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(01/18/10 5:14pm)
In this undated photo provided by the University of Southern Indiana, Southern Indiana center Jeron Lewis is shown. Athletic Department spokesman Ray Simmons says the 21-year-old Lewis collapsed on the court with about 4 minutes left in Thursday night's game in Owensboro. He died at a local hospital just before 10 p.m.
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>INDIANAPOLIS – Former Republican Rep. Mike Sodrel announced Monday he was running again for Congress, setting up a possible fifth consecutive campaign against Democratic Rep. Baron Hill in southern Indiana’s 9th District.Sodrel sent an e-mail to supporters announcing his bid for the Republican nomination, although another GOP candidate plans to argue it’s time for a new person to challenge Hill.The Hill-Sodrel campaigns have featured numerous personal attacks, with Sodrel being dubbed “Millionaire Mike” and allegations that Hill sucker-punched Sodrel after a 2002 debate.Sodrel’s announcement didn’t mention Hill, but it took swipes at President Barack Obama and Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.“The Obama administration and Pelosi’s Congress are doing all the wrong things,” he said. “You don’t pull a country out of an economic slump by hurting the people who do the hiring. Additional taxes, government takeovers and programs like ‘cap and trade’ would do just that.”Hill and Sodrel have faced each other in each congressional election since 2002. Sodrel won the seat in 2004, but Hill recaptured it two years later. Hill won the 2008 election with nearly 58 percent of the vote.Hill is in his fifth term and is a leader of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of moderate and conservative congressional Democrats. He has been criticized by conservatives for voting in support of the House health care overhaul bill.Hill’s spokeswoman, Katie Moreau, did not immediately respond to a phone message Monday requesting comment.Attorney Todd Young of Bloomington and real-estate investor Travis Hankins of Columbus, Ind., have been campaigning for months for the Republican nomination, which will be decided in the May primary.Both said Monday they intend to remain in the race.Young has been endorsed by several Republican state office holders and held a Bloomington fundraiser with former Vice President Dan Quayle. He pointed out that Sodrel received just 38 percent of the vote in the 2008 election, while Republican presidential candidate John McCain and all statewide Republican candidates won in the predominantly rural district.“The voters spoke just months ago,” Young said. “I think people are ready for a fresh face.”Hankins said he regarded himself as the most conservative candidate in the race and that he expected 2010 would be “a great year for conservatives.”Sodrel in the 1970s founded a Jeffersonville-based bus and trucking company that made him a multimillionaire. He spent more than $1 million of his own money on his first congressional campaign in 2002.
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A former Purdue University student has pleaded guilty to charges in an alcohol-fueled prank in which a friend was fatally shot.William Calderon, 22, of Fort Wayne said during a court hearing Monday that he, his roommate and a hometown friend had been drinking at his off-campus apartment a couple days before classes started in August.Calderon said he and his roommate decided to scare 21-year-old Landon Siela of Fort Wayne by pointing guns at him when he left the bathroom. But Calderon said the gun held by 23-year-old Cory Lynch of Carmel fired, striking Siela in the throat.Calderon faces up to a year in jail on the misdemeanor charge of pointing a firearm. Lynch is scheduled to face trial starting Feb. 2 on reckless homicide and other charges.
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(12/11/09 5:11am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Talk of expanding the NCAA tournament is almost always done in public, most notably by Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim in 2006.Now the NCAA is looking into it behind closed doors – at least preliminarily.Rekindling discussion of a popular topic outside the organization, the NCAA has held early-stage talks about expanding its men’s basketball tournament and possibly moving it from broadcast to cable.But don’t worry, purists. No changes are imminent.“We’re just in a due-diligence phase of examining all of our assets and among those things is men’s basketball,” said NCAA senior vice president of basketball and business strategies Greg Shaheen on Thursday. “Certainly, with all of the other championships, we’re studying structure, schedule and format on all of them. There are no talks as it relates to a particular topic. It’s just part of our due-diligence process.”The impetus for the conversations revolves around the NCAA’s 11-year, $6 billion contract with CBS.The NCAA can opt out of the final three years of the contract after this season. The organization’s brass has eyed the opt-out for several years, following the orders of late NCAA president Myles Brand to look at every possibility for all 88 of its championships — the men’s basketball tournament included.“We’re having very general study and conversation as we go,” said Shaheen. “We’ve been working on this phase of the process for years. When I took over the contracts in early ’04, Dr. Brand’s very first directive to me was to make sure we’re readily on position for the due-diligence phase several years from now — and now is the time.”The NCAA tournament expanded from 48 to 64 teams in 1985 and expanded to the current 65-team bracket in 2001, when the number of automatic bids was increased from 30 to 31.The idea of expanding the tournament has been raised numerous times throughout the years.Boeheim said three years ago at a meeting of the National Association of Basketball Coaches that the tournament should add four, maybe six, more teams. Others have called to raise it to 80 teams or make it 96 and fold in the National Invitation Tournament. Former UCLA coach John Wooden has said the tournament should include all the teams in Division I, which exceeds 300 this season.Purists want to leave it as is.“Most of the discussions have been done in a public forum, and there are varied perspectives and models out there,” Shaheen said.The NCAA also has contacted various networks about the possibility of moving the tournament from broadcast to cable.The organization already has a contract for 23 of its championships with ESPN, which signed a lucrative deal with the Bowl Championship Series last year, and syndicates others with various cable and video outlets.If the opt-out does happen, CBS isn’t likely to go down without a fight. The network has broadcast the NCAA tournament since 1982 and isn’t inclined to let one of its biggest sports assets go away easily.CBS spokeswoman LeslieAnne Wade declined to comment.
