Cause of outage still a mystery

A power outage centered in southeast Kalispell Saturday afternoon impacted upwards of 4,000 Flathead Electric Cooperative members, communications director Wendy Ostrom Price said Sunday.

Crews went to work and restored power to most in an hour, but in some areas it was closer to two hours. It knocked out traffic lights along the entire southern stretch of U.S. 93 and cut electricity to a wide swath of homes.

The outage, which started about 2:50 p.m., affected service provided through the Green Acres substation, covering most of the south and east side of Kalispell and a couple areas in the west side of town, she said.

The cooperative still was working on the problem Sunday, Ostrom Price said, but had not pinpointed the cause.

Flathead County sheriff's deputies are investigating a burglary at a Hungry Horse huckleberry business, where someone reportedly broke the door between 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 1 a.m. Sunday, pulled down a surveillance camera and smashed a jewelry and knife case. It appeared the intruder came through a ceiling vent.

The brother of a 29-year-old man called the sheriff's office after he found his brother dead of an apparent drug overdose at a home they shared on Stag Lane south of Kalispell Sunday afternoon.

The owner of a trailer court on Montana 35 east of Evergreen found a man dead in a shop there Saturday night. No cause was given.

A girl was hurt and taken to the hospital after a group of nine or 10 kids with knives and bats was reported up a hill from Wood Acres Road by Lakeside.

Deputies kicked out several people spotted at a small cemetery along West Valley Drive Halloween night.

Torn-up grass was left in the wake of a dually extended cab pickup that drove through a lawn by Montana 40 and Dillon Road.

Three rods and a tackle box were stolen from a fisherman's truck while he was fishing on the east side of the new steel bridge Saturday afternoon.

A car reportedly drove over a fire hydrant in Evergreen early Sunday and got stuck.

Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials were called to handle a great horned owl that apparently was struck by a vehicle and found Sunday morning on Montana 206 north of Woody's. Agents also were called to handle a grizzly bear that would not leave a property near Pinnacle on U.S. 2 East.

A stolen four-wheeler was found rolled near the gravel pit at Hungry Horse.

County road department workers will be sent today to clear away a rock slide on the North Fork Road.

Two boys, ages 16 and 17, reportedly ran away from the Alternative Youth Care Facility in south Kalispell Sunday afternoon.

Deputies received 163 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Although Kalispell police determined there had been no physical altercation Saturday night, a man was unwilling to explain how an injury happened when the 27-year-old woman was taken from a home on First Avenue West to the hospital for treatment of a leg injury. They were separated for the night.

A man was arrested early Sunday for possession of dangerous drugs and partner assault after reportedly kicking his girlfriend in the face early Sunday.

On Empire Loop, a woman reported her fiancé came home, started breaking things, punched her in the face and left.

A vehicle hit a pedestrian and left the scene of an Airport Road casino early Sunday, but later the alleged driver was tracked down and arrested for DUI and no insurance.

Police arrested a man for his second DUI Saturday night after he reportedly nearly hit cars head-on.

A big group of what appeared to be 13- and 14-year-olds pounded on doors on Liberty Street, then began to pound on windows and the side of a house after the owner told them to leave Saturday night.

The owner of a stray scooter may have returned to retrieve it from the 10th Avenue West yard it got tossed into Saturday night.

Just after 10:30 p.m. Saturday, five teen boys left a Kalispell grocery store with three flats of eggs. Less than an hour later, a driver said kids were throwing eggs over a fence at passing vehicles by Stillwater Estates. No report on whether the incidents were related.

A fight at a Second Street East bar, then a wait for his mother to pick him up from the police booking room, were some details of a reportedly intoxicated young man's Halloween night.

Brass knuckles were suspected as the weapon that knocked out a son's teeth at a Kalispell theater complex Saturday night, a parent reported.

A dine-and-dash crime left an East Idaho restaurant with an unpaid $38.56 tab.

Officers received 77 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Whitefish police made several arrests but generally had a quieter night than expected for Saturday night Halloween downtown revelry.

Before midnight there was one arrest, when a 25-year-old man was charged with having an open container on Central Avenue.

After-midnight arrests included a 20-year-old woman for being a minor in possession, a 23-year-old woman for DUI at Fourth and Spokane, a 28-year-old man on Central for a county warrant for disorderly conduct and a 25-year-old man for DUI on Spokane. There also were two fights outside Central Avenue bars that ended in arrests - a 31-year-old man for disorderly conduct and a 26-year-old man for assault.

Officers received 53 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Columbia Falls police are investigating a report of a 22-year-old man assaulting his 28-year-old girlfriend in front of a Nucleus Avenue business Saturday night.

Juveniles reportedly threw pumpkins and knocked over mailboxes on Scenic Drive around 1 a.m. Sunday.

Officers received 21 calls for assistance between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

Alarms

The South Kalispell Fire Department advised a possible fire structure on Willow Glen Saturday night was a controlled burn.

Whitefish ambulance met a man driving on U.S. 93 and took him the rest of the way to North Valley Hospital for treatment of extensive bleeding from his head. They also took a reportedly intoxicated woman found unconscious at a Central Avenue bar to the hospital early Sunday.

Three Rivers EMS took a woman from a bar at the junction of U.S. 2 and Montana 40 to the hospital for treatment of a cut on her face early Sunday.