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Morning Newscast 07-21-15

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

On today's morning newscast: a Kalispell man accused of making online threats to schools and religious leaders before stocking up on guns at his home has been released from jail.

Gov. Steve Bullock yesterday signed onto a joint state and federal plan to provide incentives for farmers and ranchers to preserve sage grouse habitats on their lands.

Fire officials in Helena say a fast moving wildfire that broke out west of town yesterday evening and burned about 75 acres was mostly under control as of 10 o'clock last night. 

A man who assaulted a former Wall Street Journal and Missoulian reporter costing him the sight in one of his eyes has been sentenced to 20 years in prison with five years suspended.

A Missoula company has won 1.5 million in XPRIZE money for developing a pair of sensors for measuring ocean acidification.

A Troy area man died after falling off a cliff near the west fork of the Yaak River.

One of the states largest farming groups is supporting a voluntary effort to bolster the population of sage grouse, whose number has fallen 30 percent since the '80s.

Jefferson County has completed its 21-month investigation into an allegation of jail rape, this 11 days after a former inmate sued.

Creditors from the bankruptcy of Montana's Yellowstone Club has asked an appeals court to keep the resource founder in jail.

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