Evening Newscast 07-20-16

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MTPR Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

A District Court Judge is declaring wins for both the Flathead Valley irrigators who sued to overturn the water compact with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, and the state of Montana, that’s defending the compact after it passed the state legislature last year.

A federal judge has sentenced a Montana man to 18 months in prison for digging ponds on land that was not his, and violating the federal Clean Water Act.

Authorities are investigating whether a fire that burned more than a square mile of farmland north of Great Falls was arson. 

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to stop a logging project in the Kootenai National Forest in northwestern Montana.

A magistrate judge has accepted the plea deal of one of five people accused of playing a part in a drug-smuggling scheme at Montana State Prison.

Federal prosecutors allege a Minnesota man stole more than $2 million from investors hoping to make money off the oil boom in the Bakken region.

A lightning-caused fire in Wyoming is blocking a route to Yellowstone National Park and the area around Jackson Hole.

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