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Evening Newscast 03-30-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On tonight's evening newscast: The state Senate has passed a Republican lawmaker's compromise Medicaid expansion bill.

Some conservation groups and outdoor-related business are critical of U.S. Sen. Steve Daines for his vote on an amendment related to federal land transfers.

A federal appeals court has affirmed the mental competency of a man sentenced to die for kidnapping, torturing and murdering an Idaho boy in 2005.

Ravalli County officials have released the name of a 74-year-old Conner man who died after falling into the Bitterroot River while fishing.

Governor Steve Bullock could be forced to rent an airplane after Republican Representatives stripped his from the statewide budget earlier this month.

State and federal wildlife officials euthanized a male grizzly bear after it killed a calf on a ranch west of Augusta.

Health insurance plans in Montana would have to offer some policies that didn’t cover abortion services, under a bill heard today in a House Committee.

A Montana law that allows the state to revoke peoples’ drivers licenses for defaulting on their student loans appears headed for the scrapheap.

One woman died and three others were injured in a five-vehicle pileup in the westbound lanes of Interstate 90 near Laurel during a weekend dust storm.

 

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