8:40 a.m. A minivan with a big red bow on the back and a Subaru were stolen from East Edgewood Drive in Whitefish.

8:48 a.m. A Columbia Falls woman reported that someone’s ram has been hanging around her yard for the past week.

9:09 a.m. A dog described as a sheep wearing eye liner ran away from home.

9:48 a.m. A resident on Ridgeway Court complained that three goats were doing goat things in her yard.

10:53 p.m. A Columbia Falls woman reported that a county inmate calls her every night.

11:48 a.m. A woman on Airport Road reported that dogs are constantly roaming in and out of her front yard. She believes that they may have taken down a deer.

1:36 p.m. There is talk that stray dogs have infiltrated the local Walmart.

2:28 p.m. Someone called in claiming that a wolf dog was at a store on Highway 2 East, refusing to leave.

4:45 p.m. A car, not the driver, called 911. There was no emergency.

11:21 p.m. A man called from Airport Road to report that his roommate locked him out and left his computer out in the snow.

Eighteen grizzly bears were killed in encounters with humans in north-central Montana this year, but none had to be destroyed by wardens for becoming troublesome, state and federal experts said.

The statistics were disclosed this week by the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee, a group that oversees the recovery of the threatened species.

The group includes representatives of the Idaho, Montana and Wyoming governments and the U.S. Forest Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service.

The statistics cover the 9,600-square-mile Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem in Montana. It's one of six grizzly bear recovery zones in Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming and the Canadian province of British Columbia.

The 18 bears died in encounters with hunters, landowners or cars or in other situations, officials said.

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