(12/10/09 9:58pm)
IU professor and Nobel Prize laureate in Economic Sciences Professor Elinor Ostrom, left, laughs with Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine Professor Jack W. Szostak during the Nobel banquet in the Stockholm Town Hall Thursday.
(12/10/09 7:34pm)
Professor Elinor Ostrom, left, receives the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden during the Nobel Prize awards ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden Thursday.
(12/10/09 7:10pm)
Professor Elinor Ostrom, left, receives the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden during the Nobel Prize awards ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 10, 2009.
(10/28/09 3:52am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>ATLANTA – A federal court has dismissed an appeal by a Christian fraternity that tried to force the University of Florida to recognize it as an official organization.The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Tuesday found the controversy was moot because the university had amended its policy and allowed Beta Upsilon Chi to register.The fraternity had said inviting non-Christians would undermine its mission and argued the university’s refusal to recognize it threatened its core beliefs. The school said school-supported student groups should be open to all.But the university changed its policy in January. It said the appeal was now “merely academic,” and the three-judge panel in Atlanta agreed and dismissed the case.
(10/21/09 1:30am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>WEST LAFAYETTE – Investigators ruled that two small fires in the basement of Purdue University’s Elliott Hall of Music were intentionally set and were searching for a man seen running from the building.The fire Monday night forced about 900 students from the building as they were taking a calculus test.Campus Police Chief John Cox said the fires caused minor damage to a room in which band instruments are stored and around a bulletin board in a hallway. No injuries were reported.Firefighters quickly extinguished the blazes after arriving at about 8:30 p.m. Monday.
(09/16/09 2:44pm)
In this May 5, 2004, photo, Mel Simon, right, looks towards his brother, Herb Simon, during an interview in their office in Indianapolis. A spokesman says billionaire shopping mall magnate and Indiana Pacers co-owner Mel Simon died Friday. He was 82.
(09/14/09 11:10pm)
Serena Williams and her sister Venus examine the championship trophy after winning the women's doubles championship over Cara Black, of Zimbabwe, and Liezel Huber, of the United States, at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York on Monday.
(05/13/09 6:53pm)
In this May 4, 2009 photo, a flooded field is shown at a farm in Newburgh, Ind. The soggiest April in decades has left Indiana farmers far behind in their annual sprint to plant the state's corn crop, a delay that could cut farmers' yields, and profits, if fields don't dry out within the next two weeks.
(05/13/09 6:33pm)
This April 29, 2009, file photo shows stocks of antiviral treatment, Tamiflu, at a warehouse in an undisclosed location in the United Kingdom. For years, Britain has been preparing for the possibility of a flu pandemic. Now, with the arrival of swine flu confirmed here, the threat of a pandemic - a global outbreak of flu spreading rapidly because it is a new type of virus to which few, if any, people have resistance - appears a closer reality. The government's chief medical adviser Liam Donaldson said: " We have enough antivirals to treat half the population of the U.K. if they become ill."
(05/10/09 5:59pm)
While wearing a President Obama mask, Michael Terry, left, of Falls Church, Va., attracts some attention from a fellow protester during an anti-abortion protest Friday April 17, 2009 at the main gate of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.
(05/10/09 4:49pm)
Emergency crews from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Butler County and Poplar Bluff clean up the scene of a double fatal accident on Highway 53, about three miles south of Poplar Bluff, Mo., Friday, May 8, 2009. The vehicle was traveling south when gusty storm winds apparently uprooted a large oak tree, which fell on the vehicle, killing both occupants.
(01/15/09 5:49am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Arctic air extended its grip Wednesday with below-zero temperatures stretching from Montana to northern New England and frost nipping the Gulf Coast.A few ski areas in Vermont and northern Minnesota closed for the day because of the cold – 38 below zero at International Falls, with the wind chill during the night estimated at 50 below.The temperature at Bolton, Vt., was 10 below zero, and operators of the Bolton Valley ski resort feared that skiers could freeze if a lift malfunctioned, said spokesman Josh Arneson. “Getting people off a lift can take time,” he said.Schools from Iowa to Pennsylvania opened late so kids would not have to be out in the coldest part of the morning. Some schools closed.Blowing snow that cut visibility was the problem in the Chicago area. Airlines canceled more than 300 flights at O’Hare International Airport. And in nearby northwest Indiana, state police said one person was killed in a chain reaction crash involving about 20 vehicles on the Indiana Toll Road.Commuters in Albany, N.Y., faced a chill of six degrees, with brisk wind making it feel like 15 below zero, but some people claimed they didn’t mind.“I’m a cold weather fan,” said Jeff Plant of Colonie, N.Y., as he sat reading a newspaper at an Albany coffee shop. “I like to see some cold weather in the winter.” Later, he said, he planned to go for a walk “to get some sun.”