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A friend has sent you a link to an article found on FlatheadBeacon.com. To read the full text of this article online, click here: http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/weekend_mining_ban_haiti_music_buffoon_burglar/16139/ ARTICLE EXCERPT: Good morning; on the Beacon today, leaders from Montana and British Columbia have signed an agreement that bans mining and drilling in a valley along the U.S.-Canadian border north of Glacier National Park. Two upcoming music events hope to harness that support and showcase local talent in order to send aid to Haiti. Lido's got a photo of the aftermath of a southbound tractor-trailer hauling a piece of logging equipment that clipped the cross beam of the light tower causing it to detach from its base and fall into the center turn lane. The state Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department says whitetail deer hunting will be limited to bucks in northwest Montana's Region One for the next two years. Warren Miller writes his column on morphine with a broken back this week. And Mick Holien second-guesses Eastern Washington University's decision to install red turf. A software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service launched a suicide attack on the agency Thursday by crashing his small plane into an office building containing nearly 200 IRS employees, setting off a raging fire that sent workers fleeing for their lives. Bozeman commissioners have asked the city's planning department, police and legal staff to compile a list of concerns about medical marijuana so they can discuss the possibility of temporarily restricting the local industry. With tax collections tanking and jobless rates at record highs, state legislators hundreds of miles from Washington have found an easy way to appeal to conservative voters: Bash the federal government. A Polson judge ordered a mental evaluation for the man charged with attempting to claim ownership of several vacant homes by filing paperwork as the owner. Amid the budget-cutting pessimism facing state government, some rays of optimism emerged for the next fiscal year from both Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s budget director and the Legislature’s chief revenue forecaster. And a Hamilton man was arrested for breaking into the newsroom of the Ravalli Republic newsroom, looking at porn, logging onto his Facebook account and leaving a trail of snacks leading authorities to his whereabouts following the burglary.