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		<title>Missoula man dead after apparently hitting tree while skateboarding</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana officials say a 20-year-old man has died after slamming into a tree while skateboarding alone.

Sgt. Tony Rio of the Missoula County Sheriff&#8217;s Department says the man was skateboarding with a group of friends along a road Friday night and stayed behind when they left. When the man missed a wedding the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crow war chief to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom for his scholarship, war exploits</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — A 95-year-old Crow Indian who went into battle wearing war paint beneath his World War II uniform and later emerged as an acclaimed Native American historian will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom next month.

Joe Medicine Crow will receive the nation&#8217;s highest civilian honor from President Obama on Aug. 12, along with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian company acquiring Crow&#8217;s coal-to-liquids partner, Australian execs retain control</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — A Canadian company is acquiring the Australian energy firm that has proposed a $7.4 billion coal-to-liquids plant on Montana&#8217;s Crow Indian Reservation.

The Australian Energy Co. last year signed an agreement with Crow leaders to develop an estimated 900-million-ton coal reserve on the reservation.
Now Vancouver-based Terra Nova Minerals Inc. is putting up an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congressman wants hearing on GM&#8217;s cancellation of metals contract with Montana mining company</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — A Montana congressman wants a hearing into General Motors Co.&#8217;s continued use of foreign precious metals suppliers after canceling a contract with a Montana company.

GM last week dropped Stillwater Mining Co. of Columbus as a supplier, saying that as it makes fewer cars it needs less precious metal. The automaker is keeping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmers, ranchers trying to stay on land turn to tourists and dude ranches _ or a Santa stint</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WOLF CREEK, Mont. — Zack Wirth realized more than 15 years ago that the economics of ranching would not let him make a living on his ancestral home, a scenic slice of western Montana tucked in the Rocky Mountains.

Wirth maintained a breeding herd of cattle and weaned calves on the Rocking Z Ranch, but he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wyo. asks judge to make Yellowstone let in more snowmobiles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — The state of Wyoming on Friday asked a federal judge to force Yellowstone National Park to allow up to 740 snowmobiles daily during winter — more than twice what the Obama administration wants.

The administration said Thursday it wants to cut the number of the machines to 318 daily and require all riders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interior Dept. proposes cutting Yellowstone snowmobile cap by more than half for next 2 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — The number of snowmobiles allowed in Yellowstone National Park would be cut by more than half under an Obama administration proposal announced Thursday that marked yet another policy swing on an issue that&#8217;s been unresolved for more than a decade.

The proposal would allow 318 snowmobiles and 78 multi-passenger snowcoaches daily for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge says GM can drop Montana mine in favor of foreign suppliers for precious metals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — A federal bankruptcy judge granted General Motors Co. permission Wednesday to cut ties with a Montana precious metals supplier so it can instead use cheaper foreign suppliers.

The cancellation of the Stillwater Mining Co. contract was approved by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber in New York following a hearing. No appeal was planned, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>General Motors drops Montana mine in favor of foreign suppliers for precious metals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — A federal bankruptcy judge has granted General Motors&#8217; request to drop its precious metals contract with a Montana mining company so it can use foreign suppliers instead.

Stillwater Mining Co. attorney Garry Graber says the cancellation was approved Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York.
For the last decade, Stillwater has supplied palladium [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Indian cultural leader Clarence &#8220;Curly Bear&#8221; Wagner dies in Montana</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HELENA, Mont. — Clarence &#8220;Curly Bear&#8221; Wagner, an American Indian historian who pressed for repatriation of ancestral remains to tribes, has died. He was 64.

Wagner died of cancer Thursday at a Browning hospital on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, said his cousin Walter Lamar.
A cultural director for the Blackfeet Tribe, Wagner shared his culture through his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>112-year-old Montana resident inherits title of world&#8217;s oldest man</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Walter Breuning learned to read by kerosene lantern, remembers his grandfather telling him about fighting in the Civil War, and cast his first presidential ballot for Woodrow Wilson.

