From The K-B-L-G News Center...

Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg was released from the hospital yesterday and will continue recovering at home in Billings from injuries sustained in a boat crash on Flathead Lake last week that left one staffer with a serious brain injury. 

Rehberg is on crutches and is wearing a cast after surgeons repaired a broken left ankle.  Former Rehberg chief of staff Erik Iverson says Rehberg also has a minor head injury that doctors don't expect to cause any problems. 

The Congressman's deputy chief of staff Kristin Smith, who suffered several fractures, was also released yesterday and will be using crutches.  But state director Dustin Frost suffered a brain injury and remains sedated.  Iverson said he does not believe that Frost, who is from Sunburst, has regained consciousness since the accident - but doctors are hoping for a recovery. 

The boat was being driven by state Sen. Greg Barkus of Kalispell.  His wife, Kathy, was released from the hospital yesterday, but she says her husband remains in the intensive care unit.           

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