Big Horn County

I've been to the Little Bighorn Battlefield a few times, starting when I was just a kid, but I had never been to the reenactment ceremony. So I finally made it on Friday, and I have to say it is something that you have got to see one of these years.

Investigators believe the escaped men arranged to meet a getaway car across the street in the parking lot of a chiropractor’s office.

Sheriff Mike Linder declined to give details about the escape but said the inmates caused some property damage.

The Montana Highway Patrol reports the crash happened Friday and was discovered Saturday afternoon by a family member searching for the men.

The Montana Department of Livestock on Thursday issued a rabies quarantine for Big Horn County. All dogs, cats and ferrets must be vaccinated at least 28 days before traveling outside the county, after a stray cat tested positive for rabies...

The Billings Gazette reports that a Washington homicide suspect was arrested early Saturday morning after a foot chase outside a Hardin gas station by two members of the Big Horn County Sheriff’s Office. 36-year-old Jacob Ozuna was booked into the Big Horn County Jail at about 4 a...

As of Thursday, Hardin art teacher Nora Block is facing multiple felony charges after a handgun was found in her classroom over the weekend. According to a spokesman for the Big Horn County Sheriff’s Office, Block knowingly possessed a firearm on school property and deliberately hid the gun from law enforcement, according to charging documents obtained by MTN News....

The Billings Gazette reports that an art teacher at Hardin High School has been arrested for having a gun on campus, tampering with evidence and obstruction of justice in connection with a weapon found in a school classroom over the weekend...

Two separate vehicle crashes resulted in two fatalities early this morning in Yellowstone and Big Horn Counties.  The first occurred around 12:30 a.m. on Secondary Highway 314, between Busby and Kirby.  A 29-year-old Washington man driving a Ford pickup, apparently drifted off the road before crashing into the end of a guardrail and rolling down an embankment into a creek...

I read about this today in the Billlings Gazette.  If you are a pet owner, you need to be aware that there is a quarantine in Big Horn County.  According to the t.v. news station KTVQ "The Department of Livestock issued a quarantine order on Wednesday after a skunk tested positive for rabies".