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(10/17/07 2:29am)
NEW YORK – Meryl Streep is about to collect yet another honor, this one from the Film Society of Lincoln Center.\nThe Film Society announced its gala retrospective Sunday evening at the closing night festivities of the 45th annual New York Film Festival. The 58-year-old actress will be honored April 14 at Lincoln Center for the Film Society’s 35th annual Gala Tribute.\n“While her luminous on-screen presence is never less than dazzling, you always feel her keen intelligence and wit, her extraordinary level of insight,” Gala Tribute Director Wendy Keys said in a statement Monday. “She truly embodies every character she plays.”\nThe Film Society of Lincoln Center has annually paid tribute to major film figures since 1972, when it honored Charlie Chaplin. Other honorees have included Fred Astaire, Alfred Hitchcock, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Jane Fonda and, most recently, Diane Keaton.\nStreep has won two Oscars (in 1980 for “Kramer vs. Kramer” and 1983 for “Sophie’s Choice”) and has been nominated 12 other times, including earlier this year for her performance in “The Devil Wears Prada.”
(10/16/07 3:57am)
INDIANAPOLIS – A 16-year-old student was arrested after authorities say he fired a gunshot into the air during a fight at a high school Monday. No injuries were reported.\nTwo groups of teens were involved in the fight about 7 a.m. at Manual High School on the city’s south side. The fight stemmed from an incident over the weekend, school officials said.\nThe student pulled a revolver from his backpack, fired into the air and ran.\n“He said that he didn’t have a gun,” said school police Lt. John Stiegelmeyer, who caught the teen after a short foot chase. “He denied all knowledge, but we have enough witnesses that he was charged with criminal recklessness.”\nPolice were still looking for the gun.\nThe school day had not begun at the time of the incident. Students who were on campus were ushered into the building, which was then locked down.\nClasses were held as usual.
(10/15/07 9:07pm)
INDIANAPOLIS – A 16-year-old student was arrested after authorities say he fired a gunshot into the air during a fight at a high school Monday. No injuries were reported.\nTwo groups of teens were involved in the fight about 7 a.m. at Manual High School on the city’s south side. The fight stemmed from an incident over the weekend, school officials said.\nThe student pulled a revolver from his backpack, fired into the air and ran.\n“He said that he didn’t have a gun,” said school police Lt. John Stiegelmeyer, who caught the teen after a short foot chase. “He denied all knowledge, but we have enough witnesses that he was charged with criminal recklessness.”\nPolice were still looking for the gun.\nThe school day had not begun at the time of the incident. Students who were on campus were ushered into the building, which was then locked down.\nClasses were held as usual.
(10/15/07 1:46am)
INDIANAPOLIS – The state’s public access counselor has found no violation by Wayne County officials in refusing to release a 911 tape in their investigation of the deaths of two Centerville sisters last month.\nThe bodies of Erin Stanley, 19, and Kelly Stanley, 18, were found six days apart in the home they shared with their parents just west of Richmond, Ind.\nErin Stanley’s boyfriend, James McFarland Jr., 23, was charged Wednesday with murder in her death, but authorities would not say whether he might also be linked to the death of her younger sister.\nThe Palladium-Item of Richmond sought the release of a 911 tape recorded on Sept. 1, the day Erin Stanley’s body was found, but Public Access Counselor Heather Neal said Friday that Prosecutor Mike Shipman was justified in refusing the newspaper’s request.\nThe prosecutor’s office “is a law enforcement agency under the APRA (Access to Public Records Act) and as such has the discretion to withhold from disclosure investigatory records compiled in the course of the investigation of a crime,” Neal said in a letter to Palladium-Item reporter Bill Engle, who has written stories on the case and made the request for disclosure of the tape.\nEngle said he was “puzzled” by the access counselor’s finding.\n“I’m puzzled by the power that it gives the prosecutor or another official from a police agency to ... pretty randomly decide what is part of an investigation and what is not,” he said.\nThe Palladium-Item argued that the 911 tape was not created as part of the investigation.\n“We’re saying it is part of the daily activity of the 911 center, the dispatch center, therefore it’s just a public document,” Engle said.\nHowever, Neal said records gathered in the course of a criminal investigation may be withheld from disclosure under an exception to the federal Freedom of Information Act.\n“The legislature has put in place this exception to allow law enforcement agencies to conduct their investigations without disclosing all of their investigatory tools,” she wrote.\nThe prosecutor’s assertion that the 911 tape was part of the materials compiled in the investigation sustains the burden of proof required under Indiana law, Neal said.
