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Western Illinois edges South Dakota 73-71
• VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) -- Ceola Clark's basket as time ran out gave Western Illinois a 73-71 win over South Dakota Thursday night.
• South Dakota never led in the game, but Juevol Myles hit a 3 with 7 seconds left to finally draw South Dakota even at 71 before Clark's game-winner from the lane. Clark finished 8 of 13 from the floor, including 4 of 8 from 3-point range.
• Clark led the Leathernecks (4-3) with 20 points in the Summit League opener for both teams. Don McAvoy III added 16 points, Terell Parks 14 and Jordan Foster scored 11.
• Myles had 21 points, 15 of them in the second half, for the Coyotes (3-4). Karim Rowson added 19 points -- 17 in the second half.
• The Leathernecks led 31 -19 at the half, but South Dakota, which shot 27 percent in the first half, hit 64 percent in the second half to get back into it.
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Report: South Dakota breaks child-protection laws
KRISTI EATON,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota willfully has violated federal law by removing too many American Indian children from their homes and placing them in foster care with non-Indian families, the state's Indian Child Welfare Act directors said in a report they plan send to Congress.
• Six of the state's nine directors representing each of the nine tribes in South Dakota met Thursday on the Yankton Sioux Indian Reservation to approve the report that will be to Congress within the next few weeks.
• The report is in response to a National Public Radio series last year that said the state routinely broke the Indian Child Welfare Act and disrupted the lives of hundreds of Native American families each year. Federal law requires that Native American children removed from homes be placed with relatives or put in foster care with other Native American families except in unusual circumstances. After the series aired, six members of Congress wrote to Indian Affairs at the Department of the Interior asking whether the NPR report was accurate and, if so, what the Bureau of Indian Affairs plans to do about it.
• Federal officials said a summit would be held in South Dakota in the summer of 2012 to address concerns raised in the series, but that summit has not taken place, so the Indian Child Welfare Act directors prepared their own report to send to law (Continued on page 21)
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