Montana Issues Startling Fentanyl Warning After 8 Overdose Deaths

The Montana Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation issued a statewide warning on Tuesday after eight people recently died of an overdose of fentanyl in 10 Montana counties. KGVO News spoke to Bryan Lockerby, Administrator of the Division of Criminal Investigation at the Montana Department of Justice for details on a bulletin that was sent to …

8 Montanans Died of Fentanyl Overdose in Last 10 Days+ Deadliest Week on Record

Fentanyl deaths continue to spike precipitously in the state, with the Riverstone Health in Billings reporting that 8 people have overdosed and died from the dangerous drug between May 22 and June 1st, making it the deadlines week on record and continuing to set a blistering pace that is expected to to be several magnitudes …

Amount of fentanyl seized in 2022 surpasses 2021 total

The amount of fentanyl seized by the Montana Highway Patrol just months into 2022 has already surpassed the 2021 total, MHP Colonel Steve Lavin said in a Thursday press release. According to the release, troopers confiscated 12,079 fentanyl pills through March 15, 2022, compared to just 3,800 in 2021. Arrests are also rising. Between 2018 …

From the Boot Wearing Preacher: Transhumanism, Transgenderism, and the Bible

This message was preached by Pastor Jordan Hall – aka Montana’s ‘Boot Wearing Preacher,’ publisher for Montana Daily Gazette, in July of 2021. In it, you can see his passion for the Word of God and human flourishing, tying together transhumanism, transgenderism, and what the Bible says about it. Watch it here. https://www.youtube.com/embed/XxCus4KstLE?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent (source) Have …

New beginning for Lake County Drug Court graduates

These young men need the Gospel of Jesus to be free from Addiction Lailani Upham May 23, 2019 Lake County Judicial Court Drug Court Judge James Manley shares a laugh with Drug Court graduates and CSKT members, Bradley Cannon, 22, and Dale Joseph of Elmo. Graduates completed the yearlong day-to-day program. “It was hard in …

Lawmakers just said no to recreational marijuana in Montana

MICHAEL WOODEL michael.woodel@helenair.com Mar 28, 2019 Updated 1 hr ago A bill to legalize recreational marijuana use for Montanans 18 and older failed to advance Thursday from a state House committee. Rep. Tom Winter, D-Missoula, tried to assure the House Taxation committee that his House Bill 770 served as a reaction to, not a model of, mistakes made in …

Lake County prepares to sue opioid makers

PATRICK REILLY patrick.reilly@missoulian.com - Oct 2, 2018 Updated Oct 4, 2018 Lake County is poised to join a national wave of lawsuits against the makers of opioid-based painkillers. The county commissioners have retained a group of Texas- and Montana-based law firms to represent them in a lawsuit against several drug manufacturers. This step links Lake County to hundreds …