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Four overturned rafters rescued

| July 24, 2011 2:00 AM

ALERT helicopter, Three Rivers EMS, Canyon QRU, local search and rescue crews and others were called Saturday evening when people were heard yelling for help from the Middle Fork River near the Glacier View Golf Course in West Glacier. Four people had fallen into the river when their raft overturned; all four were rescued.

An ambulance was paged to Wild Turkey Lane Friday evening for a 19-year-old man with severe lower back pain after falling from a moving vehicle.

One person sustained a minor injury in a three-vehicle fender bender at the intersection of West Reserve Drive and Whitefish Stage Road at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday.

ALERT helicopter was paged Saturday afternoon after a woman fell from a horse and hit her head in Olney.

Three Rivers EMS was paged to Glacier National Park after a motorcycle accident was reported on Going-to-the-Sun Road near Logan Creek at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday.

A man reportedly dislocated his knee in a motorcycle accident Saturday evening on McCaffery Road in Bigfork.

A group of 12 to 13 young people breaking bottles in the Lawrence Park parking lot were reported to Kalispell police as suspicious. According to the caller, there were also beer cans in the area.

Anyone missing an American Express card might want to check with the police department; a credit card was turned in Friday evening.

Despite being told to stop, a neighbor girl continues to harass the daughter of an exasperated parent on Fifth Avenue East who called police Friday.

Someone broke into a camper on First Avenue West by removing its front window.

A woman called to report someone else’s vehicle may have been stolen.

A caller told police she has heard twice from a woman who claims to have witnessed a man choking his girlfriend and a man doing drugs. The caller asked an officer to listen to one of the calls, which she saved on her answering machine.

A missing 8-year-old was reunited with his grandmother on Seventh Street West Friday night.

A man refused to leave after being kicked out of a bar on U.S. 93 South.

The neighbors’ radio is always on and is too loud, according to a complaint from a man on Third Avenue West.

The adults partying in a hotel room on U.S. 93 South were asked to turn it down at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday.

The kid dressed in black whom she’d seen riding the bike minutes earlier was nowhere to be found when a Third Avenue West resident found the abandoned bicycle on the curb in front of her house early Saturday morning. The caller believed the bike may have been stolen.

A Bigfork resident called police to report he’d been assaulted by a bouncer while trying to help break up a fight at a bar on Woodland Park Drive.

A Second Street West resident suspected her roommate’s girlfriend was the thief who took her iPod Touch.

Vandals scratched a car and broke off its windshield wiper on Appleway Drive, according to the owner who reported Saturday that the vandalism has been going on for the last week. The windshield wiper may have been used in an unsuccessful attempt to break into a neighbor’s car.

A caller reported being flashed by a man in a champagne-colored Toyota car.

Accused shoplifters weren’t cooperative after they were caught, according a report from a business on U.S. 93 South.

A Mountain Vista Way resident lost money in a phone and email scam.

The man lying in the grass at the intersection of East Railroad Street and First Avenue was just taking a nap, not passed out as a caller feared.

Whitefish police took a walk-in report of theft and another from U.S. 93 South.