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Morning Newscast 06-10-15

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

On this morning's newscast: Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks game wardens are seeking information on a black bear poached just south of St. Regis. Anyone with information about this poaching is encouraged to call 1-800-TIP-MONT.

A federal judge is scheduled to hear arguments today over whether a Louisiana company should be allowed to drill for natural gas on land near Glacier National Park that is considered sacred to the Blackfeet Indians.

A man who prostituted his 17-year-old girlfriend faces 10 years in jail if he violates his probation.

An Army veteran has been sentenced to 80 years in prison for slashing the throat of a former Marine during a drunken argument over which branch of the military was better.

The sister of a man killed by federal and local law enforcement outside a Montana hospital says she believes he was working as a drug informant for authorities at the time of his death. Forty-eight-year-old John Marshall of Billings was shot by a group of six officers outside Billings Clinic on Jan. 30.

Detectives are trying to piece together the story behind a family fight that led a Deer Lodge area man to kill his wife and three children Sunday morning, before turning the gun on himself. Law enforcement officers say the man told an acquaintance that he shot his family at their one-room cabin because his wife had been mocking him.

The rainbow-colored pride flag for the LGBT community flying at Montana Veterans Affairs headquarters has sparked some debate.

A 30-year-old Utah man has drowned while trying to "river surf" in northwestern Montana, just west of Glacier National Park.

A Missoula woman died and two people were injured after a car went off a Forest Service road southwest of Missoula and rolled down an embankment.

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