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Evening Newscast 04-08-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On this edition of the Montana Evening Newscast, a Medicaid expansion bill is still alive at the Montana legislature. It will be voted on by the full House of Representatives tomorrow afternoon.

State lawmakers debated reproductive rights today.

The Ravalli County commission is trying to find someone who can track down former county treasurer Valerie Stamey.

The controversy over the water compact for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes continued this week when the head of the Flathead Country Republicans alleged that groups supporting the compact failed to fully disclose their lobbying activities.

A top federal regulator says a pipeline that spilled 30,000 gallons of oil into Montana's Yellowstone River was split at the site of an exposed weld where the line crosses beneath the river.

Montana Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Webb Brown and leaders of the Crow and Navajo American Indian tribes are touting the mining jobs and other benefits provided to their reservations by the coal industry.

A Missoula County man who claimed to have a terminal illness to get sympathy from a 15-year-old girl before raping her has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, with 15 suspended.

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