The 112-year-old resident of Great Falls, Mont., apparently became the world&#8217;s oldest man when 113-year-old Henry Allingham of England died Saturday. Breuning was born [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana resort for elite climbs out bankruptcy, goes to Boston investor for $115 million</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — Montana&#8217;s ultra-posh Yellowstone Club is in new hands, following a $115 million deal that the new owner hopes will close the door on the resort&#8217;s highly publicized descent into bankruptcy.

The millionaires-only club was facing liquidation eight months ago. It&#8217;s been a victim of its prior owners&#8217; excesses and the broader economic downturn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stillwater Mining asks court to enforce GM precious metals contract</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — Stillwater Mining Co. is asking a federal bankruptcy judge to reverse a move by General Motors to cancel its precious metals contracts with the Montana company.

GM is attempting to shed the Stillwater contract as a part of a government-backed restructuring plan meant to revive the ailing carmaker. Stillwater&#8217;s two Montana mines supply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man vs. wild: Colo. camper uses chain saw to fend off attacking mountain lion in Wyoming</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — A Colorado man used a chain saw to fight off a mountain lion that attacked him during a camping trip with his wife and two toddlers in northwestern Wyoming.

The adult male lion, described as emaciated and showing other signs of starvation, was later killed by wildlife officials after it attacked a dog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colo. man fends off attacking mountain lion at Wyoming campsite with chain saw</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/colo-man-fends-off-attacking-mountain-lion-at-wyoming-campsite-with-chain-saw-112216/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/colo-man-fends-off-attacking-mountain-lion-at-wyoming-campsite-with-chain-saw-112216/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — Wielding his chain saw as a weapon, a Colorado man says he fought off a starving mountain lion that attacked him while he was camping with his wife and two toddlers in northwestern Wyoming.

Dustin Britton, a 32-year-old mechanic and ex-Marine from Windsor, Colo., said he was alone cutting firewood about 100 feet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-NFL running back Travis Henry gets 3 years in federal prison for cocaine trafficking</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ex-nfl-running-back-travis-henry-gets-3-years-in-federal-prison-for-cocaine-trafficking-110669/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — A federal judge Wednesday sentenced former NFL player Travis Henry to three years in prison for financing a drug ring that moved cocaine between Colorado and Montana.

Henry, 30, of Frostproof, Fla., was arrested by federal drug agents last October — just a few months after the running back&#8217;s release from the Denver [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With new ritual bath, rabbi sees &#8216;a milestone for Jewish life in Montana&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Gallagher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BOZEMAN, Mont. — In one of the least Jewish states in the country, a traditional Jewish group working to revive religious observance has built a mikvah, a ritual bath for spiritual purification.

The bath opened several months ago in an extension built on the Bozeman home of Rabbi Chaim Bruk and his wife, Chavie, who came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana gov blasts General Motors&#8217; plan to get platinum for catalytic converters from overseas</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/montana-gov-blasts-general-motors-plan-to-get-platinum-for-catalytic-converters-from-overseas-106000/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/montana-gov-blasts-general-motors-plan-to-get-platinum-for-catalytic-converters-from-overseas-106000/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — Gov. Brian Schweitzer is calling on the Obama administration to force General Motors to honor its contract with a Montana mining company instead of going overseas to buy the precious metals used to control vehicle pollution.

By failing to shield the platinum and palladium mines, the Democrat said Friday that the administration had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ID, Mont. ready for first open wolf hunts in lower US after endangered status lifted</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/id-mont-ready-for-first-open-wolf-hunts-in-lower-us-after-endangered-status-lifted-103346/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/id-mont-ready-for-first-open-wolf-hunts-in-lower-us-after-endangered-status-lifted-103346/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — Montana and Idaho are moving to host the first open gray wolf hunts in the lower 48 states after the animal&#8217;s removal from the endangered list across much of the Northern Rockies.

