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Morning Newscast 06-25-15

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

On today's morning newscast: an analysis of the state's finances last year has revealed 125 errors and a lack of internal controls that could have brought the inaccuracies to light earlier.

A new indictment charges a Havre businessman with bribing the head of the Chippewa Cree tribe's roads department and overcharging the work his company did as part of a $10.6 million federal stimulus grant to the tribe.

Yellowstone County officials are asking state Department of Corrections administrators to move their inmates quickly to help with jail overcrowding.

Farmers and environmentalists are urging Montana regulators to establish buffer zones around residences to protect them from oil and gas drilling.

A former Livingston and Billings West High School teacher and basketball coach has pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting children and distributing child pornography.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval is playing host to nine other Western states' governors and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to try to reach a consensus on regionwide issues such as drought. He's joined by Montana Gov. Steve Bullock and governors of several other states around the West.

Embarrassed officials from the Bullock administration yesterday apologized to state lawmakers for releasing a report that auditors later found contained massive errors.

A Spokane man is facing 10 years in prison under his guilty pleas entered Tuesday on charges that he ran heroin, methamphetamine and women from Washington to the Missoula, area.

Motorcycle daredevil Robbie Knievel says he plans to celebrate his newfound sobriety by jumping over a Butte bar during a festival honoring the legacy of his father, Evel Knievel.

The Supreme Court today upheld the nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, in a ruling that preserves health insurance for millions of Americans.

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