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NEWS

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of the Week

AN INDEX OF
RECENT
NEWSMAKERS

CASTLE DOCTRINE
The Montana "stand your
ground" law is under scrutiny

after Missoula man was
charged in the shooting death
of a 17-year-old exchange
student in his garage. The
shooter, who is charged with
deliberate homicide, said
he felt threatened and his
attorney has cited the state's
so-called castle doctrine.

PLOWING
Plow crews in Glacier
National Park are inching
their way closer to Logan
Pass. As of this week, plows
had reached Russ’ Slide just
past The Loop. Oicials hope
to open the road to Avalanche
this week.

(STORY, PAGE 9)

Tracee Peterson sits at her parents' home in Troy, seven months after she was in a coma because her husband, Josh Peterson, allegedly beat her
with a bat.
LAYOFFS
JUSTIN FRANZ | FLATHEAD BEACON
Tracee's Road Home
Stillwater Mining Co., the
state’s largest mining
company, says it will have to
layof or buyout nearly 100
workers in order to survive.
As of last week, 48 non-union
workers had been let go.
Seven months after she was beaten and induced into a coma,

Troy's Tracee Peterson puts her life back together

OIL TRAIN
For the sixth time in ten By JUSTIN FRANZ of the Beacon
It was just seven months ago, on Sept. 28, 2013, that
months, an oil train has Hanson found his daughter lying on the loor of her nearby
derailed and exploded in TROY – Spring has arrived here and the evidence of home, bloody, beaten and grasping to life. Hanson knelt
North America. On April the changing seasons is obvious looking out Ed Hanson's down, held Tracee's hand and prayed that EMTs and po-
30, a CSX train derailed window, just a few blocks from the Kootenai River in Troy. lice would arrive soon.
near downtown Lynchburg, The gloom of a long dark winter has been replaced with When they did, police found Tracee with her mouth
Virginia forcing a large
evacuation. No one was the vibrant and lush greens of spring. Hanson's daughter, illed with blood and extreme swelling in the nose, cheek
Tracee Peterson, 38, said she's ready for the new season and eye areas, the result of a vicious attack with a baseball
injured in the incident.
and a summer of “camping, ishing and getting out of cell bat that broke every bone in her head. While Tracee was
phone range.”
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