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 DECEMBER Richard Raugust greets his sister, Mary Webster, left, and mother, Marci Jones, upon being released after serving more than 18 years in prison for the murder of his best friend, a crime he insists he didn’t commit. Raugust, whose 1998 conviction for the murder of Joseph Tash was overturned on Nov. 16 by a district court judge, was released from prison following a bail hearing Dec. 4. He will live in an apartment in Missoula awaiting his day in court and the state’s appeal to the Montana Supreme Court.
 AUGUST Bob Brown, right, laughs as U.S. Sen. Steve Daines celebrates with shing guide Irv Heitz after landing and releasing a rainbow trout on the North Fork Flathead River. Daines’ oat trip celebrated the passage of the North Fork Watershed Protect Act, a measure to ban new energy development on 430,000 acres of the wild and scenic river corridor.
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