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Morning Newscast 07-07-15

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

On today's morning newscast: the office of the Commissioner of Higher Education is returning to the Montana Supreme Court to appeal a district judge's ruling ordering it to release information on any action the commissioner took after Montana quarterback Jordan Johnson appealed a university court recommendation he be expelled over a rape complaint.

A northwestern Montana woman is charged with mailing a loaded gun, ammunition and other weapons to U.S. Sen. Jon Tester.

Yellowstone County officials have released the name of a 32-year-old man who was killed in a fireworks accident in Billings on July 4 as Nathan Vannatta.

Two Butte churches that have been open for more than 100 years are closing their doors for good.

A strong thunderstorm that blew across northern Montana brought strong winds and large hail that caused property and crop damage and power outages along a 300-mile stretch of the state from Cut Bank to Fort Peck.

Eager Montana university scientists and researchers who submitted proposals to use the $15 million set aside by the 2015 legislature for research should start hearing if they made the cut next week.

A strong thunderstorm that blew across northern Montana brought strong winds and large hail that caused property and crop damage and power outages along a 300-mile stretch of the state from Cut Bank to Fort Peck.

Authorities say the vehicle and a prosthetic knee of a North Dakota woman who went missing almost four years ago have been found in Idaho.

The Glacier Rim fire south of Glacier National Park slopped over fire lines due to high winds on July fourth, but firefighters made progress yesterday thanks to cooler weather and higher humidity.

A wildfire in northern Idaho has destroyed at least six homes and forced about 300 residents in the upscale lakeside community of Bayview to evacuate as it ballooned to more than 3 square miles yesterday.

A senior official in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management faces sentencing in federal court today for covering up for a subordinate who kept drawing government pay after leaving the agency for a job in Montana.

Homeowners are getting property value notices in the mail from the department of revenue as officials prepare to calculate tax bills for the first half of the fiscal year.

Judge Ted O. Lympus is retiring early this summer, ending a 23-year stint on the bench that made him the longest-sitting district court judge in Flathead County.

Two people were killed and four were injured in a head-on crash on U.S. 310 in south-central Montana.

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