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Morning Newscast 12-09-15

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

The superintendent of Missoula County Public Schools says a corrupted computer file led the school to unintentionally release medical and personal information about students in an email to parents who had attended a meeting about the football program at Hellgate High School.

State Representative Art Wittich says Political Practices Commissioner Jonathan Motl is getting desperate in his effort to prove that Wittich committed ethics violations.

A federal judge has ruled that a jury will hear arguments in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of a German exchange student who fell into a tree well while skiing at Whitefish Mountain Resort.

A Kalispell man suspected of making online threats to schools and religious groups is set to go trial in January.

Federal officials say further testing was unable to confirm the presence of E. coli in the onions and celery used to make chicken salad at Costco warehouses across the country.

The state Supreme Court has ruled that the city of Billings, Yellowstone County and the state of Montana are not liable in a fatal 2009 crash.

Montana's elections watchdog alleges that a national anti­-union organization offered a package called "the works" that funded and managed campaign activities for select Republican legislative candidates.

Don't expect a formal delisting proposal to come out of this week's meeting of state and federal grizzly bear experts in Missoula.

The Yellowstone County Commission voted unanimously to hire a full­time Disaster and Emergency Services Director.

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