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Evening Newscast 07-29-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On tonight's evening newscast: Missoula's St. Patrick Hospital invited the media to see its new family maternity center that opens Monday.

A relative says his aunt, uncle and cousin were gunned down when they stopped to help a man whose vehicle had run out of gas on Montana's Crow Indian Reservation today.

A judge has sentenced a former Chippewa Cree tribal council member to 5  1/2 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to embezzlement, tax evasion and other charges in a federal corruption investigation.

Doctors and state officials today launched a new effort to fight the over-use of narcotic prescription drugs in Montana.

Authorities now believe that the fire burning in Glacier National Park was human-caused, and the National Park Service is turning to the public for help.

Flathead County has a tentative agreement to purchase a former Wal-Mart building in Evergreen to house the county jail.

 

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