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Evening Newscast 07-19-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

A 32 year-old military veteran from Anaconda accused of taking leadership roles in two armed standoffs involving federal authorities pleaded guilty today, and is expected to do the same with charges in Nevada, prosecutors said.

State officials say 13 Montana counties are now under drought alerts.

Democratic candidate for Montana’s seat in the U-S House Denise Juneau says her opponent’s speech at the Republican National Convention last night shows he’s more focused on his own political career than the needs of Montanans.  

Records say tribal officials in Montana detained dozens of people because they didn't want street people or transients to be the face of a rodeo event in Fort Peck.

Montana wildlife officials say they captured and killed a female grizzly bear near Ferndale after the grizzly and her two cubs killed animals and rooted around homes. 

The Great Falls Tribune is reporting there is a fire in a recently cut grain field a few miles north of Great Falls.

A regulatory panel is accusing a Ravalli County judicial candidate of professional misconduct over a radio ad that says the incumbent judge he is trying to unseat committed fraud. 

The Fort Peck reservation has shot down a proposed law that would have created harsher penalties for possession of methamphetamine. 

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