a big box store parking lot Sunday.
Two commotions at a the same convenience store business captured police attention around midnight - once when a man all in white looked as if he were prying open a window and again when a man left without paying for beer.
A charitable thrift store reportedly lost a couch and other furniture to thieves.
The person who lost a laptop computer from a residence on Third Avenue East has a suspect.
Tools and other supplies were reported stolen from a construction trailer at Silverbrook Estates.
Bikes went missing from yards on Sixth Avenue West and Third Avenue West.
First a man was passed out on a homeowner's Fourth Avenue West lawn, then was vomiting on said lawn Monday afternoon. A few blocks up the street, police talked to another resident about loud music.
The door was open but nobody was tending the shop at a car dealership on Memorial Day.
Police reminded a father about the proper use of four-wheelers on a city street, then talked to his children about safer biking practices after somebody reported concerns about their riding on East Nicklaus.
Why would somebody walk up to a woman in a box store parking lot and ask if she wanted to sample perfumes? She couldn't come up with a reasonable answer, so she called the Flathead County Sheriff's Office.
People in a vehicle parked along Spotted Bear Road outside Martin City apparently were not poaching deer as feared Sunday evening.
Deputies handled a number of calls about verbal assaults, none of which turned physical. Most involved alcohol, the sheriff's office said.
The sheriff's office logged 132 entries from 3:30 p.m. Sunday to 3:30 p.m. Monday.
Columbia Falls police arrested a 17-year-old girl for being a minor in possession of alcohol at 4 a.m. Monday on Railroad Street.
Police logged 17 entries from 3:30 p.m. Sunday to 3:30 p.m. Monday.
Whitefish police arrested eight young people at a loud party in an apartment building on Lupfer Avenue around 10:30 p.m. Sunday. Two 18-year-old men and a 19-year-old man, as well as four boys and one girl, were charged with being minors in possession of alcohol after police checked into a complaint about many people coming and going to the noisy party.
An expired registration caught police attention, but the traffic stop resulted in a 26-year-old man being jailed on a warrant and for having no insurance, as well as the lapsed registration. A 20-year-old woman who came to the station a half-hour later to pick up the truck keys was arrested for her own outstanding warrant.
A 31-year-old woman was arrested for DUI a few minutes before 8 a.m. Monday at Baker and 10th Street. At the same time, she was arrested for operating without insurance and for negligent endangerment of the 9-year-old girl in the car with her.
Police logged 33 entries from 3:30 p.m. Sunday to 3:30 p.m. Monday.
Alarms
Whitefish ambulance went to the Whitefish High School football field a little before midnight Sunday, where a 16-year-old girl broke her leg after sliding down a pole and hitting the ground too hard. A guy with her was not injured, but she was taken to the hospital.