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Morning Newscast 10-21-15

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

The Land Board has approved a settlement in a decades-­long dispute over how much to charge for cabin sites on state-­owned land.

The Chippewa Cree tribe is considering banishing convicted drug dealers from the Rocky Boy's Reservation.

Sugar beet farmers in northeastern Montana are seeing a record sugar crop this year.

The U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled unanimously that Mexico hurt farmers in this country by dumping heavily subsidized sugar on U.S. markets.

Montana's economy has outpaced the national economy for years and the latest unemployment numbers show there's no sign of that trend slowing down.

Attorneys for the state are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Billings man who wants to legally marry a second wife that challenges Montana's bigamy laws.

Montana's seasonally­-adjusted unemployment rate dropped slightly in September to 4.1 percent, compared to the revised August estimate of 4.2 percent.

The Public Service Commission plans to look at how NorthWestern Energy's purchase of hydroelectric dams affects the company's taxes and, therefore, the rates it charges its customers.

A 14-year-old girl who was the subject of a missing endangered persons advisory has returned home on her own.

A Great Falls boy suffered life­-threatening injuries when he was struck by a car while riding his bicycle.

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