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Montana Morning State News Headlines for Tuesday, May 15
1,350 volunteers fill 74.000 sandbags with 1,480 tons of sand in response to Clark Fork River flooding in Missoula.
A look back at Missoula's worst ever disaster, the flood of 1908, and how the flood of 2018 will compare.
18 year-old Polson man dies after slipping on wet rocks and falling from Mud Lake Falls near Pablo on Saturday.
Sunny and warm in western Montana today, with highs near 80.
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