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Evening Newscast 11-02-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

Six months after Governor Steve Bullock signed Montana’s compromise plan to expand Medicaid, the White House has formally accepted the plan.

The head of the U.S. Forest Service now says he believes that all oil and gas leases in the Badger-Two Medicine area of the Lewis and Clark National Forest should be canceled.

The Missoula County attorney is asking police to further investigate felony burglary allegations against five University of Montana students, including three football players.

Flathead County commissioners have given Sheriff Chuck Curry the authority to house suspects in juvenile cases in Missoula County to address overcrowding in the adult jail.

Montana authorities say a man who escaped from a minimum-security prison in Colorado crashed a stolen vehicle during a high-speed chase on Interstate 90.

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