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A Flathead County Sheriff’s deputy responded to a Van Sant Road home after receiving a report of five children under the age of 12 unattended in the home playing with a handgun. While the deputy was on the way, one of the children — an 11-year-old girl — put the gun on top of the refrigerator and out of reach of the others.

A sibling rivalry exploded when a woman smashed her sister’s vehicle windshield with a hammer after catching her sister with an ex-boyfriend on Bierney Creek Road in Lakeside.

The caretaker of a Lower Valley Road property was advised to cover the carcass of a llama that died in the field Sunday so people would stop calling it in. The caretaker was waiting for the animal to be picked up for disposal.

A dog was shot and killed on Ferndale Drive in Bigfork, possibly by a neighbor who believed the dog killed his chickens.

A drunken, irate employee of a U.S. 2 East business in Kalispell was persuaded by another employee to follow his better judgment and not drive off in a work rig.

A Tanager Way woman in Bigfork reported someone broke into her bedroom and stole her pain medication. She suspected a renter who is currently on probation.

A thief, apparently desperately wanting to get some handyman work done, used bolt cutters to cut the locks on a Columbia Falls Stage property and stole several tools.

A woman was arrested on an extraditable warrant out of Idaho after a deputy stopped the vehicle she and her husband were living in.

A drunken former employee of a Vista Lane business in Bigfork keeps returning to the property and making a scene.

Kalispell Police officers arrested a woman after she used a fast-food restaurant drive-thru and an employee reported she and another adult in the vehicle looked stoned or drunk. A 1-year-old girl and a 5-year-old girl who were in the vehicle with the woman were turned over to their parents.

A pair of would-be snipers were reportedly sitting in the center of a roundabout shooting some type of gun at a street sign.

An upset 17-year-old boy punched a telephone pole on North Main Street after being fired from his job at a nearby fast-food restaurant.

A Whitefish Police officer was briefly put on baby-sitting duty when a 2-year-old boy was reportedly running across the highway at Edgewood Place. It turned out the tot had escaped through the window of his home and run off. The mother showed up while the officer was on scene.

A Waverly Place homeowner was advised how to properly approach people with his issues after he was reported as screaming profanities.

A Dogwood Avenue resident got more than he bargained for after responding to an ad for a puppy, when the person with the puppy left a message for his wife about “wanting a good time.”

A woman was sent on her way after being warned for urinating on the sidewalk along Baker Avenue.

An empty car stuck on the railroad tracks was struck by a train early Thursday morning, drawing a response from the Columbia Falls Police Department. The owner reported the vehicle had become stuck on the tracks due to his swerving to avoid hitting a deer. BNSF held up its other trains on that track while the vehicle was removed.

The resident of a Ninth Street West trailer court reported someone was shooting at the window, which now had four holes in it, possibly from a BB gun.

A pair of pugnacious pugs were running loose on 13th Street West.