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Montana Morning State News Headlines for Wednesday, July 17
A stretch of Montana Highway 83 will be dedicated this Friday to the late Trenton Johnson, a Missoula firefighter killed while fighting the Florence Fire in 2017.
Missoula County Clerk and Treasurer Tyler Gernant explains the long wait times in line at the courthouse to register titles for new and used vehicles.
Members of the University of Montana Bureau of Business and Economic Research will be traveling throughout the state late this month to talk about the state's economy.
Partly sunny and windy in western Montana today, with highs near 80.
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