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Jan. 3 — There is one objection to the passing of a law making it manslaughter for a hunter to kill a human being in mistake for a deer or other animal, and that is if the shooter knew discovery would mean a term in the penitentiary, he might leave a man

whom he had shot and wounded to perish instead of caring for him; except for that possibility there is no valid reason for putting the entire responsibility for an accidental killing of this kind on the shooter.

— The Inter Lake, 1908

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GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Montana said Friday he’s prepared to hold the U.S. Forest Service in contempt of court for a “duplicitous” strategy of skirting the law so it can keep

fighting wildfires with retardant that kills fish.

Judge Donald W. Molloy set a Feb. 26 hearing in U.S. District Court in Missoula to give the For-est Service a chance to convince

him that Agriculture Undersecre-tary Mark Rey should not be put in jail and fire retardant drops from aircraft be stopped nation-wide until the agency properly considers the dangers to the envi-ronment.

“The Forest Service, through-out these proceedings, evidenced a strategy of circumventing, rather than complying with,” the National Environmental Policy

Act and the Endangered Spe-cies Act, the judge wrote. “The apparent pattern suggests a strategy of looking for ways to avoid the law’s mandate as opposed to looking for a means of complying with the law.

“In my view, the Forest Service is in contempt of the law and the prior orders of this court. Nonetheless, a hearing is appro-

priate before reaching a final con-clusion on that issue.”

Potential sanctions include sending Rey to jail, putting him under house arrest and banning the Forest Service from using any

fire retardants but water in air tankers, Molloy wrote.

In an earlier order, Molloy

Federal judge threatens jail for Bush officialMolloy of Missoula sets hearing date over Forest Service use of fire retardant

Karen Nichols file photos/Daily Inter Lake

THE FLATHEAD RIVER flows past the Harbor Village area in this fall 2006 aerial photo. Remapping of Flathead County by the Federal Emergency Management Agency now places more homeowners within the 100-year flood plain. Owners with mortgages are being surprised with notices from their banks requiring them to purchase flood insurance.

LEFT: HIGH WATERS of the Flathead Riv-er pass by the Harbor Village area in this spring 2006 file photo.

Map quest

Hundreds of Flathead Coun-ty homeowners are receiv-ing unexpected notices that

they must purchase flood insur-ance. New flood-plain maps by the Federal Emergency Management Agency took effect Sept. 28, and the agency determined that the county’s danger zone for flooding has expanded.

Lending institutions are alert-ing customers that they are now living in a 100-year flood plain, and the federal government requires that anyone living in

that zone and has a mortgage must insure their homes.

That’s surprising — and unpleasant — news for homeown-ers like Doug Raymond who owns a home in Harbor Village in Bigfork. When he and his wife moved into their home six months ago, their bank never said a word about flood insurance. But when the updated flood maps came out in September, Raymond’s home was suddenly listed as being in

Story by MICHAEL

RICHESONThe Daily Inter Lake

New charts cost homeowners thousands

Updated flood plain insurance plats list more homes in danger zone

The Daily Inter Lake

A Kalispell woman report-edly on her way to work was killed Friday morning in a two car accident near Bad Rock Canyon.

Paulette Kaderli, 46, was eastbound on U.S. 2 near the House of Mystery at 7:41 a.m. when she lost control of her car and slid sideways into oncom-ing traffic, according to the Montana Highway Patrol.

A 1983 Chevrolet Blazer trav-eling westbound struck Kader-li’s 1990 Volkswagon Fox on the passenger side.

She was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Flat-head County coroners.

The driver of the Blazer, who suffered minor injuries, was taken to Kalispell Regional Medical Center by private vehicle. Kaderli and the other driver were the only occupants in their respective vehicles.

Icy road conditions contrib-uted to the accident, according to the Highway Patrol.

Kaderli’s death is the first traffic-related fatality in Flat-head County this year.

There were 25 traffic fatali-ties in Flathead County in 2007.

Woman killed in accident

Bank of America to acquire Countrywide for $4.1 billion in stockBy IEVA M. AUGSTUMSAP Business Writer

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In a career defined by blockbuster deals, Bank of America chief executive Ken Lewis has taken his biggest gamble yet with an attempt to rescue the country’s biggest mortgage lender, Coun-trywide Financial.

Lewis may have become a market savior by buying the troubled Countrywide for about

Troubled lender gets bought out

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