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• Abraham Yellow Horse, of Pine Ridge, is charged with escape from custody. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
• Authorities say Yellow Horse was serving the remainder of a federal sentence at Community Alternatives of the Black Hills when he left without permission in December.
• Sentencing is scheduled for June 3.
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AP News in Brief
City of broken glass: Russian region labors to replace acres of windows smashed in meteor fall
• CHELYABINSK, Russia (AP) -- A small army of workers is laboring to replace the estimated 200,000 square meters (50 acres) of windows shattered by the shock wave from a meteor that exploded over Russia's Chelyabinsk region.
• The astonishing Friday morning event blew out windows in more than 4,000 buildings in the region, mostly in the capital city of the same name and injured some 1,200 people, largely with cuts from the flying glass.
• Fifty of them remain hospitalized, but their injuries are reported to be not life-threatening.
• Regional governor Mikhail Yurevich on Saturday said damage from the explosion is estimated at 1 billion rubles ($33 million).
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In budget impasses, warnings of how cuts will hurt public could be real -- or prove exaggerated
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Get ready for two weeks of intensifying warnings about how crucial, popular government services are about to wither -- including many threats that could eventually come true.
• President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans made no progress last week in heading off $85 billion in budget-wide cuts that automatically start taking effect March 1. Lacking a bipartisan deal to avoid them and hoping to heap blame and pressure on GOP lawmakers, the administration is offering vivid details about the cuts' consequences: trimmed defense contracts, less secure U.S. embassies, furloughed air traffic controllers.
• Past administrations have seldom hesitated to spotlight how budget standoffs would wilt programs the public values.
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