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(08/29/07 3:47am)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Defensive tackle Corey Simon agreed to terms Tuesday with the Tennessee Titans and will try to resume his career after not playing at all in 2006.\nThe Indianapolis Colts released Simon on Aug. 4 after he failed a physical at the start of training camp. Simon took a physical with the Titans a week ago and was expected to be at practice later Tuesday.\n“Corey brings a combination of run-stuffing size and pass-rushing ability to the defensive tackle position,” general manager Mike Reinfeldt said in a statement. “Prior to last season, he has been a consistent and productive player who contributed to playoff teams and we are excited to see him get a second chance here with the Titans to prove he still has that ability.”\nSimon had arthroscopic knee surgery but was placed on the non-football illness/injury list Oct. 5 with an undisclosed ailment a year after signing a five-year, $30 million contract with the Colts.\nHe was the sixth pick overall in 2000 by the Philadelphia Eagles and a Pro Bowler in 2003. He spent five seasons with Philadelphia and had 270 tackles and 32 sacks, but the Eagles released him just before the 2005 season because he refused to sign a one-year franchise tender.\nIf healthy, he could help a defense that ranked 30th in the NFL against the run last year, giving up 144.6 yards per game.
(08/27/07 3:58am)
DETROIT – The New York Yankees hit the ball hard Sunday. The Detroit Tigers just kept making all the plays.\nThe Tigers used three early homers and three late defensive gems to beat the Yankees 5-4, and can win their first series since mid-July with a victory in the series finale Monday night.\n“We’ve had some bad moments this year, but the one thing about this team is that they always give it everything they have,” Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. “That’s the thing that makes a manager proud.”\nThe Tigers moved within 4 1/2 games of the Seattle Mariners in the wild-card race. Detroit began the day 2 1/2 games behind Cleveland in \nthe AL Central.\n“We knew how much we needed this one,” said Tigers reliever Joel Zumaya, who pitched 1 2/3 scoreless innings. “A big game against the Yankees means a lot of emotion.”\nNew York fell 2 1/2 games behind Seattle, and 7 1/2 behind Boston in the AL East.\n“We’re all right,” manager Joe Torre said.\nAfter third baseman Brandon Inge made a spectacular play in the eighth, part-time first baseman Carlos Guillen bailed out Tigers closer Todd Jones with two tough plays in the ninth.\nHideki Matsui started the inning with a grounder between first and second, but Guillen, who moved from shortstop to first before the eighth inning, ranged far to his right to get the ball, then threw across his body to Jones covering first.\n“That was an incredible play,” Jones said. “I didn’t think he could get to the ball, but when he did, I figured I better get myself over to the bag.”\nAfter Jason Giambi’s single, Guillen snared Robinson Cano’s hard-hit grounder and started a game-ending 3-6-3 double play.\n“They caught everything we hit,” Torre said. “With our offense, normally we can overcome that.”\nGuillen, Detroit’s All-Star shortstop, has been playing first base in the late innings of games because of a bad back.
(08/06/07 12:05am)
Nearly 100 countries speaking at the first U.N. General Assembly meeting on climate change signaled strong support for negotiations on a new international deal to tackle global warming. There was so much interest among worried nations, many facing drought, floods and searing heat, that the two-day meeting was extended for an extra day so more countries could describe their climate-related problems, how they are coping and the help they need.
(08/05/07 5:28pm)
INDIANAPOLIS – A voting machine company must pay Indiana more than $350,000 in civil penalties and investigative costs for 198 violations of Indiana election law, an administrative law judge has ruled.\nIndianapolis-based MicroVote General Corp., which provided voting equipment to 47 Indiana counties, including Monroe County, during the last election, came under investigation last year after allegations that the company sold uncertified machines.\nAdministrative Law Judge J. Lee McNeely indicated in his order that voting equipment companies must comply with state laws to preserve the integrity of elections.\nAccording to the findings, MicroVote marketed uncertified voting equipment between Oct. 1, 2005, and April 28, 2006, negotiating more than $400,000 worth of new sales contracts in 10 counties, according to a Friday news release from the Indiana secretary of state’s office.\nThe company had discovered its equipment could not handle split-precinct and straight-ticket voting – functions required under Indiana law.\nAs early as April 22, 2006, MicroVote knew one of its systems was not operational, the release states, but concealed that from the Indiana Election Commission until later that summer. The 47 counties that used the voting equipment in the May 2006 primary elections did not meet Indiana’s legal standards.\nThe Associated Press left a message seeking comment with MicroVote on Friday.
