Sunday,  Dec. 29, 2013 • Vol. 16--No. 166 • 15 of 30

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Carlson and Jordan Dykstra sealed the win.
• Cody Larson scored 14 points and Jordan Dykstra had 13.
• Nelson Kirksey led UMKC with 16 and Hall had 15.

SD prison officials searching for missing inmate

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota prison officials are looking for a female inmate who failed to return to a work release center in Sioux Falls.
• Officials say 25-year-old Courtney Mitchell was due return to the Minnehaha County Correction Center Friday afternoon following her shift at a work release job.
• Mitchell is serving a four-year prison sentence for grand theft out of Lincoln County and a 1-year sentence for possession of a controlled substance in Minnehaha County.

AP News in Brief
13 killed by suicide bombing at railway station in southern Russia, scores wounded

• MOSCOW (AP) -- At least 13 people were killed and scores were wounded Sunday by a suicide bomber at a railway station in southern Russia, officials said, heightening concern about terrorism ahead of February's Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
• The National Anti-Terrorist Committee said the explosion at the central railway station in the city of Volgograd was set off by a suicide bomber.
• Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the nation's top investigative agency, the Investigative Committee, said that at least 13 people died in the blast. Russia's Health Ministry said about 50 people were injured.
• No one immediately claimed responsibility for Sunday's attack, but it came several months after Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov called for new attacks against civilian targets in Russia, including the Sochi Games.
• Suicide bombings and other attacks linked to Islamic rebels have rocked Russia for years.
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5 years in, Obama's presidency marked by fits and starts, high expectations turned to failure

• WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was a moment for Barack Obama to savor.

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