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Morning Newscast 04-05-16

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Morning Newscast

Police officials say a Montana Rail Link worker died in its Missoula rail yard when a train collided with another vehicle.

A lawsuit filed Friday says the government’s authorization for a mine in the Cabinet Mountains could drain surrounding waterways and harm a species of trout protected under federal law.  

Authorities say a 5-year-old girl who was abducted by her mother been found safe North Dakota.

A federal judge says the Obama administration brushed over the threat climate change poses for the snow-loving wolverine when it denied protections for the elusive predator also known as the "mountain devil." U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen on Monday ordered wildlife officials to act as quickly as possible to protect the species as it becomes vulnerable to a warming planet.

Representatives of a man shot and killed after he broke into a Helena home have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the shooter.

President Barack Obama says a World War II veteran and Native American historian "helped shape a fuller history of America" by sharing the stories and culture of his tribe. Obama released a statement Monday following the death of Joseph Medicine Crow, the last surviving war chief of the Crow Tribe in Montana and the first in the tribe to attain a master's degree.

A $3 million renovation to the historic Lake McDonald Lodge at Glacier National Park is under way, marking the first overhaul of the building in nearly 30 years.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspected The Western Sugar Cooperative plant after a 34-year-old worker was found dead inside last October.

Authorities have identified the Montana woman who died after being struck by a vehicle.

Twenty years after the arrest of Ted Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, some residents in the small Montana town of Lincoln remember him as an odd recluse while at least one says he had a good sense of humor.

 

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