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Suit says state at fault in grizzly mauling... The widow of a hunter mauled by a grizzly bear while he was gutting an elk has filed an appeal with the Montana Supreme Court after a district judge here dismissed her lawsuit against the state. Mary Ann Hilston contends negligent management practices led to the death of her husband...in the fall of 2001. She filed a lawsuit in federal court in September 2004, claiming the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks knew there was an aggressive grizzly bear with two cubs prowling the...

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- The busiest street in Great Falls became a home for roaming buffalo. Three bison broke out of Mickey's Packing Plant on the southern edge of Great Falls Thursday and took to 10th Avenue South, one of the state's busiest thoroughfares. They stopped by a nursing home, ran through a park and visited Giant Springs Heritage Park before being herded into a pasture and shot several hours after the first report of them hitting the town.Diane Moog was on 38th Street when she saw the herd coming at her van."I could not believe my eyes," Moog...

CREDIT: Grant Black, Calgary Herald Ald. Darlene Heatherington A Lethbridge city councillor -- who claimed to have been drugged and abducted in Great Falls and driven to Las Vegas -- staged the elaborate hoax from the beginning, right down to tossing her keys under a rental car and leaving her personal belongings in clear view, authorities told the Herald. "That was clearly an effort to show that something happened to her," said Cascade County Attorney Brant Light. "By her doing that, it would be consistent with someone attacking her from behind and knocking the keys out of her hand,...

<p>PATERSON -- Anti-war protesters said they had come to show support for the city's large Muslim community Saturday, but only a small group of people from the neighborhood joined them.</p> <p>Some Muslims, watching from across the street, said they were suspicious of the protesters' motives. They remembered the backlash against them after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks when radio talk shows spread apparently false rumors that there had been celebrations in Paterson.</p>

<p>PATERSON, N.J. — As the threat of imminent war looms over Iraq, Middle Eastern immigrants and Americans of Middle Eastern heritage in this New Jersey town continue to hope that President Bush can somehow steer clear of using military force.</p>

Mom admits killing son in toss off footbridge She agrees to a term of 18 years in prison Friday, January 24, 2003BY RUDY LARINI Star-Ledger Staff Her family had told her that if she ever needed them to care for her son, they would be there for her. But she didn't turn to them late that Saturday night in June 2000 when she wanted to go out and couldn't find anyone to watch the toddler. So she took him to a footbridge over the Passaic River in Paterson and  tossed him into the water just above the Great Falls. Yesterday,...