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• The indictment says White Lightening was killed "during the perpetration of sexual abuse" and was physically incapable of communicating her unwillingness to have sex with Summers. No further details have been made available.
• "We have not commenced our investigation of the case but will do so soon," said Neil Fulton, head of the public defender's office for the Dakotas. "While these are significant charges, they are only charges. Mr. Summers remains presumed innocent and the government retains the burden to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt at his jury trial."
• U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon declined to comment.
• Trial has been scheduled for Aug. 19 in Bismarck. Summers has been ordered to be jailed until the results of a detention hearing scheduled for Monday.
• The Standing Rock reservation straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border.
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Senate candidates in SD split on health care law
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Two of the South Dakota candidates vying to serve in U.S. Senate want to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, while the other two want to keep and improve it.
• Former Gov. Mike Rounds, the Republican nominee for the seat being vacated by retiring Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson, said he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a market-based system that prompts competition. South Dakota used to have 17 companies providing insurance in the state, Rounds said, and the federally run marketplace serving South Dakotans offers only three options.
• "American families make good choices if they know that some companies will provide appropriate service and others will not," Rounds said. "It doesn't take long in the market for the bad apples to be found out."
• Democratic candidate Rick Weiland said the act should be improved, not repealed, and the law's problems stem from "big money calling the shots in Washington" and nixing a public option that would have forced private companies to offer more competitive policies.
• Weiland said Medicare, the federal health insurance program for people aged 65 and over, is an example of an efficiently run public program and he'd like to open it up to people of any age. His proposed Medicare Choice Act would create public-private competition and strengthen the current system by expanding the pool of insured to younger, healthier Americans, he said.
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