Sunday,  January 20, 2013 • Vol. 13--No. 185 • 34 of 45 •  Other Editions

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Carlson scores 18, S Dakota St. drops IUPUI 80-68

• INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Brayden Carlson scored 18 points and the other four starters scored in double figures for South Dakota State in an 80-68 victory over IUPUI on Saturday.
• South Dakota State (15-6, 6-2 Summit) also got 12 points from Nate Wolters, 11 from Jordan Dykstra and 10 each from Tony Fiegen and Chad White.
• Carlson connected on three 3-point shots and grabbed seven rebounds. Wolters had seven assists.
• The South Dakota State bench also was productive, outscoring the IUPUI reserves 19-3.
• Mitchell Patton and Greg Rice each scored 17 points to lead IUPUI (6-16, 1-7). Donovan Gibbs scored 14 points and P.J. Hubert added 12.
• Patton had 11 rebounds and Gibbs had 10 rebounds.

Digital age prompting closure of base theaters
DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press

• ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. (AP) -- Stacey Darling loves watching family movies at the Ellsworth Air Force Base theater in South Dakota because it's so much more affordable than taking her three children to the multiplex in nearby Rapid City.
• Darling, whose husband is an airman, has been catching second-run films on base for about 2 1/2 years, and was there Saturday for the theater's last showing -- a screening of the animated movie "Hotel Transylvania." The movie theater is among 60 around the globe run by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service that is screening its last picture show amid the industry's conversion to digital projection.
• "We always come out for the cartoons," said Darling, of Grand Forks, N.D. "We like the family movies."
• Darling said she wishes she could go to the theater even more now that her husband, Senior Master Sgt. David Darling, has deployed to southwest Asia.
• It's just not cost effective for the exchange service to invest the $120,000 per theater needed to convert from 35 millimeter film to the new format at the theaters that are being closed, said spokesman Judd Anstey. Sixty theaters will make the upgrade.
• "At locations where customer attendance is decreased due to a preference for

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