(07/30/07 12:56am)
A 19-year-old man was hospitalized Wednesday after he was injured at the Monroe County Fair.\nVan Buren Township Fire Chief Tim Deckard said the man was unconscious with a head injury when emergency personnel arrived and appeared to have been trampled by a steer he was leading out of a barn at around 2:15 p.m., Wednesday.\n“We were the first ones on the scene,” Deckard said. “He was unconscious, and you could tell he was suffering from a head injury.”\nBut Jeff Holland, the county 4-H director, said Thursday that witnesses had said the teen slipped and fell and that the steer was not involved.\n“To be honest, I was not there; I didn’t witness it,” he said.\nThe man was not participating in a fair event at the time of the accident, officials said.\nFair board officials told fire officials late Wednesday that the man had been placed in a drug-induced comamd, Deckard said.\nThe teen’s family declined to comment on the accident or provide any information regarding his condition.
(07/30/07 12:09am)
Four Indiana coal-burning power plants landed on an environmental group’s latest list of the dirtiest power plants in the nation.\nThe Environmental Integrity Group put Indiana, Texas and Pennsylvania atop a list of the 12 states with the heaviest concentrations of the dirtiest power plants. Texas had five. Indiana and Pennsylvania each had four.\nThe group used data gathered from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy.\n“This report is a vivid reminder that generating electricity through coal is a very dirty business, and power companies have not come forward to clean up voluntarily,” said Jan Jarrett of Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future during a Thursday conference call to discuss the list.\nHowever, power companies say they operate efficiently and have spent billions cleaning up their plants.\nDuke Energy’s Gibson station near Princeton placed fourth on a list of the Top 50 polluting plants ranked by carbon dioxide tons. American Electric Power’s Rockport plant placed seventh.\nPlants operated by Indianapolis Power & Light and Northern Indiana Public Service Co. also made the list.\n“Here in the Midwest, as this report indicates, we have an abundance of filthy outdated coal burning power plants that are contributing to the soot, smog mercury and global-warming pollution challenges we are facing,” Bruce Nilles of the Sierra Club National Coal Campaign said during the conference call.
(07/26/07 12:01am)
INDIANAPOLIS – An Indiana State trooper was injured Wednesday when a box truck slammed into a car as he was speaking to its occupants, knocking the officer into a ditch along Interstate 465, police said.\nThe accident in a construction zone came a day after another trooper was injured when a semitrailer sideswiped the trooper's patrol in southwestern Indiana.\nIn Wednesday's accident, Trooper Henry Kalina, 40, had stopped along I-465 on Indianapolis' northeast side and was standing on the car's passenger side speaking to its driver.\nState police spokesman Sgt. Ray Poole said the box truck's driver was moving from the center lane to the right lane when he may have noticed the trooper's car.\n"He swerved and instead of hitting the police car he hit the car that was stopped by the trooper," Poole said.\nKalina, who is a member of Gov. Mitch Daniels' security detail, was knocked into a ditch by the force of the impact when the truck slammed into the car's driver's side.\nHe suffered leg injuries but was alert and conscious when he was taken by helicopter to an Indianapolis hospital, Poole said. Two women and a child in the car were treated at the scene for minor injuries.\nThe truck driver, who pulled over a short distance from the accident scene, was not injured.
