Tuesday,  May 21, 2013 • Vol. 14--No. 305 • 24 of 33 •  Other Editions

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"This is how we say we appreciate you and we want to thank you for all your accomplishments."
• About one-third of the 900 students in the school district are Indian. Crow Creek Chairman Brandon Sazue has called for an economic boycott of the town to protest the school board's decision.
• Student Christopher Rodriguez, who led the unsuccessful petition drive, said he plans to enroll at the University of South Dakota in the fall, but that he doesn't plan to stop pushing to have an honor song included at his high school's graduation. He has a younger sister at the school, and he hopes to hear an honor song at her graduation.
• "I'm coming back," he told the Argus Leader.
• Superintendent Debra Johnson remained in the armory until the last graduates and most of the audience had left. She told the Argus Leader that she thought the ceremony went well and that the honor song controversy didn't mar the day.
• "People were here for the graduates," she said.
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10 Things to Know for Today
The Associated Press

• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
• 1. OKLAHOMA TORNADO FLATTENS NEIGHBORHOODS, KILLS DOZENS
• At least 20 of the 51 victims of the storm were children caught in an elementary school in the eye of the storm, with a death toll expected to rise.
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• 2. AP PHOTOGRAPHER: 'ALL I COULD SEE WAS DESTRUCTION'
• Sue Ogrocki photographed children being pulled from the wreckage of the school, "a heaping mound of rubble too big to be a home."
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• 3. A RARE AND DEADLY COINCIDENCE
• Monday's powerful storm followed roughly the same route as a killer twister that slammed the region in 1999.
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• 4. EX-IRS CHIEF TO ANSWER CONGRESS ABOUT TEA PARTY TARGETING
• Former commissioner Douglas Shulman is testifying before a Senate committee

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