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Suspect in N. Cheyenne murder returns to Montana
• BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- One of two suspects in the murder of a woman on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation has returned to Montana to face federal charges.
• Forty-four-year-old Garrett Sidney Wadda was booked into the Yellowstone County Detention Facility Tuesday after waiving extradition proceedings in Wyoming, where he was arrested last week.
• Wadda is due to be arraigned Wednesday in federal court on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse in the death of Hanna Harris. A conviction would mean a mandatory life sentence in prison.
• Harris, a 21-year-old single mother, disappeared July 4. Her body was found along a creek on the reservation four days later.
• A second suspect, 41-year-old Eugenia Ann Rowland, is being held in South Dakota. She faces a count of second-degree murder.
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Deadline brings high interest for health insurance
JUDY LIN, Associated Press
• SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A blizzard, jammed phone lines and unreliable websites failed to stop throngs of procrastinating Americans from trying to sign up for health coverage by the midnight Monday deadline for President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy initiative.
• In Louisiana, wait times for callers lasted up to two hours. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee received nearly 1,900 calls by midday compared with about 800 the previous Monday. And in California, where enrollments surged toward the Obama administration's original projection of 1.3 million, the deadline day volume forced the state exchange to switch off a key function on its website and encourage people to finish their applications in the days ahead.
• Across the nation, the interest in getting health insurance and avoiding a federal tax penalty was made clear in interviews with enrollment counselors and consumers.
• "I have not had a physical in over 15 years," said Dionne Gilbert, a 51-year-old uninsured woman from Denver who waited in a 90-minute line to get enrollment assistance. "I told myself, 'You need to do this. Your daughter loves you and needs you.'"
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