Sunday,  February 24, 2013 • Vol. 14--No. 220 • 18 of 27 •  Other Editions

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secured a 30-16 lead for the Jackrabbits. Back-to-back 3s from Canaan and Wilson trimmed South Dakota State's lead to 10 before the first half ended.
• During breaks in a game in which nine NBA scouts were in attendance, the top players from each team were talking about their future.
• "(Wolters) asked me where I was going to be at the end of this season," Canaan said. "I told him just to find me on Twitter or something and we could keep talking. He's a great kid . and I guess he just wanted to keep the conversation going."

ND school investigating fans in KKK-style hoods

• DIRK LAMMERS,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A North Dakota high school principal says appropriate action is being taken after three students briefly donned Ku Klux Klan-style white robes and hoods Friday night during a state hockey semifinal game.
• The photo caused an uproar on Twitter when it was posted by 19-year-old Shane Schuster, who was seated with some friends at Ralph Engelstad Arena when something in the student section across the rink caught his eye.
• "I thought, 'Are those KKK hoods?' I couldn't believe it," Schuster said. "I was shocked."
• Schuster said he focused his camera phone and snapped a photo, later uploading it to Twitter.
• Kristopher Arason, Red River's principal, said the school's investigation determined that the students put on the attire just after Red River's first goal and wore it for about 30 seconds to a minute. The teens removed the outfits after students in the section told them it was offensive, he said.
• "We, as a school, are extremely disappointed with the behavior of these three students," Arason said in a statement sent to The Associated Press on Saturday. "This behavior is not a representation of our school or student body."
• Arason said administrators were notified of the incident at the completion of the game. The students and their parents have been contacted and "appropriate action is being taken," he said.
• Arason did not indicate what disciplinary action, if any, the three unidentified students could face.
• Red River topped Fargo's Davies High School 2-0 to advance to Saturday night's North Dakota Boys State Hockey Tournament title game against Grafton-Park River.
• Davies High School is named in honor of Ronald Davies, the former federal judge from Fargo whose 1957 rulings integrated Central High School in Little Rock,

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