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Morning Newscast 08-20-15

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

On today's morning newscast: evacuations have been ordered for homes near the Napoleon fire, that’s burning on about 21-hundred acres near the western Montana state line. The evacuation order is for houses along Highway 56 between mileposts 8 and 14.

The National Weather Service has issued a fire weather watch for Friday for much of western Montana, stretching from the Deerlodge/Beaverhead National Forest, through the Bitterroot valley and the northwest corner of the state.

A former University of Montana football player who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for raping an acquaintance in 2010 has been moved to the state's boot camp program.

Three teenagers are dead and a fourth is injured after a rollover crash on U.S. Highway 87 in central Montana.

Those driving through Montana should notice more law enforcement on highways as the Highway Patrol increases patrols. The Montana Standard reports it's part of a national crackdown on drunk driving over Labor Day weekend.

Montana Department of Justice officials say it will take a court order for them to release the results of a review of a former medical examiner's autopsies on infants and young children.

The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that denied Carlyle Group's request to stop the evaluation process of Mountain Water Co., which the city of Missoula is trying to take ownership of.

The state of Montana has now canceled issued a missing and endangered person alert for a 13-year-old Butte girl who was reportedly taken from her residence by her non-custodial mother.

This summer's massive fires have strained resources across the West to the point that wildfire managers are being forced to let some fires burn unchecked. That has renewed a longstanding debate about whether it is better to fight a fire or just let it burn out.

Montana officials are reviewing a proposal that aims to put global warming mitigation to a statewide vote in 2016.

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