Law roundup: Trouble bruin in Somers home

Hearing a slamming noise and voices coming from the downstairs about 2 a.m., a woman staying at a relative's home in Somers armed herself with a knife and phoned the Flathead County Sheriff's Office. While waiting for deputies to show up, the woman listened and barred her door as someone — or something — thudded around in the building's lower levels. A moment later she told dispatchers that she had put down the knife. The intruder turned out to be a bear, and it had run off. 

A passerby tried unsuccessfully to collar a tan and white pit bull running around Kalispell and passed the torch to the Sheriff's Office. 

Meanwhile, in Kila, a delivery driver found one dog in distress and another running free. They told dispatchers that there was no food or water in the kennel and the animals, both black Labrador retrievers, looked "extremely underweight."