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Morning Newscast 03-03-15

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

On this edition of Montana Morning Newscast,Governor Steve Bullock’s Medicaid expansion plan gets its first hearing at the state legislature Friday, and that has groups for and against it trying to rally support.

This weekend dozens of people gathered in Great Falls, Missoula and Kalispell to show support for Medicaid expansion in Montana.

A former girls' basketball coach at Lone Peak High School in Big Sky who is accused of raping two of his players will remain jailed on $750,000 bail.

Civil rights attorneys are due in federal court today to argue that hundreds of racist emails from Montana's former Chief U.S. District Judge should be preserved as potential evidence in future lawsuits.

Two proposals to expand Medicaid in Montana would have drastically different outcomes on state finances.

A Kalispell man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 15 year old daughter on Christmas Day 2010 has died after being found unresponsive in his cell at the Crossroads Correctional Center in Shelby.

The U.S. Department of Justice's inspector general is honoring the Montana U.S. Attorney's Office for its work to weed out fraud involving federally funded programs on Indian reservations.

Greg Gianforte, the founder of Bozeman start-up RightNow Technologies, is donating $1 million to Montana State University to help the school educate more computer science majors.

Butte's American Legion baseball teams, the "Miners" and "Muckers", are well on their way to a new facility thanks to major financial donations announced this week.

Trappers killed 77 gray wolves in Montana during the 2014-2015 season that ended over the weekend.

A 74 year old Libby man has denied charges that allege he shot another man to death in his living room, covering his body with a blue blanket and not calling law enforcement.

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