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class people without job-based coverage can shop for subsidized private plans, while low-income people are expected to be covered by an expanded Medicaid system. South Dakota has not yet decided whether to expand its Medicaid system.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Tim Johnson says he plans to visit areas of western South Dakota hard hit by an early fall blizzard.
• The Democrat says accompanying him will be U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary for Farm and Foreign Agriculture Services Michael Scuse.
• They'll talk to ranchers about livestock losses.
• The day of the trip was not released.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A mechanical test points away from foul play being a factor in the 1971 disappearance of two girls whose car was found last month, but investigators will weigh other evidence before drawing a conclusion, South Dakota's attorney general said Thursday.
• The 1960 Studebaker was in third gear, the highest, Marty Jackley said.
• "That evidence, standing alone, would not be consistent with foul play," he said. "Being in neutral would be consistent with foul play.
• "I think we need to be cautious and look at the entire file and all the evidence that's been discovered."
• Jackley also said a forensic pathologist in Sioux Falls confirmed that skeletal remains found inside the car after its discovery in September are consistent with being from two different people.
• The bones have been sent to the University of North Texas for identification using DNA testing, he said.
• The results could help bring closure to the families and allow proper burials and also might yield further evidence, Jackley said.
• Vermillion High School students Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson, both 17, were last seen in the car on their way to a party at a nearby gravel pit.
• The car was found upside down in an embankment in Brule Creek in southeast South Dakota.
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• VALLEY SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota farmer says most producers

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