(10/15/07 1:45am)
MADISON, Ind. – The woman who confessed more than a decade ago of being the teenage ringleader in the torture killing of a 12-year-old girl is claiming her lawyers did a poor job and wants her guilty plea thrown out.\nMelinda Loveless was 16 when authorities say she and three other girls abducted Shanda Renee Sharer of New Albany, Ind., then tortured her and set her on fire.\nLoveless is scheduled on Monday to ask Jefferson Circuit Judge Ted Todd to overturn her guilty plea and 60-year prison sentence for the 1992 murder.\nLoveless’ lawyer, Mark Small, claims her original defense attorneys were ineffective and that she was treated more harshly than her co-defendants, two of whom have already been released from prison.\nSmall said he believed that then-prosecutor Guy Townsend’s threat to seek the death penalty caused Loveless to plead guilty “under duress.” He contends Townsend and Loveless’ attorneys should have known that the U.S. Supreme Court would ultimately ban the death penalty for minors since it had ruled in 1988 that no one younger than 16 could be executed.\n“He told my client’s mother and sisters that she’d better take the plea or she would be executed,” Small said. “He used a full-court press ... to get her to accept the plea offer that was put on the table.”\nCurrent Jefferson County Prosecutor Chad Lewis, however, said that an overall ban on juvenile executions didn’t happen until 2005.\n“She was death penalty-eligible” when she pleaded guilty, Lewis said. “There’s nothing wrong with the prosecutor using that as leverage” in negotiating a plea agreement.\nLoveless and three other teenagers abducted Sharer after luring her from her home following a punk rock concert in Louisville, Ky. According to court testimony, Loveless was jealous of Sharer and wanted her killed because she was involved in a lesbian love triangle with Loveless and another girl.\nBefore dawn on Jan. 11, 1992, they bludgeoned and sodomized the girl with a tire iron and sliced her legs with a knife, then drove around with the girl locked in the car’s trunk.\nHours later, they doused the girl with gasoline and burned her alive along a Jefferson County road, about 40 miles northeast of Louisville.\nOf the three others convicted in Sharer’s death – Hope Rippey, Laurie Tackett and Toni Lawrence – only Tackett remains in prison. Rippey was released last year, while Lawrence was released in 2000.\nSharer’s mother, Jacqueline Vaught, said Loveless should not be released from the Indiana Women’s Prison in Indianapolis before serving at least 30 years – that is half of her sentence, and what is required under state’s system of trimming one day for every day of good behavior in prison.\n“My child died from breathing the fumes of her own body burning,” said Vaught, who planned to attend Monday’s hearing. “If justice was served she’d serve the entire 60 years.”
(10/15/07 1:44am)
TERRE HAUTE – Human remains found in a car pulled from the Wabash River are those of Scott Javins, an Indiana State University student who’s been missing for more than five years, authorities said.\nOfficials going through silt and mud in the car found a human skull and other remains. The remains are those of Javins, said Vigo County Prosecutor Terry Modesitt.\nAuthorities are continuing the forensic analysis to look for more remains or potential evidence.\nJavins, who was 20 when he disappeared, was last seen about 2:30 a.m. May 24, 2002, in Terre Haute leaving a friend’s home in a silver Honda Civic. Police pulled Javins’ car from the Wabash River on Friday.\nPolice had checked other sections of the river in the past, but not the area where Javins’ car was found, Chief of Police George Ralston said Friday.\nModesitt said as the investigation continues, any evidence will be protected in case it is needed for a trial in the future.\n“We feel good,” Modesitt said. “We want to bring closure for the family, and this is a start.”
