Man pleads guilty to reduced charge in arson homicide

On Wednesday, a Kalispell man accused of murdering his father in an arson fire withdrew his not guilty plea to one count of deliberate homicide and instead pleaded guilty to an amended count of criminal endangerment and entered into a binding, no-contest plea agreement.

In November, Jason David Weldele pleaded not guilty to one felony count of deliberate homicide in the death of his 63-year-old father, Daniel Gerald Weldele...