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Butte police blotter: Pistol whipping, public urination, pedestrian assaulted, stolen bike

Assault with weapon Officers responded to a disturbance at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday in the 400 block of West Daly Street. It is alleged Santerrika A. Gilmore, 26, of Butte walked into a residence and struck a woman in the back of the head with a revolver, causing

Ohio man charged with felony after alleged threats to blow up the Helena airport

An Ohio man was charged Thursday with a felony for allegedly threatening to blow up the Helena Regional Airport after getting kicked off a plane for being too intoxicated to fly. Kareem Mashhaad Laws, of Lima, Ohio, was charged Thursday in Lewis and Clark County Justice Court with one count

Costa Rican ex-security minister extradited to US for drug trafficking

Costa Rican ex-security minister extradited to US for drug trafficking

Former Costa Rican security minister Celso Gamboa was extradited on Friday to the United States where he faces drug trafficking charges, authorities in the Central American nation said. The 49-year-old has vowed to implicate officials in the current government in the case. Gamboa, whose many top jobs included

French jihadist jailed for life for Islamic State crimes against Yazidis

French jihadist jailed for life for Islamic State crimes against Yazidis

A French jihadist was sentenced to life in jail on Friday for involvement in Islamic State group atrocities against the Yazidi minority in Iraq and Syria, the first such case in France. Sabri Essid, thought to have been killed in 2018, was found guilty in absentia by a Paris court

Blacktail Health's Child Evaluation Center receives statewide recognition

Blacktail Health’s Butte Child Evaluation Center was honored recently as the 2026 Spring Program Highlight by the Montana Board of Crime Control office in Helena. For 25 years, the Butte center, in partnership with Butte-Silver Bow Law Enforcement, the B-SB County Attorney's Office, and Child

Brazil presidential hopeful Flavio Bolsonaro praises Bukele

Brazil presidential hopeful Flavio Bolsonaro praises Bukele

Brazil's Flavio Bolsonaro, who plans to run for president in October elections, on Thursday called for "many, many prisons" in a speech praising the controversial security policies of El Salvador's Nayib Bukele. The son of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro -- who anointed him

Salvadoran anti-corruption lawyer jailed to 'silence her', husband says

Salvadoran anti-corruption lawyer jailed to 'silence her', husband says

Jailed Salvadoran lawyer Ruth Lopez symbolizes the "decency" and "credible voice" that President Nayib Bukele's government only managed to silence with imprisonment, her husband Louis Benavides told AFP in an interview. Lopez, 48, who headed the anti-corruption unit at the NGO Cristosal, was