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Montana man pleads not guilty to federal hate crime charge

| June 30, 2021 2:50 PM

BUTTE (AP) — A Montana man has pleaded not guilty to a federal hate crime charge filed after he was accused of threatening a person with violent, homophobic slurs and firing seven shots into the person's house with an AK-47 rifle, prosecutors said.

John Russell Howald of Basin entered his plea Tuesday during a hearing before U...

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