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die -- kissing her daughter goodbye and assuring the older child that she would come back from the dead.
• The woman also told the court that she was repeatedly sexually abused by Perez for years, starting when she was 10. The Associated Press is not naming her because she is an alleged rape victim.
• The woman also testified that Perez had foretold the 2008 death of Jennifer Hutson year before she was killed in a collision with a dump truck in a neighboring county. Hutson's husband, David Quiring, choked up on the stand when he implied his wife had possibly commit

ted suicide.
• Perez was convicted in 1997 of child sex charges in Texas, but fled before sentencing and assumed a false identity.
• It's unclear when his group formed. They first lived in South Dakota, then moved together to Missouri, Kansas and Tennessee before authorities caught up with him in 2010 and convicted him on federal identity theft charges.
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SD Dems' congressional candidate faces tough task
CHET BROKAW,Associated Press

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Newly minted congressional nominee Matt Varilek expressed confidence Wednesday that he can topple Republican Kristi Noem from South Dakota's lone U.S. House seat, despite the challenges of running as a Democrat in a deeply conservative state.

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