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He is expected to appear via video from the Montana State Hospital, where he has been committed since last year.

Christensen said the women “knew full well” they’d be involved in prostitution and he declined to step into the role “of collection agency for sex workers.”

The Greens’ home was raided in January, and a search turned up the opioid carfentanil, hundreds of grams of methamphetamine and thousands of pills of the anxiety medicine Xanax.

U.S. District Judge Susan Watters sentenced 49-year-old Shawn Thomas Conrad of Billings on Friday.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A man who cursed at jurors and called them “stupid” after they found him guilty of raping a teenager in Montana has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. The Billings Gazette reports 36-year-old Marcial Mejia was sentenced Tuesday for sexual intercourse without consent...

In Ravalli County District Court on Friday morning, former Florence doctor Chris Christensen was sentenced to 20 years in prison with 10 suspended

The man convicted of kidnapping a 4-year-old Poplar girl from a park and raping her before leaving her for dead was sentenced on Wednesday to 42 years in federal prison.  21-year-old John Lieba heard the sentence in U.S. District Court in Great Falls Wednesday– 500 months in prison for kidnapping, aggravated sexual abuse, and assault– he was found guilty in a federal trial in April...