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As of Tuesday morning, 60% of Montana’s absentee ballots have already been returned.

It was a day for press conferences both locally and statewide, as Governor Steve Bullock provided another update from Helena.

To slow the rapid spread of COVID 19, as of Thursday at 8:00 a.m. the Missoula City County Health Department will restrict business capacity to 50 percent, limit group gatherings to 25, cease serving alcohol at 10:00 p.m. and there will be a voluntary stay at home order.

One man mentioned by name at the press conference on Monday that revealed the killer of five year-old Siobhan McGuinness in 1974 was now retired Missoula Police Detective Dean Chrestenson.

As of Tuesday morning, Montana has confirmed 29,346 positive COVID-19 cases.

46 year-old cold case child murder solved through DNA evidence. Five year-old Siobhan McGuinness was killed by Richard William Davis in 1974. Davis died in 2012.

On Monday, Montana Congressman Greg Gianforte appeared on KGVO’s Montana Morning Show to discuss the upcoming election.

On Monday, U.S. Senator Steve Daines appeared on KGVO's Montana Morning Show and he discussed a variety of different topics.

University of Montana Police reported a second black bear sighting on Sunday. 9-1-1 reported the sighting that occurred near the UM tennis courts.

Potomac Montana was the coldest spot in the contiguous United States over the weekend, and the Missoula office of the National Weather Service took notice

Missoula City County Health Officer Ellen Leahy and her fellow department heads have been seeing a rapidly growing incidence of COVID 19 infections in various age groups over the past weeks, and are preparing a press briefing set for Tuesday.

46 years ago, on February 4, 1974 at about 6:30 PM, a 5-year-old girl was reported missing in the 500 block of N. 2nd St. W. Then, on February 7, 1974 at about 3:30 p.m., the child’s body was discovered in a drain culvert near the Turah exit from Interstate 90