(07/26/07 12:00am)
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. –\nLeaders of a homeless shelter are searching for a way to keep its doors open as they try to find enough cash to pay off a $400,000 tax debt.\nOne of Haven House Services' options would be for the nonprofit group to sell some of its transitional housing units to help pay the tax bill while keeping its emergency shelter open.\nExecutive Director Barbara Anderson said if Haven House sells its transitional housing property, she would like to find a buyer offering similar services so that residents would not be displaced.\nHaven House, the only such homeless shelter in the southeastern Indiana area, owes the Internal Revenue Service $400,000 in payroll taxes that were not paid over the last three years.\nAnderson said the taxes weren't paid because the agency didn't want to cut services to the homeless and because she and Haven House's board members hoped someone would come forward with a \nsubstantial contribution.\n"I let my heart do the thinking instead of my head," Anderson said. "It was a stupid decision. We were just trying our best to get by."\nShe said Haven House will not ask local governments to help pay the debt, but she hopes to develop a plan for long-term public funding to help keep the group afloat.\nHaven House Services runs an emergency shelter for homeless people in Jeffersonville, Ind. and owns transitional housing facilities in Jeffersonville and New Albany, Ind. Its shelter houses about 60 homeless people a day from Clark, Floyd, Harrison and other counties, as well as some from the Louisville, Ky., area.\nHaven House employs 23 people and has served nearly 8,700 people during the past five years, she said. The organization has a $520,000 budget for the year.\nAnderson said it's highly unlikely that the group would sell its emergency homeless shelter, but some residents are worried about what would happen to them if the shelter closed.\nKelli Orman, 33, said she and her son would likely be on the street if the shelter closed.\n"I would probably lose my son to the state, because I would have no way to keep a roof over his head," she said.
(07/23/07 12:26am)
WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue University officials celebrated the end of a major fundraising campaign by spending more than half a million dollars – part of which came from campaign contributions – to throw a party for donors.\nThe bill for the June 30 event totaled $576,778, the Lafayette Journal & Courier reported Friday. About half the bill was paid by the Purdue Research Foundation. The rest was covered by money raised during the school’s Campaign for Purdue, which brought in $1.7 billion in contributions over the past seven years.\nOn the invite list were about 650 donors who give at least $1,000 a year to the university, said Joe Bennett, vice president for university relations.\nSome think the party marking the end of the campaign was too expensive.\n“That seems like a big waste,” said David Hoover, a junior studying actuarial science at Purdue. “Pay for renovations to some of these buildings. A lot of the buildings need it.”\nThe money Purdue spent on the party could have paid for tuition for 81 students for one year, the salaries of six average full-time faculty members for a year, or the average debt of 30 graduating seniors.\nBennett said the event had to be upscale to properly thank contributors, many of whom donated more than $1 million.\n“It’s part of what you do to raise money at that kind of level,” Bennett said. “That’s what the people who made contributions to us deserved.”\nBennett told The Associated Press Friday that the university typically spends between 7 percent and just over 10 percent of money raised on fundraising overhead costs, and that the average cost for the Campaign for Purdue was about 8.5 percent.\n“We spent less than a dime to raise a dollar,” he said, adding that Purdue spends less on fundraising overhead than many other universities.\nErik Hanson, a philosophy graduate student, said Purdue has to treat donors right if it wants to continue fundraising on such a large scale.\n“If throwing a big party for donors will help increase donor support, sometimes that’s what you have to do,” Hanson said.\nThe event was held at the Mollenkopf Athletic Center, so stages, lighting, audio and other equipment had to be brought in and set up there. Student singers and musicians weren’t available during the summer, so professionals were hired. The university hired an event planning company to bring in food, entertainment and decorations.\nTickets to the event brought in $15,826 – money that went toward event expenses.\nFaculty Senate President George Bodner said it’s difficult to determine the appropriate amount to pay for events thanking donors.\n“I hate to say this is the best way of spending it, but sometimes you have to say thank you in an appropriate manner,” Bodner said.
