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Morning Newscast 04-18-16

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox says the state needs to do more to fight violent crime.

A record number of children in Montana are under state care as a result of drugs.

Fewer Democrats are occupying governors' mansions. That makes the Montana governor's race especially crucial for national Democrats, as they work to re-elect Gov. Steve Bullock and hold a key governorship in rural America.

A 32-year-old Great Falls man has been sentenced to jail time for poaching two bull elk in southwestern Montana in 2012 and 2014.

A Louisiana company is challenging the cancellation of an oil and gas lease in northwest Montana by federal officials who say drilling would disturb an area sacred to the Blackfoot tribes of the U.S. and Canada.

The Stillwater County sheriff's office is conducting an internal investigation after a dispatcher failed to immediately contact local authorities in two traffic cases that resulted in two deaths, including one that may have been preventable.

The Environmental Protection Agency is allowing the public to attend discussions on cleanup liability in Butte, the first time the public is being allowed since secret consent decree talks started nearly 10 years ago.

Conservation groups are praising a recommendation from Bridger-Teton National Forest managers to prevent oil and gas drilling on tens of thousands of acres of the Wyoming Range.

Transportation officials will decide whether to add digital billboard restrictions to outdoor advertising rules.

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