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Evening Newscast 03-06-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On tonight's evening newscast: Montana Senators voted to pass a bill to give schools bordering Montana’s oil country more of the taxes generated from oil development in their area.

A Montana man is accused of threatening police officers with a hammer and using his children as shields after officers drew their weapons.

Governor Bullock’s Medicaid expansion plan is getting its first hearing in the Montana Legislature at this hour.

Two Gallatin County jail inmates face charges they attacked a detention officer during a recent escape attempt.

State senators are considering a set of bills to expand Montana's mental health care system.

Attorneys for two journalists have filed a lawsuit seeking the release of hundreds of racist and inappropriate emails from Montana's former Chief U.S. District Judge.

A Hardin man who pleaded guilty to stabbing a man to death on the Crow Indian Reservation and dumping his body in the Bighorn River has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.

A man facing charges he stole a truck with a street sweeper and planned to drive to Mexico has been sentenced to 5 years in prison on drug and trespassing charges.

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