(10/12/07 4:51am)
INDIANAPOLIS – Cursing or venturing onto the court could draw college basketball coaches a quick technical foul this season.\nThe NCAA is making bench decorum a point of emphasis for 2007-08 and warns coaches to expect a whistle without warning for a variety of unsportsmanlike actions.\nReferees who are consistent in enforcing the rules will be rewarded.\n“The bench decorum rules, which include staying in the prescribed coaching box, have been interpreted in various ways for some time,” Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, the president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, said Thursday. “This initiative for strengthened, consistent enforcement has significant ramifications. Coaches and game officials who do not strictly adhere to the rules will be penalized.”\nThe actions that can draw a technical include disrespectfully addressing an official or attempting to influence an official’s decision, using abusive or profane language, taunting an opponent, inciting undesirable crowd reactions and coming onto the court without permission of an official to attend to an injured player.\nThe rules will also apply to assistant coaches, other team personnel and players on the bench.\nOfficials who consistently enforce the rules will be given preferential consideration for conference and NCAA tournament assignments.\n“This is something that coaches always ask for, and that’s to have game officials enforce the rules that are already in place,” Boeheim said.\nThe policy has been endorsed by the Collegiate Commissioners Association and the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association.\n“As coaches, we are fully accountable for our actions,” said Oklahoma women’s coach Sherri Coale, the president of the WBCA. “With strengthened enforcement, coaches will be more conscious of their demeanor knowing that a penalty will result from inappropriate behavior.”
(10/12/07 4:50am)
LINCOLNTON, N.C. – A 13-year-old boy who was injured in a football game died later at a hospital, officials said Thursday.\nWill McLeod, 13, was an eighth-grader at North Lincoln Middle School. He was hurt Wednesday night during a game against West Lincoln Middle School, said district spokeswoman Belinda Branson.\nBranson said the injury occurred on a “typical football play,” but she did not have any other details. The boy was rushed to Carolinas Medical Center in Lincoln, then transferred to the medical center’s branch in Charlotte.\nThe district has counselors and ministers on hand to help students, Branson said. Rhonda Hager, principal at the North Lincoln school, described Will as “an excellent student and a joy to be around.”
(10/12/07 3:14am)
GARY – A group of real estate agents is taking a stand against racism in housing in northwestern Indiana at a time when discrimination complaints nationally are rising.\nThe action by the Greater Northwest Indiana Association of Realtors comes a year after complaints that one real estate agent had played on prejudices when she suggested to some Merrillville homeowners that they consider selling their homes by incorrectly saying the area might become part of Gary.\nThe group pledged Wednesday that its 2,800 members will provide equal opportunity to all persons in the sale or purchase of a home.\n“We believe that diversity is a wellspring of strength, which is important to the future of northwest Indiana,” said Thelma Nolan, the association’s president.\nThe number of housing discrimination complaints nationwide logged by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development rose 12 percent last year to 10,328, their highest level since the agency began tracking them in 1990.\nThe Realtors adopted a code on inclusiveness developed by the Race Relations Council of Northwest Indiana, which works to fight racism in the region.\nDarren Washington, co-chairman of the council, said the two groups came together after a Lake County real estate agent last year distributed letters to homeowners in northern Merrillville suggesting they sell their properties because the city of Gary planned to annex their neighborhoods. Gary and Merrillville officials complained, the agent was fired and the state attorney general’s office suspended her license.\nThe letter reminded some of a racially divisive period in the late 1960s and early 1970s that spurred the flight of white residents from Gary to Merrillville and other suburban communities.\nWashington said real estate agents should treat every neighborhood in the region equally and not suggest some are safer or better than others. Some agents urge their clients to buy homes in suburban areas because they earn higher commissions, despite Gary having some high-end houses, he said.\n“At a time when property taxes are a burden for businesses and homeowners in the cities of Gary, Hammond and East Chicago, the commitment to inclusiveness by the Greater Northwest Indiana Association of Realtors will be an asset to the development of all of our communities,” Washington said.
