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Something changed for Jerry Thex when he saw a Sept. 3 video of Dakota Access Pipeline security using dogs to drive protesters off private land.

He got frustrated.

Another video on Nov. 2 showed police in riot gear firing rubber bullets and pepper spray at protesters, who were approaching the shoreline during a water demonstration in Cantapeta Creek north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

“I couldn’t even finish the videos the other day,” said Thex, a Northern Cheyenne tribal member.

-  Photos and text by Bronte Wittpenn of the Billings Gazette:

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Missoulian editor Kathy Best tells readers how the newsroom created this historic A1, and the reason their papers may have been late the day after the election. “If your Missoulian arrived late to your home Wednesday morning – or didn’t arrive at all in the mail – we hope you’ll forgive us. We had to make one of the hardest choices in journalism: honor the news or honor the deadline. We chose the news.”

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“I’m actually terrified of heights.” - Griffen Gilbert. Photo by Kira Vercruyssen for the Missoulian. 

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People thought that Jaritt and I beat our child to death.

Candice Brownmiller, parent who received the wrong cause of death for her child. (via keilaszpaller)

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GOING-TO-THE-SUN-ROAD – As firefighter-plumbed sprinklers spit water around the Rising Sun Motor Inn on Thursday, trees underneath a cliff, maybe 50 yards behind the general store, torched into balls of flame. - Vince Devlin, Missoulian. Photo by Tom Bauer.

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For Vietnam veterans, visit to Huey is closure after 45 years.   

“Marvis “Adam” Dobbs ran his hand across the floor of the helicopter in a slow circle before slapping the metal with his palm and climbing aboard.” - Reporter Dillon Kato of the Missoulian.

Missoulian photo editor Kurt Wilson took the shot.

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“We’ve been literally looking in the wrong place to understand how wildfires spread.” - Rob Chaney, Missoulian reporter

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Weather service warns of explosive growth for fire burning in Glacier National Park. 

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“We come from the ocean, and like the openness.”

J is for Judith Gap is the most recent featured letter in the Alphabet series by the Missoulian. Story by Vince Devlin, and photos by editor Kurt Wilson.

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Rio is one lucky horse. Here’s Matt Hoffman’s story from the Billings Gazette of the foal’s rescue from an island where she was trapped alone.

Photo credit: Help Every Pet Hardin

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“It’s a day that many of us thought would maybe never come, but to see the right to marry be equal for all people across our country ... is overwhelming and inspiring.” - Montana State Rep. Bryce Bennett of Missoula

Photo: Associated Press photographer Jeff Chiu

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PHILIPSBURG -Now some of the oldest sets of handcuffs and billy clubs and police badges and guns ever carried or worn or swung or shot by sheriffs and others who sported badges in Montana can be found at the top of Broadway Street. - Mike Smith of the Montana Standard 

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"It’s a beautiful thing, watching the rosy fingers of a winter dawn spread across the prairie of central Montana from a knoll with a dead dog named Shep.

"In a glance, you get a sense of what Fort Benton’s about.

"The wide Missouri is obscured by a blanket of jagged ice and snow."

Here's a look at Fort Benton, Montana, by Missoulian reporter Kim Briggeman.

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In general, the rules of campaign finance have not kept up with the political realities after Citizens United.

Anthony Johnstone, University of Montana School of Law, lawyer who represented Montana in related U.S. Supreme Court case. (via keilaszpaller)

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We should expose it for what it is – using religion as an excuse for violence. Those who speak up, those who criticize, they’ve been executed in cold blood.

Mehrdad Kia, University of Montana professor of history, director of the Central and Southwest Asian Studies Center

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Good news from reporter and photographer Perry Backus:

"The last of 15 Labrador puppies rescued in December by the Thompson River Animal Care Shelter from an alleged puppy mill operation in Plains will be in their new homes by the weekend."

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Thank you, Madam President.

- Montana state Senate President Pro Tempore Eric Moore, R-Miles City, addressing Senate President Debby Barrett, R-Dillon. “I am proud to be the first on this floor to use this term."