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Evening Newscast 07-14-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On tonight's evening newscast: Federal officials say the error rate in Montana's food stamp program rose last year to more than twice the national average.

Members of Montana's congressional delegation say the Air Force is keeping an engineering squadron in Great Falls.

Farmers in the Flathead Lake region are harvesting cherries that are smaller, sweeter and about a week early...the result of a freeze in November followed by a hot spring and summer.

An appeals court says people who were convicted of crimes through inconclusive or outdated DNA testing procedures should be allowed new tests using the latest technological advances without regard to a three-year time limit set by law.

A 16-year-old girl told a 911 dispatcher that she "was the only one that survived" after a small plane crashed in the mountains of Washington state.

A northwestern Montana teen was honored for helping a drunk driver who crashed into a school bus and then getting 10 kids off the bus when he noticed a fuel leak.

A new judge is on the bench in a central Montana county after he was sworn in Monday in a courtroom where he made one of his first appearances as a lawyer.

Insurers for the Southern Baptist Convention have agreed to pay $26 million to a South Carolina man who has paralyzed and suffered brain damage in a rollover crash during a 2009 missionary trip in Montana.

Some swimmers got an unpleasant surprise after taking a dip in the Willow Creek reservoir east of Great Falls recently.

 

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