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Morning Newscast 01-13-16

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

A state judge re-opened a case yesterday contesting whether state regulators have jurisdiction in the sale of the water system that serves the city of Missoula.

 

The state Board of Livestock has appointed a new executive officer of the Department of Livestock. Mike Honeycutt was appointed yesterday  to administer, protect, promote and regulate the state's livestock industry.

A jury has convicted a Billings man of shooting his neighbor to death in 2013.

Freezing Rain has been reported throughout Western Montana this morning. Alberton schools are running two hours late due to the conditions. Road condition updates can be found at mtpr.org.

A deal to keep an underground coal mine operating in central Montana includes a secret side settlement between an environmental group and the mine's owner.

Criminal patients at the overcrowded Montana State Hospital will soon be moved to a secure mental health facility.

 

Authorities say two police officers shot a man during a confrontation in a residential neighborhood northwest of Kalispell.

The remains of an Anaconda man have been positively identified nearly 75 years after he was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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