The Breakfast Flakes
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What’s Your Reason To Relay?
Billings Relay for life teams are raising funds for their big event coming up July 12. More than 100 teams have signed up for this outstanding fundraiser and it’s not too late to join or even start a team!
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Fun and Games
Earlier this week Karen from the Big Sky State and Games by to talk about the games scheduled for July 19th thru the July 21st.
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Is Coal Under Valued?
Federal and state officials will weigh in this week on a Wyoming company's application to lease 198 million tons of coal adjacent to a southeastern Montana mine, amid an emerging debate over whether the government is undervaluing the coal from such projects.
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Community invited to welcome vets home today.
The community is invited to welcome vets home on Monday.
A welcome home celebration for the latest tour of Big Sky Honor Flight WWII veterans is planned for Monday evening.
Anyone in the Billings area who wishes to be a part of the celebration is encouraged to be at Billings Logan Airport before 8:30 p
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Montana Most Improved in Higher Education
Montana has shown the most improvement among states in recent years in higher-education graduation rates, in part because of its investment in two-year colleges. According to census data, the number of Montanans with associate, bachelor, master and doctoral degrees increased by 6 percent from 2008 to 2010, totaling 40 percent of state residents
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Who’s Watching the Kids?
A recent legislative audit finds there are at least 64 Montana school bus drivers with criminal records, including two with drunken-driving convictions within three years of the study. In addition, some school districts appear to be taking advantage of a reimbursement policy in which the larger the bus, the higher the payment rate per mile
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Stealing from the Lord?
Police in Billings are investigating after surveillance video captured a man stealing about $3,000 in equipment from Hope Center Foursquare CHURCH, including a riding lawn mower, snow blower and some power washers.
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Brothers Should Pull Up Their Pants
The Wildwood, NJ, town council has voted unanimously to ban from its boardwalk pants worn more than three inches below the hips. ‘Sagging has become very offensive to a number of people,’ the mayor said
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Acid Spill at Missoula Manufacturer
An estimated 5,000 gallons of diluted acids flooded the floor of a Missoula manufacturer on Wednesday, after a valve in a mixing vat was left open overnight. Crews with the Missoula Rural and Missoula City fire departments, and the Frenchtown Rural Fire District, responded shortly before 10 a
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It Was A Rounding Error…Really?
Undervalued coal sales have cost the U.S. an estimated $62 million in potential lost revenues in recent years, according to a Tuesday report from federal investigators who recommended broad changes to the government's coal leasing program to stem further losses.
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Missoula County attorney speaks to DOJ investigation
The Missoula County attorney says he is willing to scrutinize the way his office handles sexual assault and rape cases, but will not cooperate with a Department of Justice probe he calls politically motivated.
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Staying Safe
Montana State University Billings officials warned students Wednesday evening of a recent string of sexual assaults against college-age women in Billings. Billings Police Department Chief Rich St. John said in an email that the assaults date to January of this year and that it’s not yet clear if they’re related.