Browning man sentenced for murder, kidnapping on Blackfeet Reservation

A Blackfeet Tribal member who admitted to murdering a man and then holding a woman hostage at knifepoint on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation was sentenced Wednesday to 26 years and eight months in prison.

Jason Avery Mattson, 30, of Browning, pleaded guilty on March 30 to second degree murder and to kidnapping as charged in an indictment, according to acting U...