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Morning Newscast 03-26-15

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

On this edition of Montana Morning Newscast, the Veterans Administration has made a change that should make it easier for Montana vets to get health care.

Montana senators have endorsed the only surviving bill to raise highway speed limits.

State and federal regulators say the response to a 30,000 gallon oil spill into Montana's Yellowstone River is shifting from emergency crude recovery to long-term monitoring and remediation.

The last-standing Medicaid expansion bill in the Montana Legislature has had a second hearing after it stalled in a different committee.

A bill to fund charter schools has passed out of the Montana House Education Committee.

A 74 year old Darby area man drowned in the Bitterroot River after the boat he and two others were in struck a submerged log, throwing all three men into the river.

Critics of a Montana “religious freedom” bill say that the measure would actually promote discrimination, even anarchy, if it’s passed.

A transient has admitted killing a Butte man at a southwestern Montana campground last summer.

A 73 year old man who a judge said seemed unwilling to accept the reality that he lost his western Montana ranch in a 1979 divorce has been sentenced to 75 years in prison for intimidating and stalking the current owners.

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