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HAZARDOUS WEATHER: Warning issued along Rocky Mountain Front and SW Montana

The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook for the Rocky Mountain Front and a large swatch of north-central and southwestern Montana.

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Wyoming challenges Yellowstone snowmobile rules

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The state of Wyoming has filed a new federal lawsuit seeking to block the National Park Service from restricting snowmobile numbers in Yellowstone National Park.

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Baucus plans to vote for Senate health care bill

HELENA - U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, back in Montana on family business, intends to vote in favor of the Senate health care bill when it reaches a crucial weekend test in Washington D.C.

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Little demand for swine flu vaccines in Bozeman

BOZEMAN - Gallatin County health officials are stumped as to why there was so little demand for swine flu shots at a recent clinic.

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Labor Department: State unemployment rate drops

HELENA - Montana's unemployment rate dropped to 6.4 percent in October, spurred by both a positive sign - job growth - and a negative indication that some unemployed workers are getting discouraged and leaving the labor force.

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Montana Western professor recognized for school's block scheduling system

DILLON - Montana Western environmental sciences professor Rob Thomas has received a national award for his work in implementing a block scheduling system at the school.

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Applied Materials launches its tender offer to buy Kalispell's Semitool

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Applied Materials Inc. has launched its $364 million tender offer to buy all the outstanding shares of Montana-based Semitool Inc.

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Bozeman hauls more snow after Nov. 12 storm than in all of last winter

BOZEMAN - Bozeman officials say the city hauled more snow out of town after a storm earlier this month than it did over the entire course of last winter.

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Billings woman given suspended sentence for role in toddler's death

BILLINGS - The last of three people charged in the death of a 3-year-old Billings boy was given a 10-year suspended prison sentence Thursday for criminal endangerment and must pay about $10,000 in restitution.

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FRIDAY'S WEATHER: Nice day, but snowy weekend is on the way!

Happy Friday, western Montana! The workweek will end with a relatively mild day, with highs of 50 in Missoula, 51 in Hamilton, 49 in Kalispell and 48 in Polson.

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5-year-old Stevensville boy dies in farm tractor accident

A 5-year-old boy was killed Thursday afternoon when he fell from a farm tractor on Grandview Drive north of Stevensville, according to officials with the Ravalli County Sheriff's Office.

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Stevensville rancher killed by Black Angus bull while loading trailer

A 78-year-old Stevensville man was killed Wednesday when a Black Angus bull charged him, according to officials with the Ravalli County Sheriff's Department.

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Darby man gets 13 months at sentencing for sixth DUI

HAMILTON - A 42-year-old Darby man with an extensive record of breaking traffic laws was sentenced to a 13-month commitment with the Montana Department of Corrections for his sixth DUI Thursday.

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Montana youth healthier than peers in U.S., but almost half in struggling families, study finds

HELENA - First, the good news, and, thankfully, there's a lot of it:

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Judge Molloy: Keep grizzly bears on threatened species list

BILLINGS - A judge says the government must keep Yellowstone-area grizzly bears on the list of threatened and endangered species, denying an attempt by federal officials to reverse an earlier court ruling.

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Study: Montana's richest pay less in taxes than low-, middle-income families

HELENA - Montana's low- and middle-income families pay a larger share of their income in state and local taxes, on average, than do the state's richest households, a new national study concludes.

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Man arrested in fatal rollover crash near Havre

GREAT FALLS - A 40-year-old Havre man accused of driving drunk and causing a one-vehicle rollover crash that killed his passenger has been arrested on charges of vehicular homicide.

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Montana, federal officials more tolerant of bison leaving Yellowstone, report says

BILLINGS - Federal and state officials are drafting new strategies to deal with bison coming out of Yellowstone National Park, but still don't have an alternative to periodic slaughters of the iconic Western animal.

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Fort Belknap spiritual leader says tribes losing traditions

BILLINGS - A spiritual leader from the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation says many tribes are losing their language and religious traditions as older members die.

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Laurel vet cemetery eyed for national use

BILLINGS - The Yellowstone County Veterans Cemetery is being pushed as a potential national cemetery to be maintained by the federal government.

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Regulators sign off on loan for Montana-Alberta power line

BILLINGS - Federal regulators have signed off on a $161 million loan to a Canadian company that's building a 214-mile power transmission line between Alberta and Montana.

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Colorado deputy seeks dismissal of suit in Sheridan man's death

DENVER - Attorneys for an Arapahoe County sheriff's deputy who was off duty when he shot and killed a Montana man want a judge to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit against their client, saying he did not use excessive force and was acting in his capacity as an officer.

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Lame Deer man killed in tractor-trailer crash

BILLINGS - The Montana Highway Patrol says a 19-year-old Lame Deer man died when his car struck an oncoming semi tractor-trailer.

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Court: Yellowstone County not responsible for legal defense given man wrongly sent to prison

BILLINGS - Yellowstone County was not responsible for the legal defense provided to Jimmy Ray Bromgard, a former Billings man who spent more than 15 years in state prison for a rape he did not commit, an appellate court ruled Thursday.

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Idaho extends wolf hunt for three more months

BOISE, Idaho - Hunters will have three more months to hunt wolves in Idaho.

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