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Evening Newscast 06-15-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

The U.S Forest Service could have fewer firefighting air tankers than it originally planned for this fire season.

A 24­ year­ old man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for the stabbing death of a Billings photographer and philanthropist who often gave money to people in need.

Fire danger is now high in Missoula County, one month earlier than last year.

Today in Helena, an appointed committee began preparations to close the Montana Developmental Center and put its clients into community­based treatment.

The U.S. Department of Education is investigating the University of Washington over its response to a report of sexual violence.

Montana’s Congressional delegation today introduced a bill to give Wild and Scenic River status to East Rosebud Creek, which drains the Absaroka-­Beartooth range northwest of Red Lodge.

The Seattle ­ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees are working to draw conclusions from some 3,000 comments on a plan to restore grizzly bears to the North Cascades.

Leaders of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians want Montana officials to allow its members to hunt more bison that leave Yellowstone National Park.

Deputies are investigating a fight outside a bar in northwestern Montana that left a woman with a gunshot wound to the arm.

Law enforcement officers say a 15­ year­-old boy who died after crashing a pickup truck during a police pursuit was driving a stolen vehicle.

A Cascade­area couple says state firefighters unnecessarily cut down a tree housing a bald eagles' nest and killed an eaglet while fighting a fire last week.

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