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Donald Ray Cherry will serve 65 years after pleading no contest in the deliberate homicide of Myron Knight.

(Getty Images/selimaksan) The Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont.  — A Montana man who was twice convicted of killing another man during a drunken argument over which branch of the military was better was sentenced Friday to 80 years in prison. William Earl Cunningham, 69, of Laurel was first convicted of deliberate homicide in March 2015 in the 2014 death of Nathan Horn, 40. Horn claimed to be a Marine veteran, though defense attorneys said in the second trial that he hadnt actual...

William Earl Cunningham, 69, was first convicted of deliberate homicide in March 2015 in the 2014 death of Nathan Horn, 40.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man who was twice convicted of killing another man...

PHOEBE TOLLEFSON A 69-year-old Laurel man received the same 80-year prison sentence on Friday that he did after his first trial in 2015 for killing a man during a knife attack. William Earl Cunningham was granted a new trial by the Montana Supreme Court in the 2014 death of 40-year-old Nathan Horn. He was convicted of deliberate homicide again last August. It was the second night of drinking and arguing between the two men at a picnic table at Cunninghams apartment complex. Horn ...

The legislation from father-and-son Republican lawmakers both saw debate Tuesday. One bill to give the governor direct appointment power over judicial vacancies cleared an initial reading in the Senate. Thats Senate Bill 140, carried by Sen. Keith Regier, a Kalispell Republican. The vote fell on party lines, 31-19, with GOP support and Democratic opposition. Sen. Diane Sands, D-Missoula, during the Senate floor debate called the bill a "power grab" to control the third branch of government. ...