Billings

Bank to pay $2 million for ‘mistaken’ foreclosure

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Normans

A District Court jury has awarded a Billings man just over $2 million in his action against a bank that foreclosed on and sold a house that he and his wife had purchased outright for cash two years earlier.

After a four-day trial in the court of Yellowstone County District Judge Ingrid Gustafson last week, the jury unanimously awarded Jason Norman $350,000 in lost profitability, $100,000 for emotional distress and $1.6 million in punitive damages against Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. Continue Reading →

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Diversions

The Bar Tab: Average Joe would love the Squire Lounge

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Squire

Do you like to relax with an after-work drink? Do you meet friends for a happy hour beverage at the end of a long week? Do you feel like you frequent the same handful of bars every time you go out?

If so, please keep reading. We are a youngish professional couple who know how you feel. Driving home from work one day, we were in the mood to settle in for a cocktail but were tired of the same old haunts. Continue Reading →

Prairie Lights

Prairie Lights: Brain surgeon stands up to Egyptologists

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Carson

I see where all the pointy-headed commentators are making fun of Dr. Ben Carson, the Republican presidential candidate, for asserting that the ancient Egyptian pyramids were built by Joseph, last name unknown.

Carson, citing references in the Bible, has said that Joseph, known for his coat of multiple hues, built the pyramids to store grain. The pointy-heads say this can’t be true because there are something like 130 pyramids, built over a period of at least 1,000 years. Continue Reading →

Montana

Keep it local: Lessons from Livingston on ending hunger

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Tour

LIVINGSTON—Michael McCormick brought a long career in corporate marketing to his post-retirement job as director of the Livingston Food Resource Center, which used to operate as a simple food pantry.

It didn’t take him long to determine that the old model—raise money, buy food, hand it out, repeat—didn’t make any sense. He turned to his background to find a new model, one that is heavy on business, on training and promoting economic development. Continue Reading →

Diversions

After record year, Yellowstone Park makes plans for 2016

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Gate

CODY, WYO. — Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk has been making the rounds to gateway communities to discuss the ups and downs of the park’s record summer visitation. The good news is that more people are coming to Yellowstone than ever. Which is also the bad news.

Or more specifically, that so many autos and buses are rolling through the park. Continue Reading →