BILLINGS, Montana, June 29 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release on June 28, 2023: The Bureau of Land Management Montana/Dakotas State Office today conducted a competitive oil and gas lease sale with bids on 14 parcels covering 5,671.72 acres in North Dakota. The sale brought in $15,027,909. The sales results, environmental assessment, maps, parcel lists, Notice of Competitive Lease Sale and proposed lease stipulations are availabl  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, June 27 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mountain-Plains Regional Information Office issued the following report on June 26, 2023, entitled "Montana Job Openings and Labor Turnover - April 2023": * * * Montana had 41,000 job openings in April 2023, compared to 37,000 openings in March, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Michael Hirniak noted that the job   more

FRESNO, California, June 28 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, Phillip A. Talbert, issued the following news release on June 26, 2023: Ray Brewer, 66, of Porterville, and Sheridan, Montana, was sentenced today to six years and nine months in prison for running a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme where he purported to turn cow manure into green energy, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court records, from March 2014 through December 2019, Brewer s  more

WASHINGTON, June 26 (TNSawa) -- The FBI Salt Lake City Field Office issued the following news release: Acting Special Agent in Charge Cheyvoryea Gibson presented the Fort Peck Tribes' Red Bird Woman Center/Children's Advocacy Center with the 2022 FBI Director's Community Leadership Award (DCLA) during a ceremony on June 22, 2023, in Poplar, Montana. RBWC/CAC is the primary child victim services agency on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in rural northeast Montana, serving all FBI child victims  more

BILLINGS, Montana, June 29 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana, Jesse Laslovich, issued the following news release on June 28, 2023: A Billings cattle rancher who admitted defrauding the Bureau of Land Management of fees in a grazing scheme in which he lied about the ownership and number of cattle he was grazing was sentenced today to four years of probation, fined $35,000 and ordered to pay $143,714 restitution, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said. Gene John Klamert, 71, pleaded g  more

GREAT FALLS, Montana, June 27 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana, Jesse Laslovich, issued the following news release on June 26, 2023: A Browning man suspected of trying to put a federal corrections officer in a chokehold while incarcerated at the Bureau of Indian Affairs' jail on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation admitted to an assault charge today, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said. Joseph Ernest Potts, 32, pleaded guilty to assault on a federal officer as charged in an indictm  more

BILLINGS, Montana, June 28 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana, Jesse Laslovich, issued the following news release on June 27, 2023: A former Hamilton man who admitted to making false statements to receive more than $70,000 in disability payments from the Social Security Administration was sentenced today, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said. Aaron Lee Grossman, 51, of Washington, Utah, and formerly of Hamilton, pleaded guilty in February to false statements to a government agency.  more

GREAT FALLS, Montana, June 28 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana, Jesse Laslovich, issued the following news release on June 27, 2023: A Washington man suspected of trafficking methamphetamine and fentanyl on the Rock Boy's Indian Reservation admitted to a drug crime today, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said. Antonio Penalosa Infante, 36, of Spokane, Washington, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute controlled substances. Infante faces a mandatory minimum of 10 y  more

RAPID CITY, South Dakota, June 29 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota, Alison J. Ramsdell, issued the following news release on June 27, 2023: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken has sentenced a Hardin, Montana, man convicted of three counts of violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. The sentencing took place on June 26, 2023. Harvey Hugs, age 59, was sentenced to three years in federal prison, follow  more