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Pierre standoff suspect gets more prison time
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- An Eagle Butte man ordered to spend 25 years in state prison for shooting a Pierre police officer has had an additional 20 years of federal prison time added to his sentence.
• Twenty-eight-year-old Jason Garreau was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday on a charge of assaulting a federal officer and a weapons count.
• The charges stem from an eight-hour standoff at a Pierre mobile home on Oct. 31, 2013, in which Garreau exchanged gunfire with officers. A city police officer was injured, and Garreau later pleaded guilty in state court to attempted murder.
• Garreau also pleaded guilty to the federal charges, and several other charges were dismissed, including some related to a shootout in Hyde County the day before the Pierre standoff. Garreau's cousin was killed in that shootout.
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Miss. GOP Senate candidates face likely runoff
DAVID ESPO, Associated Press
EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Locked in a race that won't end, Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran and tea party-backed challenger Chris McDaniel pointed toward a possible June 24 run-off after battling to a near-draw Tuesday in a primary that underscored Republican differences.
• Unofficial returns from 98 percent of the state's precincts showed McDaniel with slightly over 49 percent of the vote in a three-way race and Cochran with slightly less. It takes a majority by one candidate to avoid a run-off.
• "For too long, we've been silent. For too long, we sat still. For too long, we let them have their way with us," McDaniel told supporters late Tuesday in a slap at the Washington establishment.
• "It's looking like a runoff," conceded Rep. Gregg Harper, addressing a crowd of Cochran supporters.
• The Mississippi contest easily overshadowed races in seven other states, several of which sent GOP establishment-backed candidates into fall campaigns for Senate seats that Republicans have targeted in their drive to gain six seats and a majority.
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