On April 3, 1996, (25 years ago) a plane carrying US Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and 32 others crashed in Croatia, killing everyone on board. One would think it would be the top story on the 5 O'clock news. It wasn't. The top story was the arrest of Ted Kaczynski in Lincoln Montana. Some news stations in Montana are doing a story to mark the anniversary.

If memory serves me right,Montana had not one but two leading national news issues in spring of '96-Unabomber and Jordan Freeman standoff.