Bill Clinton plans 4-stop campaign swing
INDIANAPOLIS – Former President Bill Clinton will make a four-stop campaign swing through Indiana on Thursday, including an appearance in the small town \nof Clinton.\nThe Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign says the other events will be in the southern Indiana communities of Boonville, Jasper and Vincennes. Clinton has a population of about 5,000 and is north of Terre Haute, where Hillary Clinton visited \nlast month.\nDetails on times and locations were not immediately announced.\nIndiana’s May 6 primary will determine the share Clinton and Barack Obama will win of the state’s 72 pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have already made a combined 20 Indiana campaign stops.
Woman dies when \nher motorcycle \ncollides with SUV
BEAN BLOSSOM, Ind. – Police say a woman was killed when she crashed her motorcycle into the back of an SUV as her husband looked on.\nGina Coleman of Noblesville was pronounced dead at the scene near Bean Blossom in northern Brown County on Sunday afternoon.\nAn accident report from the Brown County Sheriff’s Department says the 43-year-old woman was following the SUV on State Road 135 when traffic slowed to let a dog cross the road.\nColeman was unable to stop in time and struck the SUV. The collision threw her from her motorcycle into a ditch. Her husband, Henry Coleman, who was following his wife on his motorcycle, was not injured.\nThe cause of the accident remains under investigation.
Notre Dame gets $20 million gift for biological research facility
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The University of Notre Dame has received a $20 million gift to support a laboratory that works to alleviate disease among the world’s poorest populations.\nThe estate of alumnus Frank Eck will support the laboratory, which will be renamed the Eck Family Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at Notre Dame.\nThe facility has conducted research for more than four decades, primarily with staff from the Department of Biological Sciences.\nEck was a 1944 Notre Dame graduate. He was chairman of Advanced Drainage Systems of Columbus, Ohio. He died in December 2007 at age 84.\nEck’s contributions to the university now total more than $55 million.
