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Morning Newscast 10-01-15

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

The Montana Department of Labor and Industry reports that one fewer worker died from a work-­related injury last year than in 2013.

A hiker in Glacier National Park was grabbed and shaken by a grizzly bear yesterday.

The annual fall raptor migration through Montana is well under way.

Missoula’s Neptune Aviation has won the largest of three contracts to supply next­generation air tankers to the U­S Forest Service to fight fires.

The Land and Water Conservation Fund was not included in a funding bill that prevented a government shutdown yesterday.

The trial is under way for a man charged with striking and killing a deputy during a high- speed pursuit.

U.S Senator Steve Daines is co­sponsoring legislation to secure permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

Two members of the Montana Board of Pardons and Parole have denied parole to a man who shot and killed two Montana State University students in 1990.

Air quality in Thompson Falls is very unhealthy this morning, and unhealthy in Libby.

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