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Sen. Max Baucus and his wife, Wanda, may be splitting after 25 years... Baucus, a Democrat who is running for his sixth six-year term this fall... "In 25 years of spirited marriage, it is natural for differences of opinion to arise..."

By CARRIE SCHUMAKER Associated Press Writer June 2, 2004, 12:03 PM EDT WASHINGTON -- The wife of Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., reached a deal Wednesday with federal prosecutors to avoid prosecution on a misdemeanor assault charge that stemmed from a dispute with another woman in a garden center parking lot.

Wanda Baucus and her lawyer say they plan to vigorously fight a misdemeanor assault charge that was brought against her after an argument over mulch at a Washington, D.C., garden center. "This will not be over until the big bell rings out in the end," the wife of Montana Democratic Sen. Max Baucus said when reached at her Washington home. The incident between Wanda Baucus and Tierney Augusta Barron took place on April 20 at Johnson's Garden Center. Baucus was charged with simple assault on April 21 and is scheduled to appear in D.C. Superior Court Monday morning. The main...

Dovish Wife Pecks at Sen. Baucus, Praises Saddam Poor Sen. Max Baucus. To trick Montanans into re-electing him he did everything possible to fudge his identity as a Democrat and all but licked President Bush's cowboy boots. Now his appeasement activist of a wife is causing him problems. The senator's wife, Wanda, a painter and anthropologist, has gone so far as to desecrate the American flag by replacing the stars with doves on an appeasement poster prominently displayed at their home in snooty Georgetown. "We are way out of line" and have no right to fight Saddam Hussein, Mrs. B...

WASHINGTON -- The wife of a U.S. senator is in trouble with the law Wanda Baucus is the wife of Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana. She is accused of assaulting a woman Tuesday at Johnson's Garden Center on Van Ness Street, Northwest. Mrs. Baucus was released Wednesday afternoon after an appearance in D.C. Superior Court. She was officially charged with assault in court. The incident happened in the parking lot of the garden center. Sources told News4 that Mrs. Baucus was upset because another customer was getting help with mulch ahead of her. Sources told News4's Pat Collins that...