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Evening Newscast 10-19-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
Montana Evening News

Montana's attorney general will issue a legal opinion on a Missoula ordinance requiring background checks for private gun sales.

A Lincoln County official is asking a federal judge to strike down a Montana law that bars nonpartisan candidates from campaigning as Democrats or Republicans.

US Attorney’s Office in Montana will sponsor a conference on the opiate or heroin epidemic that has gripped other parts of the country at Montana State University’s Bozeman campus Thursday, Oct. 20.

The University of Montana has notified students of a reported sexual assault that occurred in a residence hall involving someone the victim knew.

Scientists say oil and gas development in the Western U.S. could continue to cause sage grouse numbers to decline, despite limits on drilling meant to protect the species.

Washington State University's planned medical school has received preliminary accreditation.

With measureable snowfall already dusting parts of the Rocky Mountains and Northwest, the 2016 wildfire season has wrapped up in much of the West.

The Commission on Sentencing is recommending lawmakers close a loophole in child sex abuse sentencing laws that allowed an eastern Montana man to be put on probation after pleading guilty to raping his 12-year-old daughter.

Dinosaurs have become an issue in Montana's race for governor.

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