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Evening Newscast 08-15-18

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

A unanimous Montana Supreme Court has rejected a tobacco industry-funded group's request to rewrite the ballot statement of a citizen's initiative to raise the state's tobacco taxes.

The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office has issued an evacuation warning for a small number of residents near Essex just northwest of the Izaak Walton Inn along Highway 2 due to the Paola Ridge Fire.

The Howe Ridge Fire in Glacier National Park that has destroyed multiple structures on the north end of Lake McDonald is now estimated to be 2,600 acres.

Pearl Jam's bassist Jeff Ament said in a statement today that he was the "sole conceptualist" for the poster depicting a burning White House and what appears to be President Donald Trump's skeleton.

Another legal blow has been dealt to the US Forest Service and its plans to thin 5,600 acres near West Yellowstone.

A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a plan for the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings to pay $20 million to 86 people who said clergy sexually assaulted them when they were children.

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