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Evening Newscast 01-13-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau announced today at Missoula’s Sentinel High School that 86 percent of students graduated in 2015. That’s a jump of nearly six percent since 2009.

A man who was shot by two Kalispell police officers yesterday was hospitalized in critical condition after undergoing surgery.

The Washington state legislature is preparing to take up a bill that could close a portion of Montana’s Colstrip power plant. Today Montana lawmakers voted to send two representatives to Olympia try to save Colstrip.

Investigators say the killing of a Montana man by a grizzly bear last summer underscores the need for hikers around Yellowstone National Park to travel in groups and take other precautions against bear attacks.

A plan to create the nation's largest oil transfer terminal has hundreds of Vancouver-area residents speaking up, and Spokane will soon have the chance to weigh in.
 

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