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Evening Newscast 02-12-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

Montana Lawmakers have moved to help fund an effort to prevent child abuse by taking money from the budget for the governor's office.

A 24-year-old Harlem man is charged with involuntary manslaughter for a car crash that killed a passenger last spring.
 
Spending on a government-sponsored initiative to help struggling sage grouse populations in the West is projected to exceed $750 million by 2018.
 
A Missoula judge today sentenced Markus Kaarma to 70 years in prison for killing German exchange student Diren Dede in his garage last April.

A 23 year-old Idaho man who pleaded guilty to robbing a Montana medical marijuana provider has been sentenced to 15 years in prison with 10 of those years suspended. 

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