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WHITEFISH WOMAN GETS DEFERRED SENTENCE IN HUSBAND’S DEATH
A Whitefish woman who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the stab- bing death of her husband has been given a 10-year suspended prison sentence.
AnnMari Newton was sentenced on Oct. 29 in District Court in Kalispell for the Nov. 25 stabbing of 37-year-old Chad Newton. He died at a Kalispell hospital on Dec. 29 after his family took him off life support.
Newton pleaded guilty in August.
Witnesses told investigators that the couple had previous violent arguments.
Defense attorney Sean Hinchey said Newton stabbed her husband in self-de- fense.
KALISPELL MAN CHARGED IN GAS STATION ROBBERY
A robbery in Evergreen was foiled on Oct. 27, after the suspect’s car wouldn’t start in front of the gas station he had just robbed, according to court docu- ments.
Jeremy Curtis Conder, 29, was ar- rested soon after the robbery and re- mains detained at the Flathead County Jail. He has been charged with felony robbery.
According to charging documents, Conder walked into the Evergreen Town Pump wearing a hat and a green mask over his face. He came to the counter and set a gun down, pointed at the clerk and said “money.” A second clerk came over and said “really?” and Conder nodded. The first clerk handed Conder an undis- closed amount of money. Conder walked outside to a gold GMC truck but was un- able to start the vehicle.
While Conder sat in the vehicle try- ing to figure out what to do, a customer wrote down the license plate of the vehi- cle: CONDER1. Soon after, officers from the Kalispell Police Department and Flathead County Sheriff’s Office arrived and arrested Conder.
If convicted, Conder could face 40 years in prison and a fine of $50,000.
KALISPELL HOSPITAL OFFICIALS DISPEL FALSE EBOLA RUMOR
Officials with Kalispell Regional Medical Center are trying to dispel a false rumor on social media and online that the hospital received a patient with “Ebola-like symptoms” last week.
In a company-wide memo that was published online Tuesday, the hospital said it thoroughly investigated the ru- mor and found that it was “categorically untrue.”
According to a post that made rounds
on the Internet and social media this week, the hospital had allegedly received a patient Oct. 22 who recently returned from West Africa and had a high fever, was vomiting and had diarrhea. The story went on to say that the patient was transferred from Kalispell to St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula for additional
“Usually we don’t respond to rumors like this but we felt we needed to in this instance because there is so much public concern about Ebola,” KRMC public in- formation officer Allison Meikicke told the Beacon. “This story is simply not true.”
Meikicke said the hospital fielded numerous calls about the rumor.
“We take these potential health cri- ses very seriously. We also take rumors regarding KRMC seriously,” the hospi- tal’s Chief Operating Officer, Dan Wil- son, and Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Jeff Tjaden, said in the statement.
Hospital officials launched a thor- ough investigation and deemed that it was false. It is very unlikely there would be an Ebola case in Northwest Montana or Kalispell, hospital officials said, but despite the remote chances of it hap- pening, the hospital is still preparing for the possibility. KRMC, along with North Valley Hospital in Whitefish, have both identified quarantine rooms within their facilities just in case someone with Ebola symptoms comes to the hospital. Both hospitals have also put together an Ebola emergency response team that is meeting almost daily.
While the epicenter of the outbreak is in Africa, specifically Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, there have been four cases reported in the U.S., including one fatality.
MONTANA
REPORT: MAJORITY OF MONTANA’S WATERS IMPAIRED
Montana’s lakes and streams have a number of issues with the quality of wa- ter, a state report says.
In the 2014 edition of its Water Qual- ity Integrated Report, the Montana De- partment of Environmental Quality describes the impairments of streams, lakes and groundwater and the safety of drinking water over the past two years. The biennial report on water conditions is required by the U.S. Clean Water Act.
Samples from more than 22,000 miles of streams and 518,000 acres of lakes show that more than 70 percent of Montana’s rivers, streams and lakes are not supporting aquatic life, due to too much sediment, chemical pollution or bank and vegetation degradation, which contributes to increased water tempera- tures.
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