A real estate expert says a $375 million loan to the Yellowstone Club before it sought bankruptcy protection was based on faulty assumptions that sales at the exclusive Montana club would be brisk.

A Montana man who replied to a jury summons with an expletive-filled affidavit has apologized to the court on a judge’s orders.

Court filings show that the owner of a financially struggling Montana haven for the rich is herself more than $150 million in debt, with most of her many houses, cars and other belongings put up as collateral on overdue loans.

The founders of the Yellowstone Club are trading blame over who is responsible for the financial collapse of the Montana haven for the rich that has fallen more than $400 million into debt.

Montana is trying to trigger a battle over gun control _ and perhaps make a larger point about what many folks in this ruggedly independent state regard as a meddlesome federal government.

A storm has dumped as much as 4 feet of snow on northwest Montana, blocking major highways and isolating one town.

President Barack Obama has 240 terror suspects he has said will be moved out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year. The city of Hardin has a brand-new empty jail.

A federal bankruptcy judge on Wednesday delayed a civil trial on creditors’ claims that the exclusive Yellowstone Club in Montana was looted by its former owner.

A federal bankruptcy judge has delayed until next week the civil trial on creditors’ claims that the exclusive Yellowstone Club in Montana was looted by the club’s former owner.

The Montana state auditor and securities commissioner Thursday filed a complaint against two businessmen, alleging they committed securities fraud and conducted a Ponzi scheme involving at least 100 investors and more than $14.3 million.