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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Butte

Butte stories: 4 news summaries

(Newser) - A new wrinkle has emerged in the investigation of the plane crash that killed 14 people in Montana Sunday, ABC News reports. Just two weeks ago, the FAA issued a directive ordering operators of the Pilatus PC-12 model to check for a potential problem with a control mechanism. The directive... More »

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FAA • Montana • plane crash • Butte • Federal Aviation Administration • Pilatus

 Mont. Plane 
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 Trouble: NTSB 

All passengers died when turboprop plane crashed in Butte

Mar 23, 09 11:19 AM CDT
(AP) - The plane that crashed yesterday in Montana, killing all 14 aboard, gave no indication to air traffic controllers that the aircraft was experiencing difficulty when the pilot asked to divert to an airport in Butte, a federal safety official said today. There was "no indication of any trouble when... More »

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Montana • death • plane crash • Butte • air traffic control • National Air Traffic Controllers Association • malfunction

Unlikely GOP Candidate Runs for Montana Senate Seat

85-year-old wants a British-style parliament

Aug 12, 08 7:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Montana senator Max Baucus looks certain to win reelection this November, writes the New York Times, but his Republican challenger is gaining some attention for his unorthodox proposals. Bob Kelleher, 85, wants to nationalize oil companies, end the Iraq war to fund cancer research—and, most shockingly, eliminate the separation... More »

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Montana • Republican Party • Butte • Republican candidate • Max Baucus • Bob Kelleher

Cancer Cures Hiding in Poisonous Lake

Scientists fish new microbes out of a toxic soup that kills

Aug 28, 07 6:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two scientists may be fishing cancer cures out of an abandoned, poisonous lake, Wired reports. Don and Andrea Stierle are finding microbes in the green goup of an old Montana pit lake that don’t exist anywhere else – and happen to make compounds that inhibit a lung cancer and... More »

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cancer • lung cancer • science • Montana • ovarian cancer • cancer research • poison • lake • Don Stierle • Andrea Stierle • microbe • Butte

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