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• Brayden Carlson added 14 points and Cody Larson had 13 for South Dakota State, which shot 8 of 19 from beyond the arc and committed just four turnovers.
• Khufu Najee had 19 points for IUPUI, which shot 36.5 percent from the field and had just six assists, compared to the Jackrabbits' 18.
• IUPUI has now lost 14 of its last 15 contests and hasn't won a conference game since Dec. 27, 2012.

Sioux Falls police investigating shooting of teen

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Sioux Falls police are investigating a shooting that sent an 18-year-old man to the hospital.
• The incident happened about 6 p.m. Friday in 200 block of South Caley Place. Police say the victim was found in the street with a gunshot wound to the face.
• The man was transported to a local hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.
• Police have detained a juvenile suspect in the case.

AP News in Brief
AP Investigation: US military sex-crime cases in Japan show commanders' chaotic justice record

• TOKYO (AP) -- At U.S. military bases in Japan, most service members found culpable in sex crimes in recent years did not go to prison, according to internal Department of Defense documents. Instead, in a review of hundreds of cases filed in America's largest overseas military installation, offenders were fined, demoted, restricted to their bases or removed from the military.
• In about 30 cases, a letter of reprimand was the only punishment.
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1,000 records, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, describe hundreds of cases in graphic detail, painting a disturbing picture of how senior American officers prosecute and punish troops accused of sex crimes. The handling of allegations verged on the chaotic, with seemingly strong cases often reduced to lesser charges. In two rape cases, commanders overruled recommendations to court-martial and dropped the charges instead.
• Even when military authorities agreed a crime had been committed, the suspect was unlikely to serve time. Of 244 service members whose punishments were detailed in the records, only a third of them were incarcerated.
• The analysis of the reported sex crimes, filed between 2005 and early 2013,

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