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Worland man pleads guilty in Montana murders

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Worland man pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of second-degree murder and other crimes for shooting a couple and wounding their daughter when the family tried to help him along a road on Montana’s Crow Indian Reservation.

Jesus Deniz Mendoza, 19, faces life in prison under an agreement reached last month with federal prosecutors in which he acknowledged killing Jason an...