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Morning Newscast 06-05-15

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

On this morning's newscast: Congressman Ryan Zinke has introduced a forest management reform bill that he says would prevent unnecessary litigation, improve forest health and help prevent wildfires.

A vote on a labor agreement affecting more than 900 workers at Montana's largest mining company has been postponed. Stillwater operates the only two platinum and palladium mines in the U.S. southwest of Billings. It employs roughly 1,600 people.

A 17-year-old high school student from Whitefish is proposing a ballot initiative to allow teachers with concealed weapons permits to carry guns on school grounds.

A transient man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison as an accessory to a murder on Montana's Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation.

A Missoula hail storm brought more than bad weather for a family of ospreys in Hellgate Canyon along Clark Fork River. The Missoulian reports that University of Montana ornithologist Erick Greene says all three of the osprey's eggs were cracked in the storm.

Insurance companies across the country are saying they underestimated how much they'd have to pay out in claims in 2014, the first full year that Americans have been required to have health coverage under the federal Affordable Care Act.

The five plaintiffs challenging Bozeman's non-discrimination ordinance will argue their case in court this morning.

Missoula officials say a court clerk's resignation this week isn't related to altered documents that were part of a DUI investigation.

A Crow Agency man has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for raping and assaulting a woman who had picked him up while he was hitchhiking.

A man killed in a crash involving three vehicles north of Kalispell on U.S. Highway 2 has been identified as 18-year-old Daniel J. Trenk of Coram.

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