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Morning Newscast 09-18-15

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

A panel of Montana regulators, industry representatives and conservationists are meeting for the first time on implementing the state's sage grouse conservation plan.

A Missoula County resident is getting a series of rabies shots after being bitten by a rabid skunk.

34 Montana lawmakers have sent a letter to Gov. Steve Bullock saying they support President Barack Obama's plan to cut power plant emissions over the next 15 years.

A U.S. Senate committee is holding a field hearing in Billings today on pipeline safety following spills that fouled a Montana river and the California coast.

A Stevensville woman who is serving a 40?year prison sentence for the hit?and?run death of a pedestrian is asking a judge to allow her to present new evidence she says proves her innocence.

Crews are checking Beartooth Pass this morning to see if they can reopen the highway after blowing and drifting snowfall shut it down.

A 32­-year-­old woman arrested in Billings after she was found in a car with a dead man told officers he wanted to die and she had always wanted to try to kill someone with her bare hands.

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ So far health officials have recorded twelve cases of flu in six Montana counties: Yellowstone, Gallatin, Lewis and Clark, Missoula, Beaverhead, and Broadwater.

Glacier National Park has announced that it will raise its fees for entrance and front?country camping starting in November.

People in Helena are being targeted by scammers who claim the Federal Courts want to arrest them for missing jury duty.

The city of Missoula says the CEO of a Canadian firm seeking to buy the water company that serves the city leaked what was supposed to be a confidential evaluation of the system.

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