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potential life sentences if convicted.
• Family members of Harris said Wadda and Rowland were the last two people seen with her before she disappeared. The suspects were seen packing a pickup truck with their belongings and leaving town while the search for the Harris was underway, said Kateri Foote, an aunt of Harris.
• It was unclear how Harris came into contact with the suspects. Theda Foote and other family members said they did not know each other.
• At the hearing, U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Carolyn Ostby appointed public defender Steve Babcock to represent Wadda.
• About a month after Harris' body was found, frustration with the pace of the investigation prompted a rally and march in Lame Deer attended by about 200 people.
• The victim's mother, Melinda Harris Limberhand, demanded justice for victims of unsolved murders on reservations across the U.S.
• Even in the wake of last week's arrests, relatives of Harris expressed lingering disappointment with how the case was handled.
• "For this it took months," said Merlin Sioux, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council and a distant uncle of the victim.
• An initial court appearance for Rowland has not been set. She has not entered a plea.
Slow flood insurance relief pains SD landlord
NORA HERTEL, Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Despite the passage of a federal policy to ease spikes in flood insurance rates, implementation lag time is leaving at least one South Dakotan in a lurch.
• Two of Cory Gollnick's seven rental properties in Aberdeen have or will see flood insurance rate increases this year through the National Flood Insurance Policy. The field engineer is considering his options and may drop one policy. He says he has a lot of unanswered questions for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which oversees the program.
• "My renewal this year is going to be extremely high unless FEMA gets this new reform implemented by then," Gollnick said.
• A 2012 federal policy sought to make the cost of national flood insurance rates reflect actual risk. That caused rates to spike starting last year. The rate increases were driven by a need to relieve the $24 billion debt of the NFIP, which offers subsidized flood insurance to 1.1 million Americans, including over 1,600 policies in South Dakota.
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