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Billings

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  Mont. man in custody after release in 1979 slaying

  The three-decade fight for freedom by a Montana man convicted of the 1979 slaying of a teenage classmate entered what could be its final stage this ... 

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  Montana company faces fines in fatal bear mauling

  The death of a Montana animal trainer mauled by a pair of 500-pound captive brown bears could have been prevented if standard safety practices had ... 

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  Draft rule ends protections for gray wolves

  Federal wildlife officials have drafted plans to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, a move that could end a decades-long ... 

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  Baucus exit could be free-for-all for Mont. Senate

  U.S. Sen. Max Baucus' surprise announcement that he won't run for a seventh term could mean a free-for-all for a Senate seat that has not been open ... 

• Records: Men accused in fatal Mont. fire lit apron

  A Montana mobile home fire that left four people dead began when two men lit an apron on fire in the kitchen while the victims slept following a ... 

• EPA blamed for delays in asbestos study in Montana

  Internal investigators faulted the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday for years of delays in completing health studies needed to guide the ... 

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  Defiance, tenderness, wariness in wake of Boston

  A Virginia woman makes a point to get out and go jogging. A Texas mom stays in and snuggles her toddler a little closer. A nurse from Massachusetts ... 

• APNewsBreak: $1.7M penalty proposed in Exxon spill

  Federal regulators proposed $1.7 million in civil penalties against Exxon Mobil Corp. on Monday for safety violations linked to a pipeline rupture ... 

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  Yellowstone bison hunt takes most since '89

  Hunters killed more wild bison migrating from Yellowstone National Park this season than they have in decades, with the numbers driven by strong ... 

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  Coal sales investigated by feds; no violations yet

  The U.S. Department of Interior is investigating whether mining companies are skirting royalty rules as they increase exports of coal to Asia, federal ... 

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  APNewsBreak: Feds: Warming imperils wolverines

  The tenacious wolverine, a snow-loving carnivore sometimes called the "mountain devil," could soon join the list of species threatened by climate ... 

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  Senators ask if coal exports skirt royalties

  Lawmakers asked the U.S. Department of Interior on Friday to review whether companies are shortchanging federal and state governments out of millions ... 

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  APNewsBreak: Floods blamed for 16 pipeline spills

  Pipeline spills caused by flooding and riverbed erosion dumped 2.4 million gallons of crude oil and other hazardous liquids into U.S. waterways over ... 

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  APNewsBreak: Feds say delay made oil spill worse

  Delays in Exxon Mobil Corp.'s response to a major pipeline break beneath Montana's Yellowstone River made an oil spill far worse than it otherwise ... 

• Trains carrying more oil across US amid boom

  Energy companies behind the oil boom on the Northern Plains are increasingly turning to an industrial-age workhorse — the locomotive — to move their ... 

• Trains playing major role in Plains oil boom

  Energy companies behind the oil boom sweeping the Northern Plains increasingly are turning to trains to move their crude across the U.S. The move ... 

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  Mont. group collecting paper hearts for Newtown

  It started as a way for one Montana family to talk about the tragic school shooting of 26 children and adults. Now it's blossoming into an ... 

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  Grizzly managers look toward hunts in Rockies

  With bear-human conflicts on the rise, wildlife managers in the Northern Rockies are laying the groundwork for trophy hunts for grizzlies in ...