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SD couple sentenced for involuntary manslaughter
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Pine Ridge couple have been sentenced after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of their five-month-old son.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says 25-year-old Whitnee Eagle and 31-year-old Abraham Silas Red Cloud were each sentenced in federal court to nine months custody and three years of supervised release.
• Eagle and Red Cloud were indicted for involuntary manslaughter and felony child abuse and neglect last year, but pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in March.
• Johnson says Eagle and Red Cloud had been drinking in June last year when they rolled over onto their son who was sleeping in the same bed with them. The boy suffocated.
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AP News in Brief
To troops and furloughed Defense civilians, Hagel offers empathy but no hope for budget help
• JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- The audience gasped in surprise and gave a few low whistles as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivered the news that furloughs, which have forced a 20 percent pay cut on most of the military's civilian workforce, probably will continue next year and might worsen.
• "Those are the facts of life," Hagel told about 300 Defense Department employees, most of them middle-aged civilians, last week at an Air Force reception hall on a military base in Charleston.
• Future layoffs also are possible for the department's civilian workforce of more than 800,000 employees, Hagel said, if Congress fails to stem the cuts in the next budget year, which starts Oct. 1.
• On the heels of the department's first furlough day, and in three days of visits with members of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, Hagel played the unenviable role of messenger to a frustrated and fearful workforce coping with the inevitability of a spending squeeze at the end of more than a decade of constant and costly war.
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