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Evening Newscast 01-05-18

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
Evening Newscast 01-05-18

Wildlife officials say two deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease after they were killed in the opening weekend of a special hunt underway in southern Montana to gauge the prevalence of the brain-wasting illness.

A Rocky Boy woman has pleaded guilty to defrauding a Montana tribe's construction company.

A university dean says only one female permanent dean remains at the University of Montana, creating a gender balance issue.

The top federal prosecutor in Montana said today there will be "no changes to our approach" on marijuana prosecutions after Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the government's previous guidance on the drug.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy is trying to prevent a commercial building in northwestern Montana designed by the famed architect from being demolished.

A longtime Butte physician is charged with sexually assaulting three female patients, using pain medications to coerce them.

The Chippewa Cree tribe's online lending company has reached a settlement in a lawsuit filed after the lender and the tribe's development corporation failed to repay loans taken out to expand the Northern Winz Casino near Box Elder.

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