Montana wildlife commissioners voted Wednesday to let hunters throughout the state shoot 75 wolves, or 15 percent of Montana&#8217;s population, beginning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authorities: Oklahoma couple suspected in burial, excavation of young girl</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/authorities-oklahoma-couple-suspected-in-burial-excavation-of-young-girl-102261/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/authorities-oklahoma-couple-suspected-in-burial-excavation-of-young-girl-102261/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Len Iwanski</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HELENA, Mont. — An Oklahoma couple has been arrested for investigation of burying a young girl then digging up her remains and moving the body from state to state for more than a year, authorities said Tuesday.

Abel Wolf, 35, and Denise Wolf, 40, were being held without bail in the Hill County jail in Havre [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Couple in Oklahoma accused of burying, digging up remains of 11-year-old girl</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/couple-in-oklahoma-accused-of-burying-digging-up-remains-of-11-year-old-girl-102146/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HAVRE, Mont. — An Oklahoma couple are accused of burying an 11-year-old girl, digging up her remains and moving the body from state to state for more than a year.

Abel Wolf, 35, and Denise Wolf, 40, were being held without bail Tuesday in Havre, charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.
A spokeswoman for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana fireworks booth destroyed by fire, jeopardizing annual display</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HAVRE, Mont. — An early morning fire Tuesday destroyed a fireworks booth in north-central Montana, jeopardizing funding for the city of Havre&#8217;s annual fireworks display.

The Jaycees use proceeds from the fireworks sales to pay for the city&#8217;s Independence Day display. They ordered around $5,300 worth of fireworks for the city display, but they don&#8217;t pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Famed Montana dinosaur hunter gets probation, community service in stolen bones case</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Gallagher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Renowned dinosaur hunter Nathan Murphy was sentenced Wednesday to four months in a halfway house and three years probation after pleading guilty to stealing fossils.

Murphy was accused of stealing 13 dinosaur bones from central Montana&#8217;s Hell Creek badlands in 2006. He pleaded guilty in April to theft of government property.
U.S. District [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mont. city commission eliminates hiring policy seeking Internet passwords from job applicants</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/mont-city-commission-eliminates-hiring-policy-seeking-internet-passwords-from-job-applicants-89757/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/mont-city-commission-eliminates-hiring-policy-seeking-internet-passwords-from-job-applicants-89757/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BOZEMAN, Mont. — The Bozeman City Commission has voted to eliminate a hiring policy that allowed the city to look at information found on social networking sites in considering job applications.

Officials voted Monday to end the practice, which city Commissioner Jeff Rupp called an &#8220;egregious violation of privacy.&#8221;
&#8220;We have checks and balances that should be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City drops request for applicants to hand over passwords for Internet groups</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/city-drops-request-for-applicants-to-hand-over-passwords-for-internet-groups-87374/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Gouras</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HELENA, Mont. — A flood of criticism has prompted a Montana city to drop its request that government job applicants turn over their user names and passwords to Internet social networking and Web groups.

The city of Bozeman abruptly suspended the practice Friday, saying it &#8220;appears to have exceeded that which is acceptable to our community.&#8221;
&#8220;We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana woman uses chicken therapy to comfort seniors, others recovering from illness, injury</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/montana-woman-uses-chicken-therapy-to-comfort-seniors-others-recovering-from-illness-injury-87298/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[POLSON, Mont. — Therapy dogs can be a comfort for seniors and those recovering from illnesses and injuries.

So how about therapy chickens?
Jana Clairmont of Polson, Mont., calls her therapy birds — a white rooster and Cornish game hen — &#8220;Fowl Play.&#8221;
On Thursday, she took them to visit residents at Polson Health and Rehabilitation Center in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fowl Play: Montana woman finds her chickens to be therapeutic, shares them with others</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/fowl-play-montana-woman-finds-her-chickens-to-be-therapeutic-shares-them-with-others-87115/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[POLSON, Mont. — Therapy dogs can be a comfort for seniors and those recovering from illnesses and injuries. So how about therapy chickens? Jana Clairmont of Polson, Mont., calls her therapy birds — a white rooster and Cornish game hen — &#8220;Fowl Play.&#8221;

