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DECEMBER 4, 2013 | 9

FREEZING FLATHEAD
Facts

A winter storm blew FIGURES
into the Flathead on
Dec. 2, covering the
roadways with snow
and ice and causing Numbers in the news
multiple accidents
across the valley. $12.3
Temperatures are
forecasted to remain
well below freezing BILLION
the rest of the week.
Combined spending by
GREG LINDSTROM
FLATHEAD BEACON
U.S. shoppers on Thanks-
giving and Black Friday, a

2.3 percent increase over
last year.

45

Road kill salvage
permits issued in the irst

week of the new state law
taking efect.

(STORY, PAGE 6)

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Woman Accused of Stabbing Husband
Number of properties in
Libby and Troy that the
Charged with Felony
EPA cleaned up in 2013,
21 more than the agency

originally planned on ad-
dressing.
AnnMari Helt Newton remains in Responding oicers found Chad Newton, 37, unresponsive in
jail on $75,000 bond
the kitchen with a stab wound on the left side of his chest. He was
taken to Kalispell Regional Medical Center for emergency sur-
gery and placed in the intensive care unit.
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The oicers also found AnnMari Newton on the phone with
By BEACON STAFF
dispatchers and directing the oicers inside the house.
On average, U.S.
A Whiteish woman accused of stabbing her husband during
Investigators say Newton told them she and her husband were farmers are about 15 years
an altercation has been charged with felony assault.
having and argument in the kitchen, and she was holding a knife. older than the broader
Flathead County prosecutors charged AnnMari Helt Newton, She allegedly told detectives that she “thrust the knife toward
39, with assault with a weapon on Nov. 27. As of Dec. 2, Newton Chad and stabbed him,” according to charging documents.
workforce, according to
was still being held at the Flathead County Detention Center with
According to Whiteish Police Chief Bill Dial, the couple has agriculture economist Carl
her bond set at $75,000.
two children who were home during the incident, but were not
Zulauf, who is raising con-
According to charging documents and police reports, Newton
injured. They were taken from the home by Child Protective Ser- cerns about the nation’s
was arrested on Nov. 25 after law enforcement received a report vices and placed in the custody of a family friend.
that a man had been stabbed in Whiteish on the 1100 block of Ob- Newton’s arraignment is scheduled for Dec. 19.
aging farmer population.
rien Avenue.

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