(06/20/07 11:12pm)
Two soldiers with Indiana ties were killed overseas – one in Iraq and one if Afghanistan.\nArmy Spc. David Wilkey Jr., 22, was in a Humvee convoy when he was killed by a roadside bomb Monday in Iraq, his family in Elkhart, Ind., said. Army Staff Sgt. Roy P. Lewsader Jr., 36, died Saturday in Afghanistan when his vehicle was struck by enemy fire, the Department of Defense announced in a Monday news release.\nThe department said in a news release that Lewsader, who died in Tarin Kowt, was from Belleville, Ill. But the soldier’s wife called to say he was from Clinton, Ind., said April Blackmon, a spokeswoman for Fort Riley, where Lewsader was based.\nWilkey, who spent his younger years in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, graduated from Elkhart’s Jimtown High School and worked with his father at Plastic Components in that city for several years before joining the military and being deployed to the Baghdad area, his family said.\nWilkey was married to Melinda Wilkey and had two children, stepson Christian, 4, and son Blayke, 1. A third child was due in October, Margaret Wilkey said. The soldier had been based out of Fort Riley, Kan., and nearby Clay Center was his most recent home.\nA memorial service is planned at Fort Riley, and Wilkey will be buried in the Upper Peninsula, where his mother lives.\nBlackmon said U.S. Army records showed Belleville as Lewsader’s “home of record,” but family said the soldier had no known ties to Illinois, the Belleville News-Democrat reported.\n“This hasn’t ever happened to us before,” Blackmon told the newspaper. “Right now, the Army is looking into it.”\nLewsader was assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division based at Fort Riley.
(03/28/07 4:00am)
PHILADELPHIA – Kumar is going from White Castle to the Ivy League.\nKal Penn, known for his role as Kumar Patel in the 2004 cult classic “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle,” will be a guest instructor at the University of Pennsylvania during the spring 2008 semester, the school announced Monday.\nPenn, 29, will teach two undergraduate courses, tentatively titled, “Images of Asian Americans in the Media” and “Contemporary American Teen Films.”\n“The Asian American Studies Program is delighted that Kalpen Modi, aka Kal Penn, chose our program to host his teaching engagement at Penn,” program director Grace Kao said. “Mr. Modi is one of the leading Asian American actors of his generation and is particularly aware of how his racial and ethnic identification has affected his professional experiences.”\nStudents can enroll in the courses as Asian American studies or cinema studies programs in the university’s School of Arts and Sciences, Kao said.\nPenn co-starred with John Cho, who played Harold Lee, in “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.” His screen credits also include “The Namesake,” “Epic Movie,” “Van Wilder” and “Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj.”\nHe recently finished shooting “Harold & Kumar 2” with Cho.\nThe university said Penn, a native of Montclair, N.J., received a bachelor’s degree in sociology with a specialization in theater, film and television from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is pursuing a graduate certificate in international security at Stanford University.
(12/11/06 4:24am)
Liquor stores will be closed this year on a day that is traditionally one of their busiest -- \nNew Year's Eve -- because the holiday falls on a Sunday.\nIndiana prohibits all take-out liquor sales on Sundays. This year both Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve fall on Sundays, and liquor stores must also be closed for the Monday holidays of Christmas Day and New Year's Day.\nPaul Lukso, of Munster Liquors in Munster, Ind., said Christmas Eve is a big day for sales, but that New Year's Eve is the busiest day of the year.\n"I've got two stores in Illinois, and we never close," he said. "Here, we've got to close Sunday plus Monday. You'd think they'd give you one of the days."\nJohn Livengood, president and chief executive officer of the Indiana Association of Beverage Retailers, said most members of his group generally favor the rule banning Sunday liquor sales.\n"This is just one of the unintended consequences of that decision," he said. "No one thought restricting Sunday sales would include New Year's Eve."\nThe legislature could have granted an exemption to allow sales on Sunday for New Year's Eve had the issue been brought up, said Rep. Robert Kuzman, D-Crown Point.\n"Someone should have considered it and asked us for an exception, and I think something like that would have passed," he said.\nInstead, liquor stores will be closed, and those hosting holiday parties will have to plan ahead. Lukso said he will put up signs and remind customers about the closings but predicted people wouldn't remember.\n"They'll go right across the border to Illinois," Lukso said.