On Thursday, she took them to visit residents at Polson Health and Rehabilitation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Co-founder of exclusive Yellowstone Club has 10 days to arrange turnover of personal fortune</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/co-founder-of-exclusive-yellowstone-club-has-10-days-to-arrange-turnover-of-personal-fortune-86952/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — The bankrupt co-founder of Montana&#8217;s millionaires-only Yellowstone Club has 10 days to arrange how she will part with jewelry, furs, cars, houses, art and furniture.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Ralph Kirscher this week denied Edra Blixseth&#8217;s request to reorganize her businesses in a bid to salvage her fortune.
She now must sell off more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bozeman wants applicants to hand over passwords for Internet groups</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Gouras</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HELENA, Mont. — Job applicants with the city of Bozeman are finding that their private Internet discussions and pictures may not be so private after all.

The city is asking job seekers for the user names and passwords to Internet social networking or Web groups to which they belong. The decision is sparking an outcry from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana approves expansion of gravel pit operation next to Glacier National Park</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/montana-approves-expansion-of-gravel-pit-operation-next-to-glacier-national-park-85178/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Gallagher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HELENA, Mont. — Environmental regulators in Montana are allowing a gravel pit next to Glacier National Park to expand its operations, with restrictions to limit its noise and dust.

Opponents have said the expansion threatens views from part of the park in northwestern Montana. The edge of the area where Canyon Gravel is now allowed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge says bankrupt co-founder of exclusive Yellowstone Club has to sell personal assets</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/judge-says-bankrupt-co-founder-of-exclusive-yellowstone-club-has-to-sell-personal-assets-83589/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BUTTE, Mont. — A bankruptcy judge has rejected Edra Blixseth&#8217;s bid to reorganize her finances, pushing the co-founder of the ultra-exclusive Yellowstone Club into a forced sale of her many houses, cars and other properties.

Blixseth had appealed for more time to craft a business plan, hoping she could emerge from personal bankruptcy with her sizable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Folk Festival in Butte, Mont., July 10-12 celebrating the West</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kahrin Deines</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HELENA, Mont. — The lineup for the second National Folk Festival taking place in &#8220;Butte, America&#8221; July 10-12 stars about 250 singers, dancers and other artists, along with hoofed performers from all over Montana.

The three-day multicultural event, which is riding with a theme of Western horse culture, is expected to bring about 150,000 visitors — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grizzly bear victim and his savior plan Montana meeting on 50th anniversary of mauling</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/grizzly-bear-victim-and-his-savior-plan-montana-meeting-on-50th-anniversary-of-mauling-81696/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Gallagher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HELENA, Mont. — Joseph Williams was a 20-year-old Midwesterner hungry for adventure in 1959 when a hike through Glacier National Park turned into a vicious encounter with a grizzly bear.

Williams tangled with the bear for 45 minutes, getting mauled, fighting back and breaking free before the beast chased him down and attacked again. Then a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PROMISES, PROMISES: For many American Indians, free health care is a treaty promise not kept</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Mary Clare Jalonick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CROW AGENCY, Mont. — Ta&#8217;Shon Rain Little Light, a happy little girl who loved to dance and dress up in traditional American Indian clothes, had stopped eating and walking. She complained constantly to her mother that her stomach hurt.

When Stephanie Little Light took her daughter to the Indian Health Service clinic in this wind-swept and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NorthWestern Energy adds fuel-efficient bucket truck to fleet</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/northwestern-energy-adds-fuel-efficient-bucket-truck-to-fleet-79356/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BUTTE, Mont. — NorthWestern Energy has added a hybrid bucket truck to a growing list of fuel-efficient vehicles in the utility company&#8217;s fleet.

The new truck has a bucket lift that can operate on battery power. It is being deployed this week on the streets of Missoula and surrounding areas.
NorthWestern Fleet Manager Ron Anderson says the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana teen, 17, charged with killing 1, injuring 2 in dispute over girl starting with texts</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/montana-teen-17-charged-with-killing-1-injuring-2-in-dispute-over-girl-starting-with-texts-72688/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HELENA, Mont. — A Montana teenager is accused of killing another teen and injuring two others in a shooting that police say stemmed from an argument over a girl.

