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GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) - Extradition hearings have been set for two men held in North Dakota in the kidnapping of a Montana teacher who is presumed dead.

A judge in Williston, N.D., on Monday set the hearings for Feb. 14.

The men - 47-year-old Lester Waters Jr. and 22-year-old Michael Spell, both of Parachute, Colo. - have been jailed in Williston since Jan. 13. They are fighting extradition to Montana, where they face charges of aggravated kidnapping, which carries a maximum sentence of death in that state.

The two are accused of kidnapping 43-year-old Sherry Arnold of Sidney, Mont. She last was seen leaving her home to go for a run on the morning of Jan. 7.

Waters and Spell qualified as indigent and were appointed public defenders.

Each has a bond of $2.5 million.