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ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Rangers from the U.S. Forest Service are hiking back to a popular hot springs to see if the area is clear of the remains of frozen cows.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A recent sale of oil and gas leases on federal lands in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota brought in $3.9 million in bonus bids.

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - A man hospitalized in Rapid City has been indicted in the stabbing death of a pregnant woman.

DENVER (AP) - Newborn babies in Colorado are now being tested for the so-called bubble-boy disease that protects infants with compromised immune systems.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Environmental groups say they will ask the Montana Supreme Court to overturn a district court ruling that temporarily halts transfers of Yellowstone National Park bison to tribal and public lands.

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - A South Dakota woman who admitted killing her husband has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - A wildfire in northern Colorado that's grown to nearly 1,000 acres is putting out more smoke as erratic winds have pushed it into areas with more trees.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Wildlife advocates are asking a federal judge to stop the use of helicopters to haze migrating bison back into Yellowstone National Park, a practice they allege scares threatened grizzly bears.

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - The funeral for former U.S. Senator Jim Abdnor will be Saturday in Pierre.

DENVER (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a report that a small jet airplane had a close call with an unidentified object over Denver.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Montana wildlife regulators will consider proposals this week on ways to expand this year's wolf hunt in an effort to reduce the population of predators.

ORCHARD MESA, Colo. (AP) - A family from Orchard Mesa is getting new furniture after abandoning their apartment to a bedbug invasion.

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) - A federal wolf specialist says a gray wolf found dead on South Dakota's Ridge Reservation came from Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The leaders of the Crow Indians, the state of Montana and the U.S. Department of Interior have signed a water compact that resolves decades of legal disputes over water rights on the tribe's arid reservation.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - The Pierre City Commission has finalized contracts with the union representing two groups of city employees, and Rapid City and its firefighters have come to an agreement on wages. Both disputes have been ongoing for about two years.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - Loveland has approved a moratorium on oil and gas drilling within city limits and the Fort Collins City Council is giving tentative approval.

DEER LODGE, Mont. (AP) - Montana officials have rejected parole for a notorious "mountain man" who abducted a world-class athlete in 1984 to keep as a wife for his son.

WRAY, Colo. (AP) - Volunteer firefighters are agreeing to remove beer kegs from their firehouse in eastern Colorado after residents complained it's unprofessional.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - The director of the South Dakota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union pleaded guilty to hitting his 12-year-old stepdaughter with a belt.

BILLLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Booming oil production in the Northern Plains is spurring law enforcement from the U.S. and Canada to gird for a spike in crimes ranging from drug trafficking to prostitution.