Seventeen-year-old Sebastian Walter Olivares-Coster of Helena is charged with one count of deliberate homicide and two counts of attempted deliberate homicide. He was being held on $500,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$115M sale of exclusive Yellowstone Club to Boston investor group approved by judge</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/115m-sale-of-exclusive-yellowstone-club-to-boston-investor-group-approved-by-judge-70205/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/115m-sale-of-exclusive-yellowstone-club-to-boston-investor-group-approved-by-judge-70205/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a plan to sell the exclusive Yellowstone Club in Montana for $115 million to a Boston investor group.

The ruling Tuesday will allow the club to emerge from bankruptcy protection and shake off most of its $400 million in debts.
The purchase price is less than a quarter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawsuits over hunting of gray wolves filed in federal courts in Montana, Wyoming</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — A pair of federal judges will decide which states in the Northern Rockies have enough gray wolves to allow public hunting, as the bitter debate over the region&#8217;s wolves heads to courts in Wyoming and Montana.

Environmentalists filed a lawsuit in Missoula on Tuesday seeking to restore protections for more than 1,300 wolves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM bankruptcy closely watched by provider of precious metals for cars Stillwater Mining</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/gm-bankruptcy-closely-watched-by-provider-of-precious-metals-for-cars-stillwater-mining-69313/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — An official at Stillwater Mining Co., which sells platinum and palladium for use in automobiles&#8217; catalytic converters, says the company is monitoring the General Motors bankruptcy to see if Stillwater-GM contracts will be honored.

Stillwater Mining spokesman John Beaudry says all the palladium and 70 percent of the platinum produced by the company&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amateur paleontologist sentenced to 60 days for stealing raptor bones in Montana</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/amateur-paleontologist-sentenced-to-60-days-for-stealing-raptor-bones-in-montana-69300/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/amateur-paleontologist-sentenced-to-60-days-for-stealing-raptor-bones-in-montana-69300/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — A commercial fossil hunter, whose discovery of the world&#8217;s best-preserved dinosaur brought scientific acclaim, will serve 60 days in jail for stealing raptor bones from private land.

Nathan Murphy, 51, a self-taught paleontologist, was convicted in March of felony theft for taking the raptor fossil from a ranch in northern Montana.
He is scheduled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NCAA looking at Montana&#8217;s fantasy sports betting in light of stance against gambling</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ncaa-looking-at-montanas-fantasy-sports-betting-in-light-of-stance-against-gambling-67462/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ncaa-looking-at-montanas-fantasy-sports-betting-in-light-of-stance-against-gambling-67462/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 07:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Beth Hanson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HELENA, Mont. — State and university officials are working to prove a Montana law that allows fantasy sports leagues does not violate the NCAA&#8217;s stance against gambling on sporting events.

An NCAA spokeswoman recently said the University of Montana should not have hosted playoff games last season because the state has a form of legalized sports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gitmo on the Plains: Hard-luck Montana town offers its never-used jail for Guantanamo inmates</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/gitmo-on-the-plains-hard-luck-montana-town-offers-its-never-used-jail-for-guantanamo-inmates-67257/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 03:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HARDIN, Mont. — On Capitol Hill, politicians are dead-set against transferring some of the world&#8217;s most feared terrorists from Guantanamo to prisons on U.S. soil. But at City Hall in this impoverished town on the Northern Plains, the attitude is: Bring &#8216;em on.

Hardin, a dusty town of 3,400 people so desperate that it built a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Correction: Grizzly Bear Coolers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 00:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HELENA, Mont. — In a May 28 story about food coolers that passed tests for resistance to grizzly bears, The Associated Press misspelled the surname of the owner of Engel USA in Jupiter, Fla. His name is Paul Kabalin, not Kabelin.
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		<title>Bankruptcy judge says Swiss bank&#8217;s bid for posh Mont. club must include $42M in debt payment</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/bankruptcy-judge-says-swiss-banks-bid-for-posh-mont-club-must-include-42m-in-debt-payment-61989/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 04:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kahrin Deines</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HELENA, Mont. — A federal bankruptcy judge ruled Wednesday that Credit Suisse must offer about $42 million in cash to clear other creditors&#8217; claims on top of any bid it makes for a luxury Montana resort at auction.

