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Evening Newscast 08-19-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On tonight's evening newscast: Authorities in Sanders County have ordered the evacuation of 14 homes threatened by fires burning in the Kootenai National Forest north of Noxon.

State Air Quality Monitors are showing unhealthy conditions in Hamilton and Libby at this hour, in Seeley Lake the air is being called unhealthy for sensitive groups.

Former University of Montana football player Beau Donaldson, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for raping an acquaintance in 2010, has been moved to the state's boot camp program.

Two teens died and two others were injured in a rollover crash on U.S. Highway 87 in central Montana.

 

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