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Morning Newscast 02-12-16

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

This week an environmental group filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in federal court in Missoula, saying that Grizzly bears in the Cabinet-Yaak area of northwest Montana should be listed as endangered species.

A Montana jury has ruled against a woman who sought millions of dollars from health care providers that she said failed to diagnose her unborn daughter's cystic fibrosis.

A Lewis and Clark County jury was unable to reach a verdict in the case of a Helena man charged with shooting and killing a home intruder.

Fire officials say a person who was rescued from a house fire in Billings has died.

Wildlife officials are placing restrictions on elk hunting north of Yellowstone National Park near Gardiner for the next two years.

Two anti-fur activists charged with waging a cross-country vandalism campaign that included Montana have pleaded guilty to federal charges in San Diego.

Gov. Steve Bullock says Weyerhaeuser Co. will relocate certain administrative jobs, but retain hundreds of Montana timber workers and manufacturers employed in Montana.

Montana Supreme Court Chief Justice Mike McGrath filed for re-election yesterday.

The aldermen in Browning voted 2-1 to begin to discorporate the town, but the vote failed because they needed three "yes" votes.

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