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Convicted murderer Barry Beach, granted clemency by Governor Steve Bullock in 2015, will not go to trial in Billings this week.  On Friday, city prosecutors reportedly filed a motion to dismiss their charges against him. Bullock signed an executive order granting Beach’s request for clemency after he’d served more than 32 years in prison for the 1979 murder of Kimberly Nees in Poplar, Montana... R

State prosecutors plan to re-try Joseph Campbell in the October 2013 shooting death of a neighbor in an Augusta-area subdivision.

Missoula City officials may have been happy with their District Court victory in the Mountain Water Condemnation trial, but Mountain Water Company employees aren’t ready to end the fight.

Missoula may be trying to condemn Mountain Water Company, but testimony in court today was mostly about how well the city runs the things it is already responsible for.

Detective Mitch Lang took the stand in the Markus Kaarma trial today to take jurors through a video walk-through he filmed as well as crime scene photographs. One of Lang's specialties is determining patterns in criminal activity. He does not recall any pattern of crimes in the Prospect area of Grant Creek leading up to the shooting...

Jordan Graham pleaded guilty to a second degree murder charge on Thursday (Dec. 12) in the death of her newlywed husband, Cody Johnson, at Glacier National Park.

Day four of the Jordan Graham trial continued on Thursday morning of December 12, a little later then scheduled. The prosecution rested and the defense began calling up witnesses--one in particular was Graham's mother, Lindele Rutledge.

The third day of the Jordan Graham trial wrapped-up with testimonies by two FBI agents that helped piece together the events of July 7, the day that Graham is accused of murdering her newlywed husband Cody Johnson by pushing him off a cliff near "the loop" parking lot at Glacier National Park.

The coroner for the Flathead County Sheriff's Department gave his account of where he found articles of clothing belonging to Cody Johnson, as well as a cloth that has been in question, from the witness stand today, Dec. 11, in the third day of the Jordan Graham murder trial.

It's the third day of the Jordan Graham murder trial, and although many have testified that Graham did not act "normal" either before or after the death of her newlywed husband Cody Johnson, little has been discussed that might point to a predetermined plan by Graham to kill her husband: a case the prosecution must make to convict Graham of first degree murder.