An unidentified man drowned on Saturday afternoon after fleeing from Missoula Police officers and driving his vehicle into a field and then a pond near Target Range Elementary School.
46 year-old Jerry Taylor was in the Missoula County Jail charged with possession and distribution of methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a local elementary school.
When a student resides in a Missoula County Public School district, but the parents choose a school out of the district, MCPS loses the revenue from that student.
A Missoula eighth-grader has won the state geography bee and a trip to next month's 2011 National Geographic Bee in Washington, D.C.
Claire Hinther of Target Range School won last weekend's bee in Billings over 95 other fourth- through eighth-graders who competed. Not only is she the state's champ but she is also the 2011 Missoula County Spelling Bee Champ.