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Morning Newscast 06-11-15

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

On today's morning  newscast: the daughter of the man police hold responsible for Sunday's murder-suicide in a Montana log cabin says her father was in denial about having mental health problems.

Starla Shannon says she's convinced her father, Augustine "Mike" Bournes, had an undiagnosed mental illness that turned dangerous.

A federal appeals court has struck down pollution rules intended to reduce haze in the atmosphere from the burning of coal in Montana for electricity consumed across the Pacific Northwest.

A Montana man on probation for running a scam involving fake children's programs is being investigated for allegations of raising money for a fake documentary.

The Montana Supreme Court has ruled that a person can be charged with driving under the influence for huffing aerosol propellants.

Montana wildlife officials plan to release a long-awaited wild bison study today that contemplates restoring the burly animals to public.

A Billings man, Stephen Santillan, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for fracturing the skull of his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter.

The wife of a Montana man who died in custody says a Shelby prison's staff refused him medical treatment because he was a temporary inmate awaiting a transfer to a federal medical facility.

A 19-year-old Bigfork man has pleaded guilty to criminal endangerment and drunk-driving charges for rear-ending a school bus that had stopped to drop off students.

A Missoula woman died and two people were injured after a car went off a Forest Service road southwest of Missoula and rolled down an embankment.

A tourism research group says visitors spent $3.9 billion in Montana last year.

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