(10/12/07 3:13am)
INDIANAPOLIS – A convicted burglar has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for multiple crimes, including the fatal shooting of a police dog.\nClinton Hernandez, 21, of Indianapolis, pleaded guilty to seven of 10 charges against him, including burglary and interfering with a law-enforcement animal.\nAuthorities said Hernandez used a 9-millimeter handgun to shoot and kill Bo, an 8-year-old Belgian Malinois, following a burglary and chase.\nPolice officers were responding to a possible burglary at a home on the south side of Indianapolis on May 10 when they spotted a suspicious vehicle and began a pursuit. The driver fled on Interstate 65 and Interstate 465 to the southeast side, where he ditched the vehicle and fled on foot, police said.\nOfficer Scott Johnson of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department released the dog, which went after Hernandez. Hernandez shot the dog when it bit him on the leg. Johnson also fired his weapon, striking Hernandez in the leg and hip.\nJohnson said he still misses his canine partner.\n“It’s just like it happened yesterday,” he said after the hearing Wednesday.
(10/11/07 1:33am)
GARY– About 20 protesters rallied outside City Hall, calling for police officers to be fired for leaving two teenagers who died in a car crash behind for several hours until a family member found them.\nNeither the mayor nor the police chief met Tuesday with the picketers, who held signs and delivered letters asking that the responding officers be fired and for the chief to resign.\nFamily members of Brandon Smith and Dominique Green, both 18, have been searching for answers about the deaths of the high school seniors since the Sept. 15 crash.\nGary police Cmdr. Sam Roberts, a department spokesman, gave protesters a letter written by Chief Thomas Houston. The letter, dated Sept. 21, offered condolences and denied claims of insensitivity.\n“My hope, also, is that this letter will clarify any concerns you may have in regards to our compassion and concern for any life of any citizen in this city or in any city in the world,” the letter stated.\nMayor Rudy Clay was in a meeting and would not meet with the protesters, city spokeswoman LaLosa Burns said. Burns told protesters that Clay would respond to their letter in writing.\nThe bodies of Smith and Green were found by Smith’s father, Arthur Smith, about six hours after the crash and hours after police officers left the scene. The car was gone by the time Arthur Smith arrived, but he estimates the bodies were about 15 to 20 feet from the wreck.\nDispatch recordings show that officers were told that Smith and Green were in the car when it crashed. Police have said that the tapes may not tell the whole story, and the internal affairs department is looking into the officers’ conduct.\nThe Lake County coroner’s office has said Smith and Green both died instantly, but the families have sought independent autopsies.
(10/11/07 1:33am)
INDIANAPOLIS – State officials say they’ll appeal a decision by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to deny federal aid for northwest Indiana residents whose homes were damaged by flooding in August.\nFEMA sent a letter to Gov. Mitch Daniels saying that the damage is within the ability of local and state officials to address. The state has 30 days to appeal the decision.\nDaniels declared a disaster emergency for the area, which includes Dyer, Gary, Hobart, Lake Station, East Chicago and Merrillville.\nSeveral storms moved through the region from July 26 through Aug 27.\nAccording to preliminary estimates by the state, three homes were destroyed and 128 had major damage.
