Billings

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Police in Billings say a woman in her 50s was killed and a man injured in a head-on crash at a city roundabout. Sgt. Matt Brewer tells The Billings Gazette a sport utility vehicle entered the roundabout in the wrong direction Monday morning and collided head-on with a van...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — An assistant fire chief in Billings is on paid administrative leave pending an investigation. City Administrator Tina Volek said Monday that Frank Odermann was placed on leave Thursday. KTVQ-TV in Billings reports the investigation stems from an internal complaint...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Billings man has been charged with felony assault on a minor over a spanking of his 2-year-old son. Prosecutors say 25-year-old Troy Robin Anthony Villa inflicted serious injury on his son. The Billings Gazette reports a judge on Thursday set his bond at $15,000...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Authorities have identified a man killed by Billings police after he shot at officers who were attempting to arrest him at a gas station. Billings police spokesman Lt. Kevin Iffland says the man killed Thursday is 29-year-old Michael Brandon of Billings...

RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — A coroner's inquest in Carbon County is examining whether a Red Lodge police officer acted appropriately in the shooting death of a Billings man along the Beartooth Highway. Thirty-five-year-old Timothy William Patrick was killed in October during a shootout with Assistant Police Chief Scott Cope...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Police in Billings shot and killed a man wanted on a felony warrant after he shot at officers who tried to apprehend him at a gas station and later exchanged gunfire with officers at a downtown motel. Police Chief Rich St...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The suspects in the disappearance and killing of a Montana teacher have pleaded not guilty to murder and attempted kidnapping. Forty-eight-year-old Lester Van Waters Jr. and 23-year-old Michael Spell were arraigned Tuesday on new charges filed since the March discovery of Sherry Arnold's body in a shallow grave in North Dakota...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The president of a Texas-based oil and gas exploration company made an impromptu $20,000 donation to a women's shelter in Billings on Mother's Day. Sam Tallis tells The Billings Gazette he was eating breakfast at a cafe Sunday where other families were celebrating...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A 43-year-old Billings man has been arrested on suspicion of a string of church and business burglaries in Stillwater County. The Billings Gazette reports a deputy arrested John Chambers at 3:30 a.m. Friday near a church in Reed Point...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Highway Patrol says a 37-year-old Billings man died Sunday morning after losing control of his vehicle on Interstate 90 in Billings and being ejected when the vehicle rolled. Police tell the Billings Gazette the man was driving a Chevrolet pickup eastbound when he drifted off the south side of the road about 4 a...