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Evening Newscast 08-06-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

On tonight's evening newscast: Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry says investigators believe a transient smoking a cigarette may have started the fire that burned at least two homes and several outbuildings yesterday in Evergreen, northeast of Kalispell.

A federal grand jury has indicted a Wyoming man arrested in the fatal roadside shooting of a Montana man and his wife.

Members of armed groups that call themselves constitutional advocates have arrived in Lincoln to support a mine owner during an ongoing dispute with the U.S. Forest Service about a federal mining claim.

Fire managers in Glacier National Park say the fire burning there neither grew yesterday, nor did the amount of fire line constructed around it. The fire remains estimated at just under 4,000 acres in size and 67% contained.

State wildlife officials have given initial approval to a plan expanding the ability of landowners to obtain permits to kill elk to reduce the spread of disease to cattle. Montana Fish and Wildlife commissioners voted unanimously today to allow additional hunters in southern Montana to take up to 250 elk that move near livestock herds from January to April of 2016.

State officials have filed criminal charges against a man accused of scamming investors into giving him more than $24,000 to produce a cowboy documentary he said would be narrated by Clint Eastwood. Deputy Securities Commissioner Lynne Egan says just over $200 remained when the state froze Matthew McClintock's bank accounts.

State wildlife officials have relocated a female grizzly bear that was responsible for killing domestic sheep east of Avon. USDA Wildlife Services captured the bear on Monday near the site of Sunday's livestock depredation. The 271-pound grizzly had no prior history of killing livestock.
 

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