Double Murder

20 year-old Preston Rossbach was sentenced on Friday for his role in the deaths of two people and the stabbing of a third victim.

25 year-old Logan Christopher will spend at least the next 35 years in prison when he is sentenced in Ravalli County District Court for two counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and felony criminal endangerment.

A 25 year-old Stevensville man, Logan Alexander, is in jail on $2 million bond, accused to shooting his mother and his girlfriend to death and wounding his father.

On Friday, Missoula District Court Judge James Wheelis issued a ruling regarding a request by accused double murderer Tiffanie Rae Pierce to move her trial out of Missoula.

Attorneys for accused double murderer Augustus Standingrock asked and were denied a delayed trial date that is now scheduled for January 4 in Missoula District Court before Judge James Wheelis.

Two men are now in custody in connection with a double murder early Friday morning at a Missoula motel.

23 year-old Tiffanie Rae Pierce, charged with two counts of deliberate homicide in the stabbing deaths and dismemberment of 15 year-old Marilyn Pickett and 24 year-old Jackson Wiles, is also charged with attempted deliberate homicide in a separate case.

Frenchtown transgendered woman pleads not guilty to two counts of deliberate homicide and remains in jail on $2 million bond.

Missoula County Sheriff's deputies were blanketing the county on Tuesday issuing evacuation warnings to residents near the Lolo Creek Fire, The Rice Ridge Fire and the Sapphire Complex near Rock Creek.

A judge has denied prosecutors a mental exam for Jesus Deniz Mendoza, the Wyoming teenager accused of gunning down a husband and wife and wounding their daughter on Montana's Crow Reservation.