| March 22, 2009 | - A plane carrying 17 people, many of them children, to a ski holiday crashed next to a Montana cemetery, killing all aboard.
| Source 1:
CNN
Source 2:
Reuters
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| October 18, 2006 | - During a debate with his Democratic rival, Senator Conrad Burns of Montana said that President Bush (who this week compared Iraq to Vietnam) has a secret plan for winning the war, but that Bush is not going to share his plan with the world.
| Source 1:
Billings Gazette
Source 2:
FT
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| September 25, 2006 | - An appeals court ruled that a Montana mother who gave bong hits to her baby daughter should not have to spend five years in jail.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| August 31, 2006 | -
Montana
Senator Conrad Burns said that terrorists “drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill by night.”
| Source:
AP via Breitbart
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| August 1, 2006 | - Corporal Phillip E. Baucus, 28, nephew of U.S. Senator
Max Baucus, was killed in action in Iraq.
| Source:
Bloomberg via Google News
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| June 27, 2006 | - A man who killed himself in Eureka, Montana, also killed a 16-year-old girl when a bullet traveled through his head and struck the girl in the chest.
| Source:
wftv.com
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| November 25, 2005 | - It was revealed that the investigation into illegal payoffs made by lobbyist Jack Abramoff involves not only Representative
Tom DeLay (R., Texas), but Representative Bob Ney (R., Ohio), Representative John Doolittle (R., Calif.), Senator Conrad Burns (R., Mont.), 17 current and former Congressional aides, and two former Bush Administration officials.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 22, 2005 | - A man in Butte, Montana, was charged with killing and beheading a dog, then throwing the severed head at the dog’s owner. "Here," said the man, "is your f------- dog back."
| Source:
The Independent Record
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| August 14, 2005 | - A toad infestation struck Big Sandy, Montana, and made the roads sticky.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| August 5, 2005 | - A Montana court ruled that it is legal for police to search through a suspect's garbage without a warrant. "I don't like living in Orwell's 1984," wrote Montana Supreme Court justice James C. Nelson, who concurred with the ruling, "but I do."
| Source:
News.com
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| November 7, 2004 | - Voters in Montana approved the use of medical marijuana; they also approved a "right to hunt" amendment. Florida and Nevada raised the states' minimum wage.
| Source: New York Times
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| November 20, 2003 | - A serial horse rapist was on the loose in Bigfork, Montana.
| Source:
Bigfork Eagle
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| March 5, 2002 | -
The sheriff of Flathead County, Montana, described a foiled plot by a right-wing militia to assassinate local authorities, including the dog catcher; the killings would have resulted, according to the plan, in the deployment of National Guard troops, whose deaths were to have sparked a revolution.
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