Thursday,  May 31, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 322 • 18 of 40 •  Other Editions

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reservations across the country serving 78,000 youth annually.
• Saturday's anniversary celebration begins at 12 p.m. It will include a traditional ceremony followed by a Lakota lunch.
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Witness says Kansas commune leader foretold death
ROXANA HEGEMAN,Associated Press

• WICHITA, Kan. -- The leader and so-called seer of a central Kansas commune predicted Patricia Hughes' death. Weeks later, the young mother kissed her 2-year-old daughter goodbye and reassured another child that she would come back from the dead, a witness testified Wednesday.
• The young woman, who was 12 years old when Hughes was found dead in a

swimming pool in 2003, took the stand at the preliminary hearing for Daniel U. Perez, 52. Perez is charged with first-degree premeditated murder in Hughes' slaying. The Associated Press is not identifying the woman because she is an alleged rape victim.
• Perez -- who in the past used the false name Lou Castro -- also faces multiple counts of lying on life insurance applications, rape, sodomy, criminal threat, making false statements on auto credit applica

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