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Montana Morning State News Headlines for Thursday, December 20
More details on Wednesday morning's fatalities due to black ice on I-90 that closed the highway for several hours.
$50,000 bond for a 20 year-old Missoula man who allegedly sexually assaulted a child in a restaurant bathroom.
Former UM law professor Rob Natelson, in a column for the Daily Caller, is advocating that the federal government divest itself of millions of acres of public land.
Partly sunny and mild in western Montana today, with highs near 40.
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