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Evening Newscast 03-09-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On today's Montana Evening Newscast:

House Minority Leader Chuck Hunter says the Republican-led committee trying to kill Governor Bullock’s Medicaid expansion bill abused its power when the bill was heard late Friday. It failed on a party line vote.

Columbia Falls may know by autumn whether the now-closed aluminum smelter there will become a Superfund site.

A coroner's inquest began today in the case of a Missoula police officer who shot a man to death after a car chase through the city early on New Year's Eve.

By a slim margin a  “dark money” disclosure bill survived another day at the Legislature.

Missoula firefighter Andrew Drobeck won the annual Scott Firefighter Stairclimb in Seattle for the fourth consecutive year.

A county division of the Montana Republican Party has censured one of its most senior representatives for proposing legislation that would protect the state's open primaries.

Tomorrow brings round two for a bill at the Montana Legislature to allow guns on college campuses.

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