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Child Bridge is setting the stage to bring more culturally-informed guardianship and community into Montana's foster care system, where Native American children are over-represented.
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Regional News
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Sexton spent more than 30 years in higher education in Billings.
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The sport has been part of the state games for more than 20 years, thanks to a Billings man who introduced pickleball and continues to teach the fundamentals.
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Dušan Smetana has been racing pigeons in Bozeman for about 20 years, but has had a love for the birds since his childhood in Slovakia.
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More than four years ago a 79-year-old man was killed in his home in Bozeman. The case had been cold, until Thursday July 10th, when DNA evidence allegedly linked a Bozeman man with the crime.
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The Northern Cheyenne Food Pantry spent years scrambling between temporary locations and now has plans to build its own headquarters and kitchen in Lame Deer.
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Visitation to Yellowstone National Park was up in June.
National News
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The conflict had drawn airstrikes against Syrian forces by neighboring Israel in defense of the Druze before a truce halted most of the fighting.
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The House approved a Trump administration plan to rescind $9 billion in previously allocated funds, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Colbert confirmed the cancellation during a show taping on Thursday. CBS said the move was "purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night."
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President Trump is threatening to sue "The Wall Street Journal" for reporting on his past ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein while calling for some additional Epstein files to be made public.
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El Salvador's most prominent human rights group says it's been forced into exile, citing threats and harassment from the government of President Nayib Bukele.
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