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  • Double jeopardy is prohibited by law.
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  • Those scratch-and-sniff cards the energy company sends to customers to teach them to recognize the artificial smell added to natural gas? Turns out they work pretty well.
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  • At Montana State University, final exams stress is going to the dogs.
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montana, animals, dogs, students, bizarre bazaar
  • A Great Falls man who lost his macaw in a divorce more than five years ago has been reunited with the bird, thanks to an observant friend.
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montana, animals, pets, divorce, bizarre bazaar
  • A Montana man whose 12-year-old golden retriever ate five $100 bills hopes to be reimbursed by the federal government.
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montana, animals, dogs, dumb criminals, money, bizarre bazaar
  • So the goat that walked into a Montana bar last weekend ... was stolen from a petting zoo.
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  • Action News
  • A Montana man accused of waterboarding four children as a learning experience for them has reached a plea deal with prosecutors in which he will receive probation.
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montana, national/world
  • A northwestern Montana man shot and killed the host of the Sportsman Channel show "A Rifleman's Journal" while the TV personality was visiting the shooter's wife, police said Friday.
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montana, shooting, national/world
  • Celebrity photographer David LaChapelle has been sued for $1 million by a Montana gallery director who claims he beat and choked him.
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  • A Montana television station's regular programming was interrupted by news of a zombie apocalypse.
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  • A Montana man whose tearful reluctance to rob a pizza restaurant earned him free food apparently made up the sob story that gained him the clerk's sympathy.
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  • A man who apparently summoned the courage to rob a Montana pizza restaurant changed his mind as the clerk started to hand him money, broke down crying and ended up leaving with a pizza to feed his hungry family.
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  • Action News
  • A standoff ended with the death of a handcuffed burglary suspect who hit a Montana police officer with his own patrol car before the officer opened fire, authorities said.
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montana, police, standoff, national/world
  • A man napping in a Montana cornfield was startled out of his snooze when he was run over by a large harvesting machine - and Yellowstone County deputies say he's lucky to be alive.
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montana, farming, bizarre bazaar
  • Action News
  • A man who was apparently trying to provoke reports of a Bigfoot sighting in northwestern Montana was struck by two cars and killed.
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  • Cows
  • A construction worker who tried to help Billings police corral a runaway cow earlier this week said the bovine charged at him "like a bull at a rodeo" and threw him into the air.
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  • When Sara Weaver saw her father Randy struck in the shoulder by a government sniper's bullet in the Idaho wilderness in August 1992, she began to sprint back to the family's cabin on a hilltop called Ruby Ridge.
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  • Rape Charges
  • Suspended University of Montana quarterback Jordan Johnson has pleaded not guilty to raping a woman.
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  • Train derailment
  • Officials say 16 rail cars caught fire and six exploded after a freight train derailed in an unpopulated area of eastern Montana, sending at least one fiery mushroom cloud into the sky.
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montana, train accident, national/world
  • The folks at Hi-Noon Petroleum in Montana have a new way to turn a dinosaur into gasoline.
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  • A 200-pound black bear that swiped some blankets and pillows from a western Montana cabin to line his makeshift den in the cabin's crawl space has moved on.
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  • A notorious "mountain man" who abducted a world-class athlete in 1984 to keep as a wife for his son faces a parole board Friday that will want to see more far more contrition than he has showed in the past.
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montana, national/world
  • Police in Montana say ex-NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf broke into an acquaintance's home and stole a bottle of prescription painkillers.
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  • Action News
  • Investigators knew early on that three Montana children reported missing in August had been living with their father and stepmother on a sailboat in the Bahamas, but could do nothing because of an arduous extradition process, police in Montana said.
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  • A body found buried in North Dakota was identified Thursday as a Montana high school teacher who was abducted while jogging more than two months ago, the FBI said.
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  • A Montana judge has granted a restraining order that blocks further relocations of Yellowstone National Park bison following objections from ranchers and property rights groups.
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  • Montana's chief federal judge said Wednesday that he forwarded an email that contained a joke involving bestiality and President Barack Obama's mother, but he did so because he dislikes the president and not because he's racist.
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  • A 55-year-old Montana man who says he "always wanted" to be part of a police chase can check that off his bucket list.
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  • A 250-pound man with a history of jumping on the backs of student athletes in the Pacific Northwest has pleaded guilty to assault.
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  • What do you get when you string shotgun shells on Christmas lights?
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montana, christmas, holidays, bizarre bazaar
  • A federal appeals court says the decline of a food source for grizzly bears in the Yellowstone region is sufficient reason to keep the animals protected under the Endangered Species Act.
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  • Wildlife advocates are due in federal court Tuesday seeking an injunction to stop gray wolf hunts already well under way in the Northern Rockies.
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  • A Montana woman says she knows it sounds mean, but she hopes her horse at least tried to kick the person that cut the hair off her tail.
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  • The Obama administration is taking steps to extend new federal protections to a list of imperiled animals and plants that reads like a manifest for Noah's Ark - from the melodic golden-winged warbler and slow-moving gopher tortoise, to the slimy American eel and tiny Texas kangaroo rat.
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montana, environment, wildlife preservation, animals
  • A 10-year-old Montana boy fishing with a rubber worm caught a largemouth bass that state wildlife officials say could be nearly twice as old as he is.
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  • Federal officials still remain unsure how many Exxon pipelines carrying hazardous fuels cross the nation's rivers and streams, nor can they say how deeply those pipelines are buried.
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  • The state of Montana has cut its ties to a joint Exxon Mobil-government command post overseeing an oil spill along the Yellowstone river.
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  • Authorities struggled Sunday to gauge the environmental and crop damage from tens of thousands of gallons of oil that spilled into the legendary Yellowstone River, as Montana's governor criticized Exxon Mobil for downplaying the scope of the disaster.
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  • A Montana resident says an energy company has identified the cause of a brief power outage as "deer with wings."
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  • Montana communities took advantage of a break in rainy weather to clear flood debris from homes and roadways as states downstream prepared for floodwaters from the higher elevations and releases from their own burgeoning dams.
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montana, flooding, national/world
  • Cow-a-bunga! A black Angus cow in Montana is the proud mother of triplet calves.
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montana, farming, wildlife preservation, animals
  • It's certainly not the way most brides start off married life. A 20-year-old Montana woman has admitted using her future father-in-law's credit card to ring up nearly $6,000 in unauthorized charges, including for things for her wedding.
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montana, money, bizarre bazaar
  • A majority of N.J. voters support legal sports betting at Atlantic City casinos and at N.J. horse tracks.
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new jersey, gambling, nevada, las vegas, delaware, montana, oregon, inside politics
  • Walter Breuning, the world's oldest man and second-oldest person, died Thursday. He was 114.
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montana, national/world
  • A RadioShack in Montana is offering would-be satellite television customers more bang for their buck.
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  • Meet the woman whose home-based business is one huge recycling bin.
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  • The "Code of the West" could become the law of the land in Montana.
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  • A Montana man who took exception to someone else giving his dog a biscuit faces a misdemeanor assault charge.
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  • Five years after a Montana cow dubbed the "Unsinkable Molly B" leaped a slaughterhouse gate in an escape that brought international acclaim, the heifer has again eluded fate, surviving the collapse of the animal sanctuary where she was meant to retire.
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montana, wildlife preservation, animals