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Evening Newscast 07-01-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On tonight's evening newscast: A Billings man has applied for a marriage license so he can legally wed his second wife.

The Glacier Rim fire burning outside Glacier National Park is being called 35% contained, and all of the smaller spot fires it started inside the park are now out.

A federal appeals court will take up a dispute over whether a 6-foot-tall statue of Jesus should remain on U.S. Forest Service land next to the Whitefish Mountain ski resort.

A Helena judge says a state law cutting teachers' inflationary pension increases is unconstitutional.

A panel of prominent scientists are meeting in Bozeman to talk about controlling brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone area, It’s the start of a year-long process to evaluate options for trying to control the disease.

Montana health officials say the year's first human case of West Nile virus has been reported in Rosebud County.

Mountain Water Company has asked for a delay in the city of Missoula's attempt to acquire the utility.

Ken Blatt St. Marks, who has been repeatedly elected and removed as chairman of the Chippewa Cree Tribal Business Committee, has been elected for a fourth time.

The Montana Supreme Court says Missoula police were wrong to seize a Hummer titled to a Missoula woman.

A young boy playing with fireworks started a fire east of Ronan that caused $250,000 in damage to a shop and apartment.

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