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Missoula County settled a lawsuit yesterday with a female Missoula County Sheriff's Deputy for $60,000 over a kiss that occurred with another off-duty deputy, in which she claimed gender discrimination and right to privacy violations.

A Ravalli County man accused of kidnapping, brutally raping and injecting a young girl with methamphetamine over several days in February, could possibly face the death penalty.

Convicted murderer Clayton Lockett was scheduled to be executed at 6:00 p.m. tonight (April 29). While authorities were administering the lethal injection they discovered the line into Lockett's arm had blown. Prison officials halted the execution and at 7:06 p.m. Lockett suffered a massive heart attack and passed away.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The state is seeking the death penalty in the case of a Montana State Prison inmate charged with killing a fellow inmate by cutting his throat. The Attorney General's office confirmed Thursday that the state filed notice in District Court in Powell County Tuesday in the deliberate homicide case against Clyde Ervin Cosner...

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A judge has decided a Fort Hood shooting suspect still can face the death penalty if convicted in the worst mass shooting on a U.S. military installation.