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Judge Jessica Fehr sentenced Zachary O'Neill to life in prison for deliberate homicide, attempted deliberate homicide, and sexual intercourse without consent. This sentencing concludes the cold case of Miranda Fenner, who was killed at a movie store in Laurel, Montana in 1998.
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park has transferred 55 wild bison to a Montana Indian reservation under a program that aims to establish new disease-free herds of the animals, park and tribal officials said Friday.
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park has transferred 55 wild bison to a Montana Indian reservation under a program that aims to establish new disease-free herds of the animals, park and tribal officials said Friday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaire industrialist David H. Koch, who with his older brother Charles poured a fortune into right-wing causes, transforming the American political landscape and shaping U.S. policies on such issues as climate change and government regulation, died Friday at 79.
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities say a man died after the fishing boat he was in flipped on the Snake River in northwest Wyoming.
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GERING, Neb. (AP) — Farmers in western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming left without a way to water crops following the collapse of a massive irrigation tunnel in July will be covered by federal crop insurance.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — As the father of an 18-year-old video store clerk spoke to her confessed killer, a slide show flashed on a monitor in a Montana courtroom Friday: the young woman smiling with a fish dangling from a pole, laughing with her brother perched atop a boulder and posing in a …
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A judge has ordered an evidentiary hearing within two weeks on a protest involving coal miners who have blocked trains transporting coal.
A Montana man whose confessions to a 1998 murder were initially met with disbelief has been sentenced to life in prison.
It's one of the most famous cold cases in Montana. 20 years ago today, Miranda Fenner was murdered while working at a video store in Laurel. On November 15th, 1998, 18-year old Miranda Fenner was stabbed in the head and neck by an unidentified assailant.
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission has signed off on a conservation easement protecting about 35 square miles (90 square kilometers) of forestlands.
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota authorities have filed additional child sexual abuse charges against a former Indian Health Services pediatrician.
Billings, MT - Zachary O'Neill was sentenced to life in prison Friday after pleading guilty in July to killing Miranda Fenner at a business in Laurel in 1998.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Attorneys general from a dozen western states want the Trump administration to halt a proposal by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that they say usurps states' authority over their own water.
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska's highest court lifted one of the last major hurdles for the Keystone XL pipeline in the state on Friday when it rejected another attempt to derail the project by opponents who wanted to force the developer to reapply for state approval.
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A geologist who has never held statewide public office has announced he is running for the Wyoming U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Mike Enzi.
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GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — Cascade County is suing the Montana Department of Corrections in a dispute over payment for the cost of holding state inmates in the county's regional jail.
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A state judge has ruled that the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality must release land appraisal documents related to the bond renewal for the Belle Ayr coal mine in Campbell County.
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