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Morning Newscast 08-14-15

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

On today's morning newscast: Yellowstone National Park officials euthanized a female grizzly bear today yesterday after DNA tests confirmed it attacked and killed a hiker last week. Park spokeswoman Amy Bartlett says the grizzly bear was killed because it had eaten part of the Montana man's body and hid the rest, suggesting that it was not just defending its young.

A northwest Ohio zoo, meanwhile, will take the two cubs of that bear that was killed yesterday. Toledo's The Blade newspaper reports the Toledo Zoo already was planning a brown bear exhibit and agreed to take the female cubs.

A fire north of Lincoln in the Helena National Forest has burned about a square mile and prompted evacuations, but no homes are immediately threatened.

Wyoming brought out the big guns for yesterday's hearing in Gillette on whether to change the royalty program that determines the fees the coal industry must pay to mine on federal public lands.

Delinquent black bears have been causing problems in the Red Lodge area, breaking and entering into vehicles and homes. The Billings Gazette reports that a bear entered and became trapped inside a car last night.

A 59-year-old Eureka man has been reported missing after failing to return from a day hike in the Thunderbolt Mountain area, near the southern tip of Swan Lake.

A Billings man has been sentenced to 110 years in prison for killing a woman while she was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher.

U.S. Senator Jon Tester yesterday threw his support behind the proposed deal to limit Iran’s nuclear program.

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