Articles from the January 30, 2025 edition

Jeb Boettger, Editor, The Cascade Courier|Jan 30, 2025

On January 29, Jeremy Carpenter, 23, entered a guilty plea to a felony charge of vehicular homicide as part of a plea agreement. The charges stem from a tragic crash that occurred on July 11, 2024, when Carpenter drove the wrong way on Interstate 15, colliding head-on with another vehicle near mile marker 261. According to the Montana Highway Patrol and court documents, Carpenter was traveling south in the northbound lanes when he crashed into a northbound pickup truck. The 58-year-old driver...