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Evening Newscast 04-21-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

A woman jailed in connection with the death of a one year old girl on the Fort Peck Indian reservation is scheduled to appear in tribal court tomorrow.

A man who has argued he was wrongly convicted of raping a 13 year old boy at the juvenile detention center in Missoula County in 2002 has been released from a private prison in Shelby.

The man hired to guide the federal government’s grizzly bear recovery program retires at the end of this month.

It may be a while before a 2,000 gallon gasoline spill is fully cleaned up outside Alberton.

Gubernatorial candidate Greg Gianforte has said in recent campaign speeches that Facebook passed over Montana as a location for a data center mainly because of the state's business equipment tax.

A federal judge is demanding jailed former billionaire Tim Blixseth reveal what happened to hundreds of millions of dollars he diverted from a luxury Montana resort.

Three Republican lawmakers say they will introduce legislation next year to prohibit use of the Montana's government-owned airplane for campaign purposes.

A fire that killed 3,100 pigs and destroyed their barn on a Hutterite colony south of Augusta caused an estimated $1.3 million in damage.

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