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Thursday: Best of Preps, Fugitive Found, Boulder Water

By Beacon Staff

Good morning; on the Beacon today, our Best of Preps feature just gets better and better, showcasing the valley’s top high school athletes. Weeks after the decision not to renew former Fair Manager Jay Scott’s contract, a member of the Flathead County Fair Board is responding with what she says is an effort to dispel rumors by laying her reasoning behind the decision bare. A 21-year-old Polson man, Ross Elliott Johnson, has been sentenced to 20 years at the Montana State Hospital for shooting his father to death in the woods about 45 miles west of Kalispell in 2008. And Wild Bill Schneider continues to rail against fees on public lands as a doorway to privatization.

A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the bill making changes in President Barack Obama’s newly enacted health care overhaul will have to go back to the House for final congressional approval, something top Democrats were trying to avoid. A hitchhiker originally sentenced to be executed for the 1951 killing of a Montana man who picked him up during a blizzard has been found running a wedding chapel under an assumed name in Arizona 38 years after he skipped out on parole. Officials with a renewable energy developer based in Ireland said Wednesday the company has paid $3.5 million to reserve priority position on the Bonneville Power Administration’s interstate transmission system – a move that will allow wind power produced in Montana to be distributed to the West Coast. University of Montana officials say medical marijuana is not allowed on campus, even if a person has a state-issued medical marijuana card. The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a district judge to appoint a new judge to hear Barry Beach’s petition for post-conviction relief in a 1979 murder case. Projected reductions reportedly contained in the new nuclear arms treaty between the U.S. and Russia that officials in both countries announced Wednesday may not impact the number of land-based missiles at Malmstrom Air Force base or the two other intercontinental ballistic missile bases, military observers say. Boulder residents are being advised not to drink or even bathe in city water after a problem with one of the city’s water storage tanks was discovered late Tuesday.