(11/30/06 3:04am)
A fire that forced a man to jump from a second-story window while carrying his 10-month-old daughter was arson, authorities said.\nInvestigators found an irregular burn pattern on the kitchen floor, indicating arson, said Andy Zirkle, spokesman for the Indiana Department of Homeland Security's Division of Fire and Building Safety.\nDennis Sizemore, 47, remained in critical but stable condition in Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis after being severely injured Thursday, when he jumped from the window of his house near Martinsville, about 20 miles southwest of Indianapolis.\nSizemore's daughter, Maryann Sizemore, was not seriously injured.\nHer mother, Doreen Streeval, said she was at a loss to explain the fire.\n"I wonder who or why?" said Streeval, who was at work when the fire occurred. "I'm upset to think that somebody would try to take the life of a baby."\nBecause of his condition, investigators have not been able to interview Dennis Sizemore to get his account.\nNo suspects have been identified, said Morgan County Sheriff's Detective Larry Sanders.
(11/29/06 11:07pm)
Comedian Michael Richards said Sunday he did not consider himself a racist, and that he was "shattered" by the comments he made to two young black men during a tirade at a Los Angeles comedy club.\nRichards appeared on the Rev. Jesse Jackson's nationally syndicated radio program, "Keep Hope Alive," as part of a series of apologies for the incident. He said he knew his comments hurt the black community, and hoped to meet with the two men.\nHe told Jackson that he had not used the language before.\n"That's why I'm shattered by it. The way this came through me was like a freight train. After it was over, when I went to look for them, they had gone. And I've tried to meet them, to talk to them, to get some healing," he said.\nRichards, who played Jerry Seinfeld's wacky neighbor Kramer on the TV sitcom "Seinfeld," was performing at West Hollywood's Laugh Factory last week when he lashed out at hecklers with a string of racial obscenities and profane language. A cell phone video camera captured the outburst, and the incident later appeared on TMZ.com.\nRichards told Jackson the tirade was fueled by anger, not bigotry. He said he wanted to hurt those who had hurt him.\n"I was in a place of humiliation," he said.\nRichards' publicist, Howard Rubenstein, said Saturday that Richards has begun psychiatric counseling in Los Angeles to learn how to manage his anger.\n"He acknowledged that his statements were harmful and opened a terrible racial wound in our nation," Rubenstein said. "He pledges never ever to say anything like that again. He's quite remorseful."\nJackson, who has called Richards' words "hateful," "sick," and "deep-seated," said the comedian's inclusion on the show was a chance for a broader discussion about "cultural isolation" in the entertainment industry.\nRichards noted that the racial epithet he used is frequent in the entertainment industry--- and acknowledged that it could have consequences.\n"I fear that young whites will think it's cool to go around and use that word because they see very cool people in the show business using that word so freely," he said. "Perhaps that's what came through in that ... the vernacular is so accessible."
