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Evening Newscast 03-28-17

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
Montana Evening Newscast

A Montana Senate committee is adding money to the state budget for programs in education and health care.

The Butte Rescue Mission must vacate the house it currently uses by Monday, after inspectors found code violations and safety concerns.

Senate Bill 373 would make it so that online travel companies would have to pay a seven percent tax, which is comprised of a sales tax and a lodging facility use tax.

A former Montana State University student has filed a lawsuit accusing the school of violating his rights by kicking him off campus after he made comments criticizing transgender people. Montana Senators have tentatively approved a measure granting themselves the right to carry concealed weapons in the state Capitol and other state property.

A police report says a man charged with killing a man from Sidney, Montana and wounding another on a double-decker Las Vegas Strip transit bus last weekend told detectives he fired a gun because he felt threatened by a man who sat near him and was trying to scare with gunfire.

A Montana lawmaker wants voters to change the state constitution to declare that human life begins at conception.

The Montana Human Rights Bureau has denied a former Missoula County undersheriff's claim that he was discriminated against when he was reassigned after a new sheriff was elected.

Montana employers could get tax credits for hiring Native Americans if House Bill 655 makes it through the Legislature.

 

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