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Train derailment in northern Montana spills freight, but hazmat car safe

A train derailment in northern Montana spilled freight and left 25 cars tangled up along a major east-west railroad corridor

The Independent UK

Tar balls are being found 100 miles downstream from Yellowstone River train derailment

Tar balls have shown up 100 miles downstream of a railroad bridge collapse last month that sent numerous tank cars carrying petroleum products plummeting into Montana’s Yellowstone River,

The Independent UK

Police arrested a man in a fatal stabbing. Then they found a teen’s body in his fridge.

Brandon Sanders, of West Ridge, has only been charged with one of the murders as detectives scrutinize his background, which includes an arrest in Montana for allegedly pushing his wife into sex work.

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A plan to cut Montana’s Medicaid waiting list was met with bipartisan cheers. Then a veto

Montana state Sen. Becky Beard thought she’d found a fix for a shortage of assisted living care options for Montanans who can’t afford to pay for it themselves — a shortage she became aware of while searching for a suitable place for her mother to live.

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Censure Cases Surge In State Legislatures, Reaching Record High In 2023

Six state lawmakers face censure, accounting for 19.3% of tracked cases this year, the second-highest in history.

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In the 90s, we worried about Nirvana ‘selling out’. I wish that concept still made sense

Big data has helped the music industry sell us only what we already like – but the results are less alive and less surprising, says Montana-based writer Dan Brooks

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Ohio Proposal 1 is one of five bills or resolutions passed in 2023 that could make the initiative process more difficult

Ohio Issue 1 would make several changes to the state’s citizen-initiated constitutional amendment process, including enacting a 60% vote threshold and expanding the signature distribution requirement. Issue 1, as a constitutional amendment, is on the ballot for voters to decide on Aug. 8. The Ohio State Legislature referred Issue 1…

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With more people giving birth at home, Montana passed a pair of laws to make it easier

Ashley Jones’ three children were born in three different places — a hospital, a birth center, and at home.

Tribune News Service

Minnesota and Wisconsin issue air quality alerts amid a new round of Canada smoke

Parts of the Midwest are seeing unhealthy air quality this weekend, including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana and the Dakotas. It can be most dangerous for kids, older people and other sensitive groups.

WEKU

Montana Republican Senate candidate criticized for racist Facebook posts

Surfacing of old posts threatens to damage reputation of Tim Sheehy, one of party’s leading hopes to take control of Senate

The Guardian - US

Biden's Flip-Flop on Warrantless Surveillance

Plus: Montanans challenge ban on drag story hour, Arizona approves birth control without a prescription, and more...

Reason

Montana Democrat Monica Tranel seeks rematch against US Rep. Ryan Zinke

Montana Democrat Monica Tranel is seeking to challenge U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke in 2024 after losing a close contest last year to the former Trump administration Cabinet member

The Independent UK

'Idiots,' 'criminals' and 'scum' -- nasty politics highest in US since the Civil War

Joe Biden, “together with a band of his closest thugs, misfits and Marxists, tried to destroy American democracy.”

The Conversation

Montana LGBT+ advocates sue state over ‘Frankenstein’s monster’ drag ban

The broadly written law amounts to a ‘calculated’ attack against LGBT+ people and unconstitutionally threatens ‘personal, artistic and political expression and speech,’ plaintiffs allege

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Wolverines are the ‘embodiment of wilderness’. Can they make a US comeback?

The animal had largely disappeared from the country, but the years-long debate over its recovery is coming to a head

The Independent UK

Transgender woman, bookstore, teacher sue over Montana law banning drag reading events

A transgender woman, the owners of an independent bookstore and an educator who teaches in costume are among those challenging Montana's first-in-the-nation law that bans people dressed in drag from reading to children in public schools or libraries

The Independent UK

TikTok and 5 content creators ask federal judge to block Montana from banning app

TikTok and a group of five content creators who are suing the state of Montana over its first-in-the-nation law to ban the video sharing app are now asking a federal judge to block implementation of the law while the case moves through the courts

The Independent UK

Cleanup begins after asphalt binder spill into Montana's Yellowstone River after train derailment

Witnesses report seeing globs of asphalt binder that spilled into Montana's Yellowstone River during a bridge collapse and train derailment on islands and the riverbanks a week after the spill

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Health clinic in Montana Superfund town faces penalties for false asbestos claims

A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination faces millions of dollars in penalties after a jury found it submitted 337 false asbestos claims to the U.S. government

Tribune News Service

Texas nun is accused of having sex with a priest. Here’s what we’ve learned about him

FORT WORTH, Texas — The priest identified in a recorded interview as the man with whom a nun from Arlington broke her chastity vow is from North Carolina and recently spent time in Montana contemplating his vocation, according to Catholic officials.

Tribune News Service

Alaska to receive most per-capita aid in broadband funding rollout

WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration’s long-awaited allocation of high-speed internet funding will give 19 states at least $1 billion each in federal aid from a 2021 infrastructure law, with Alaska, West Virginia, Wyoming and Montana leading the list in per capita aid.

The Independent UK

Railroad says Superfund town's health clinic submitted false medical claims

A major railroad company is trying to convince a federal jury that a Montana clinic submitted hundreds of asbestos claims for people who weren’t sick and bilked taxpayer funds

Tribune News Service

Nun accused of sex with priest said she had fallen in love, Fort Worth diocese official says

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Carmelite nun told the vicar general of the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth that she had fallen in love with a priest and would need to leave the order and devote her life to prayer, according to testimony during a court hearing Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Federal board sides with Navajo coal company, says BNSF Railway must ship to Canadian port

A federal board has ordered BNSF Railway to transport at least 4.2 million tons of coal from a Montana mine to a port in Canada this year

The Independent UK

Former Navy SEAL seeks GOP nod to challenge Montana Democratic US Sen. Tester in 2024

Former U.S. Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy says he will seek the 2024 Republican nomination to challenge Montana U.S. Sen. Jon Tester as the Democrat tries to secure a fourth term

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