Judge Ralph Kirscher said in the ruling that the Swiss bank is required to cover other parties&#8217; debts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal bankruptcy judge says Credit Suisse loan to Yellowstone Club was predatory</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/federal-bankruptcy-judge-says-credit-suisse-loan-to-yellowstone-club-was-predatory-60858/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 05:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kahrin Deines</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HELENA, Mont. — A federal bankruptcy judge has ruled that a $375 million loan made by Credit Suisse to a Montana resort for the ultrarich was predatory and should be subordinated to other debts.

Judge Ralph Kirscher issued a partial and interim order Tuesday. He did not say when he would issue a final decision.
The decision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial giant Credit Suisse defends its $375M loan to Montana&#8217;s fancy Yellowstone Club</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/financial-giant-credit-suisse-defends-its-375m-loan-to-montanas-fancy-yellowstone-club-56542/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/financial-giant-credit-suisse-defends-its-375m-loan-to-montanas-fancy-yellowstone-club-56542/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 07:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MISSOULA, Mont. — Financial giant Credit Suisse is defending its $375 million loan to a now-bankrupt Montana resort for the rich, saying it was a legitimate transaction that reflected standard lending practices at the time.

Creditors for the Yellowstone Club claim the loan was fraudulent. They say Credit Suisse was peddling dangerous loans that relied on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wyoming, Idaho governors slam federal brucellosis plan, ask Vilsack to withhold action</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/wyoming-idaho-governors-slam-federal-brucellosis-plan-ask-vilsack-to-withhold-action-55461/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 01:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BILLINGS, Mont. — The governors of Wyoming and Idaho say a federal plan to create a special livestock disease management zone in the Yellowstone region would &#8220;taint&#8221; the area&#8217;s cattle industry but do nothing to eliminate the disease.

Yellowstone is the nation&#8217;s last reservoir of brucellosis, a disease prevalent in wild bison and elk that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autopsy: No drugs in system of pilot in fatal Montana plane crash, likely no heart attack</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/autopsy-no-drugs-in-system-of-pilot-in-fatal-montana-plane-crash-likely-no-heart-attack-54491/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 01:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HELENA, Mont. — A Montana coroner says the pilot in a March plane crash that killed 14 had no drugs or alcohol in his system and did not appear to have suffered a heart attack.

Butte-Silver Bow County Coroner Lee LaBreche (luh-BRESH&#8217;) said Wednesday that 65-year-old pilot Ellison Summerfield appeared to have had heart disease. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yellowstone Club owner says she opposed $375M loan blamed in collapse of Montana resort</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/yellowstone-club-owner-says-she-opposed-375m-loan-blamed-in-collapse-of-montana-resort-52234/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/yellowstone-club-owner-says-she-opposed-375m-loan-blamed-in-collapse-of-montana-resort-52234/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 10:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Brown</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MISSOULA, Mont. — The owner of the ultra-exclusive Yellowstone Club says she opposed a $375 million loan blamed for the resort&#8217;s financial collapse, but never tried to stop the transaction.

Edra Blixseth testified in federal bankruptcy court that her former husband Tim moved $209 million from the loan into their private accounts.
&#8220;I was quite concerned with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expert: $375M loan to exclusive Yellowstone Club in Montana was based on faulty projections</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/expert-375m-loan-to-exclusive-yellowstone-club-in-montana-was-based-on-faulty-projections-51886/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 03:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kahrin Deines</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MISSOULA, Mont. — A real estate expert says a $375 million loan to the Yellowstone Club before it sought bankruptcy protection was based on faulty assumptions that sales at the exclusive Montana club would be brisk.

Credit Suisse is accused of making a bogus loan to the club in 2005.
The club&#8217;s creditors have sued in federal [...]]]></description>
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