Rudyard woman gives millions to MSU By JO DEE BLACK Tribune Business Editor RUDYARD When Jeff Jacobsen, the dean of Montana State University Bozeman, revealed the amount a retired farmer and rancher plans to donate to the school's Animal Bioscience Teaching Facility capital campaign during Ag Days earlier this month, he said the number twice. Rudyard woman gives millions to MSU By JO DEE BLACK Tribune Business Editor RUDYARD When Jeff Jacobsen, the dean of Montana State University Bozeman,...

Mattress in road sparked I-490 truck fire Staff reports November 14, 2007 9:25 am A portion of Interstate 490 was closed for nearly eight hours after a tractor-trailer ran over a mattress last night that apparently started a fire on the highway. Helfer said the truck was carrying heavy machinery and oil and apparently had leaked some oil on the road. Helfer said Tylyuk was unable to avoid a metal-coil mattress that had fallen on the westbound lanes of highway. When the rig struck the...

Deer are roaming and the dog tries to bolt after them, my big brave dog who gives up and calms down only to be spooked by milkweed pods dried on their stalks. Bushes and plants, heavy laden with seed, bend, and the leaves are fewer and fewer on the trees, the sun more able to shine through, the ocean back in sight. There are places the grass is green, others where it has yet to recover from the summer and is dry. We see the twisting ropes of Virginia creeper, October red, the bright orange...

Melvin enjoyed flying remote control airplanes, fishing, collecting antique tractors and Boy Scouting. Calhoun II, 40, Roaring Spring RR 1, died Sunday afternoon at his residence. He was born in Altoona, son of Melvin A. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. Surviving are his wife; two children: Elizabeth Ann and Aaron Michael, both at home; his parents of Roaring Spring; a sister, Renee Kiesel of Duncansville RD; a brother, Ronald Calhoun of Roaring Spring; and several nieces and nephews....

The patrol says Forbes was southbound on a county road when he failed to yield at an intersection and was hit by a westbound tractor-trailer. The driver of the other big rig was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in fair condition. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Collision leaves Woodward man dead. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says 28-year-old Jeremy Le Roy Forbes of Woodward died in the crash when the soil farming truck he was driving...

The 38-year-old plastic injection molding technician makes casings for thermometers, dashboards and computers using a 440-ton press that shoots hot plastic and water into custom-designed cavities: I am a plastic injection molding technician that basically sets up molds and gets them ready for production runs and measures a part to the satisfaction of the customer s design. The 38-year-old plastic injection molding technician makes casings for thermometers, dashboards and computers using a...