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letters to television stations urging them to stop airing an attack ad against him.
The cease and desist letter from Anita Milanovich says the ad by Good Jobs Montana PAC is “false and misleading” and stations should refuse to air it.
Milanovich writes the ad contains false claims, such as Gianforte is a “mil- lionaire from New Jersey” and that he “sued to eliminate a popular public access spot.”
Gianforte is from California and grew up in Pennsylvania. He led a lawsuit against the state in 2009 over a dispute about an easement next to his property, but resolved the issue out of court.
The Montana Broadcasters Associa- tion is counseling television stations to consult their attorneys about whether to continue airing the ads.
BOZEMAN
6. State Receives New Proposal for
Gold Mining Near Yellowstone
A company has resubmitted its appli- cation to look for gold in Montana near the Yellowstone National Park border after state o cials raised some concerns with the project.
Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports Kristi Ponozzo with the Montana Depart- ment of Environmental Quality says the agency received the updated application from Crevice Mining Group last month. It’s currently under review.
State environmental o cials had raised some concerns about the Crevice Mountain exploratory drilling project in April based on the initial application that was sent in October. They had wanted to make sure the Spokane, Washing- ton-based company didn’t combine the operations with those operations gov- erned by a small miner’s permit it already obtained from the state.
The head of the company, Michael Werner, says there have been no substan- tial changes to the project.
BILLINGS
8. Montana Economy Shrinks for Second Straight Quarter
The Montana economy has shrunk for the second straight quarter as oil and gas, timber, mining, agriculture and trans- portation all reported losses.
The Billings Gazette reports that according to a Bureau of Economic Anal- ysis report issued last week, drops in industry pulled Montana’s gross domes- tic product into negative gures for the last three months of 2015 as well as the rst quarter of 2016.
Bureau of Economic Analysis spokes- man Thomas Dale says Montana was par- ticularly a ected by dips in transporta- tion and mining.
In the nal quarter of 2015, the state’s gross domestic product shrank 1 percent. It contracted 0.9 percent in the rst three months of 2016.
According to the report, transporta- tion declined as a result of slowing coal production. In Montana, coal is 71 per- cent of BNSF’s shipments.
BILLINGS
9. Prosecutor Won’t Pursue Felony
Charges Against Beach
A Montana prosecutor says he’s not pursuing felony charges at this time against a man accused of sexually prop- ositioning a 12-year-old girl two months after he was granted clemency in a 1979 murder.
Yellowstone County Attorney Scott Twito said last week that he’s sent the complaint involving Barry Beach to the Billings city attorney. That means the matter still could be considered for potential misdemeanor charges.
Beach told The Associated Press that he had no comment on the case.
Twito also sent his ndings to the Department of Corrections. Beach was placed on probation for 10 years as a con- dition of the clemency granted him by Gov. Steve Bullock last November.
He was convicted in 1983 for killing Kimberly Nees of Poplar, but had long denied any involvement.
MALTA
10. Man Shot, Killed After Stabbing
Phillips County Sheri ’s Deputy
A Phillips County sheri ’s deputy shot and killed a man during a confron- tation along U.S. Highway 191 southwest of Malta.
The Department of Justice says the deputy was stabbed several times and was being treated at a Great Falls hospi- tal. The deputy’s name was not released.
The DOJ says the o cer responded to a call about a suspicious man walking along the highway on July 27. When the deputy confronted the man, the suspect attacked and stabbed him. The deputy shot and killed the suspect.
The man’s name, age and hometown have not been released.
The state’s Division of Criminal Inves- tigation is investigating. The Department of Transportation expects the road to be closed most of the day, so travelers are urged to consider an alternate route.
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7. Man Sentenced for Scratching Initials into Yellowstone’s Roosevelt
Arch
A Texas man has been sentenced to three days in jail and ordered to pay $250 in restitution for carving his initials into the iconic Roosevelt Arch at the north entrance of Yellowstone National Park.
Park o cials say a visitor spotted 26-year-old Dakota D. Tipton of Joshua, Texas, scratching the initials “DDT” into the keystone above a small walkway arch on one side of the larger arch on June 10.
Tipton appeared via phone for sen- tencing last week by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Carman in Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming. The U.S. Marshal’s Service will determine where Tipton will serve his sentence.
President Theodore Roosevelt laid the cornerstone to the 50-foot-tall arch in April 1903. The inscription on top reads: “For the bene t and enjoyment of the people.”
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