(11/29/06 5:00am)
Comedian Michael Richards said Sunday he did not consider himself a racist, and that he was "shattered" by the comments he made to two young black men during a tirade at a Los Angeles comedy club.\nRichards appeared on the Rev. Jesse Jackson's nationally syndicated radio program, "Keep Hope Alive," as part of a series of apologies for the incident. He said he knew his comments hurt the black community, and hoped to meet with the two men.\nHe told Jackson that he had not used the language before.\n"That's why I'm shattered by it. The way this came through me was like a freight train. After it was over, when I went to look for them, they had gone. And I've tried to meet them, to talk to them, to get some healing," he said.\nRichards, who played Jerry Seinfeld's wacky neighbor Kramer on the TV sitcom "Seinfeld," was performing at West Hollywood's Laugh Factory last week when he lashed out at hecklers with a string of racial obscenities and profane language. A cell phone video camera captured the outburst, and the incident later appeared on TMZ.com.\nRichards told Jackson the tirade was fueled by anger, not bigotry. He said he wanted to hurt those who had hurt him.\n"I was in a place of humiliation," he said.\nRichards' publicist, Howard Rubenstein, said Saturday that Richards has begun psychiatric counseling in Los Angeles to learn how to manage his anger.\n"He acknowledged that his statements were harmful and opened a terrible racial wound in our nation," Rubenstein said. "He pledges never ever to say anything like that again. He's quite remorseful."\nJackson, who has called Richards' words "hateful," "sick," and "deep-seated," said the comedian's inclusion on the show was a chance for a broader discussion about "cultural isolation" in the entertainment industry.\nRichards noted that the racial epithet he used is frequent in the entertainment industry--- and acknowledged that it could have consequences.\n"I fear that young whites will think it's cool to go around and use that word because they see very cool people in the show business using that word so freely," he said. "Perhaps that's what came through in that ... the vernacular is so accessible."
(11/16/06 5:06am)
INDIANAPOLIS -- NCAA President Myles Brand aggressively defended the organization's tax-exempt status in a 25-page letter to Congress, arguing the primary goal of the NCAA is education.\nBrand pointed to recent academic reforms that increased eligibility standards and studies showing the average SAT scores of athletes are higher than those of the general student body as examples that the NCAA is committed first to educating athletes.\nThe response was sent Monday to Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., the outgoing chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. It was released publicly Wednesday on the NCAA's Web site.\n"The lessons learned on the football field or men's basketball court are no less in value or importance to those student-athletes than the ones learned on the hockey rink or softball diamond -- nor, for that matter, than those learned in theater, dance, music, journalism or other non-classroom environments," Brand wrote.\nA spokesman for the committee said lawmakers did not plan to comment Wednesday on the NCAA's response.\nLast month, Thomas questioned whether the NCAA should retain its tax-exempt status given the amount of money it receives from TV contracts and championship events. He also questioned whether the federal government should subsidize college athletics when money helps pay for escalating coaching salaries, some of which reach seven figures.\nThomas told the NCAA to respond by late October, then extended the deadline to Monday.\nBrand argued that coaches' pay is commensurate with other highly recruited faculty members and said the NCAA should not be penalized because television networks are willing to pay millions or billions of dollars to air games since it does not change the NCAA's \nprimary purpose.\n"If the educational purpose of college basketball could be preserved only by denying the right to telecast the events, students, university faculty and staff, alumni, the institutions of higher education themselves and even the American taxpayer would ultimately lose," Brand wrote. "The scale of popularity and the media attention given to football and men's basketball do not forfeit for those two sports the educational purpose for which \nthey exist."\nBrand, the first ex-president of a university to lead the NCAA, has made academic reform his top priority since taking over in 2003.\nUnder his leadership, the NCAA has increased freshman eligibility standards, created stronger requirements to retain eligibility and enacted its own formula for determining graduation rates.\nMore recently, Brand has attempted to take on the growing expenses in college sports.\nHe has criticized high-priced coaches' salaries, and he has expressed growing concern over what he describes as the college "arms race" -- money being spent to upgrade or build new facilities so a school can remain \ncompetitive.\nIn the letter, Brand cited building expenses as an imperative reason for the NCAA to retain its tax exemption even as he said the organization is limited in how it can limit the costs.\n"Athletics facilities, state-of-the-art or otherwise, are necessary for the support of the activity for which there is a tax exemption," Brand wrote. "These facilities, often paid for through bonds or charitable contributions, also generate revenue that offsets the operational cost of athletics that might not otherwise be provided through institutional funds."\nIt's unclear how the committee's investigation might proceed since last week's midterm elections means committee chairmanships will change hands, with Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., in line to run Ways and Means.
