As of Thursday, February 10, 2022. Montana reports 255,411 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 1,055 new cases of coronavirus infection reported since yesterday: 139 new cases in Cascade County, 112 new cases in Flathead County, 85 new cases in Gallatin County, 81 new cases in Yellowstone County, and more new cases in 43 more Montana counties. The number of active coronavirus cases in Montana is 8,795. All of Montana’s 56 counties report active cases. Currently, 282 people are being treated in Montana hospitals for COVID-19. 3,061 people have died in Montana of COVID-19. Ten more people’s deaths have been reported since yesterday. Nationwide, more than 911,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. There have been 77,200,000 cases of coronavirus in the US, and counting.

Montana state district court Judge Mike Menahan struck two provisions in a law passed by the Republican majority Montana Legislature last year. Menahan ruled that Republican legislators violated the state Constitution when they added sections unrelated to the original intent of the bill in a late-session meeting without public participation.

A man accused of shooting and killing a man in Clyde Park, a community of about 275 people in the Shields Valley north of Livingston, in the early morning Tuesday, Skyler Griebel, 29, is charged with deliberate homicide and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted person, both felonies. A judge has set bail at $1.5 million.

Did you know? In the Olympics, Russian athletes are not allowed to compete under their country’s name, or with its flag and anthem, due to a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport following a landmark case that found that Russia was guilty of state-ordered tampering of a testing laboratory database in Moscow. Instead, athletes compete as members of the newly-created Russian Olympic Committee.