(11/16/06 3:42am)
A high school basketball coach was charged with stealing nearly $3,000 from the proceeds of a football game, authorities said.\nColumbus North basketball coach Barry Huckeby, who had been suspended with pay from the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp., told police he took some money but did not confess to stealing the whole amount, according to a probable cause affidavit filed this week.\nColumbus police officer Jay Frederick said Huckeby told him that he took two bills from the proceeds of the Oct. 20 game, and that the coach thought they were $50 bills.\nHuckeby, 33, a math teacher, told police that in his duties as assistant athletic director, he counted that night's ticket sales totaling more than $5,000, which he prepared for a bank deposit, the affidavit said.\nHuckeby's attorney, Richard Eynon, said he was disappointed the felony theft charge was filed and that his client maintains his innocence.\n"There's an explanation for everything that happened through the whole process," Eynon said.\nHuckeby was arrested Tuesday and released from the Bartholomew County Jail after posting $15,000 bond. If convicted, he could face a prison sentence of six months to three years.\nHuckeby was hired in May to coach the boys' basketball team, and school officials said they have begun the process of firing him.\nSuperintendent John Quick declined to comment on Huckeby's arrest.
(11/14/06 4:13pm)
LUBBOCK, Texas -- As Bob Knight moved one win closer to catching Dean Smith, his temper flared once again, when he used his hand to push a player's chin during a timeout, as if to make him look the coach in the eye.\nWith more than 4 minutes to go in Texas Tech's 86-74 victory over Gardner-Webb on Monday night, Red Raiders forward Michael Prince was called for a foul. During the ensuing timeout, Knight approached Prince, and as the player lowered his head, the coach made contact with his chin.\nKnight gave a brief statement at the postgame news conference then answered one question before exiting the room. The incident with Prince was never addressed.\nIt was win No. 871 for Knight, who is five away from passing Adolph Rupp for second place on the all-time list. He needs nine more victories to surpass Smith for the most wins in Division I history.\nKnight's career has featured three national championships, all at Indiana, and plenty of temper outbursts, including run-ins with players.\nIn 1992, Knight kicked a chair on the bench while son Pat, then a player for him at Indiana and now his assistant and successor-to-be at Texas Tech, was sitting in it. When fans behind the team bench booed, Knight turned and responded with an obscenity.\nHe was accused of grabbing a player by the throat during a practice in 1997, an episode that was caught on videotape and created the whirlwind that eventually led to his firing from Indiana in September 2000.\nKnight was fired for what Indiana officials called a violation of a zero-tolerance behavior policy shortly after he grabbed the arm of a student who greeted him on campus by saying "Hey, what's up, Knight?"\nHis most infamous moment came in a game against Purdue in 1985, when he threw a chair across the court after being assessed a technical foul.
(11/08/06 6:34am)
Democrats ousted Republican incumbents Tuesday in Indiana's 2nd, 7th and 8th Congressional Districts, giving the party three of the 15 seats it needed to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives.\nThe races for the 2nd and the 8th Districts were two of three congressional races in Indiana that were closely watched nationwide. The third race -- that for the 9th District -- ended in victory for Democrat Baron Hill over Republican Rep. Mike Sodrel.
(11/07/06 4:32am)
EVANSVILLE -- A hole collapsed around a man and killed him while he was trying to help his brother fix a broken sewer line in his backyard.\nJerrod Elmendorf, 29, of Mount Vernon was buried standing up in the dirt at his brother's home in Evansville on Saturday and apparently died of asphyxiation or suffocation, authorities said.\nElmendorf had been helping his brother dig the hole with a backhoe Saturday morning, and family members noticed he was missing after noon, said Evansville police spokesman Brian Talsma. When they couldn't find him, they called 911, and fire department rescuers found him in the hole at about 3 p.m.\nTalsma said the hole was about 20 feet by 8 feet and up to 14 feet deep. Police were not sure why the hole collapsed but said recent rain and the large pile of dirt beside the hole may have contributed to the accident.\n"Something caused it to collapse fairly substantially, and he didn't have a chance to even get out or get around the amount of dirt that fell in," Talsma said.\nRescuers had to widen and terrace the hole before they could remove the man's body, which took about five hours.