(10/11/07 1:30am)
INDIANAPOLIS – A DNA test may determine if a missing Indianapolis woman was the victim of a man who has confessed to killing six women in four states.\nCarma Purpura, 31, was last seen July 11 at a south-side truck stop.\nBruce Mendenhall, 56, of Albion, Ill., was arrested the next day at a truck stop in Nashville, Tenn., and confessed to killing six women in Indiana, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, authorities said.\nDet. Tom Tudor of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said police found Purpura’s identification card in Mendenhall’s truck. Police hope a DNA test on blood on clothing found in his truck will determine if the blood is Purpura’s.\nMendenhall, who has been charged with killings in Nashville and Birmingham, Ala., reportedly told police he killed a woman he picked up at the Indianapolis truck stop and dumped her body in a trash bin near a fast food restaurant off Indiana State Road 37 just south of Interstate 465. Police searched that bin and others at nearby truck stops but found nothing.\n“At this point, we’re proceeding as if the body will not be recovered,” Marion County Deputy Prosecutor Denise Robinson said.
(10/09/07 4:01am)
FRANKLIN, Ind. – Jurors found a central Indiana school district was not responsible for the emotional distress a student newspaper article caused a student who recently had reported she was raped.\nHeide Inman, formerly Heide Peek, sought $800,000 in damages as a result of the 2002 article, which described her as having the worst reputation among Whiteland Community High School’s senior class and made a joking reference to rape and bestiality.\nA six-person Johnson Superior Court jury deliberated for about seven hours Friday before finding Clark-Pleasant Community School district officials were not responsible for the statements and awarding no money to Inman.\nInman’s attorney, Kevin Betz, said she was considering an appeal.\nThe lawsuit stemmed from statements in the 2002 senior edition of Smoke Signals, a student publication. Attorney James Stephenson, representing the district, said the faculty adviser removed the offensive remarks during editing, but the changes were not saved.\nBetz said the family had asked the principal and school officials to help shield the girl after the reported rape, and that the statements in print made it appear as if she had lied about the rape.\n“That’s what she gets from her school,” Betz said. “We know what those words meant to everyone in that high school setting and what it did to her emotional state.”\nThe publication was subject to review and oversight by school officials, the lawsuit alleged. Betz said officials were reckless for allowing the statements to be published.\nStephenson, however, argued that the adviser at the south suburban Indianapolis school made a mistake when she didn’t find the statements in a final edit, but that was not enough to prove recklessness.\n“Even though Heide Peek was wronged, we’re not here to award damages to wronged plaintiffs unless they prove their claims,” he said.\nStephenson also questioned whether the publication really added to the distress already caused by the rape, and whether it had done lasting damage to her reputation.\n“She could move into Whiteland now, and I doubt anyone would have a recall of this publication or know who she is,” he said.\nBetz said Inman has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder since the rape, but Stephenson said she had not sought counseling. Stephenson said if jurors held the school responsible they should award up to $50,000 to be used for five years of counseling
(10/09/07 4:00am)
INDIANAPOLIS – The family of a soldier who died in a medical transition program is raising questions about the care he received after he was wounded in Iraq.\n“I think the Army’s lack of care and lack of medical treatment killed my son,” Kay McMullen of Carmel, mother of 32-year-old Sgt. Gerald J. Cassidy, said Friday.\nCassidy was found in his room at Fort Knox in Kentucky and pronounced dead at about 6:50 p.m. Sept. 21., the military said. At the time of his death, Cassidy was in the Warrior Transition Program, an outpatient program that helps injured soldiers prepare to return to duty or be evaluated for disability. He was buried this week.\nFort Knox spokeswoman Connie Shaffery said Friday that Cassidy’s death is being investigated by the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, which investigates all unattended deaths. Officials are awaiting lab results from a military autopsy, which could take several weeks, she said.\n“This is something that is serious to Fort Knox and to the Army,” Shaffery said. She said the well-being of soldiers in the Warrior Transition Unit was a particular concern.\n“Every aspect of his death is being investigated,” she added.\nMcMullen said the transition unit is not equipped to handle all the wounded soldiers it receives.\n“They have more patients and more wounded soldiers than they have the facilities and the doctors to take care of them,” she said.\nMcMullen said she had been trying to get her son transferred to an Indianapolis hospital where he could receive care she believed would be more adequate. Cassidy’s family said he had suffered migraine headaches and other symptoms after suffering a severe head injury from a roadside bomb in June 2006.\nAn independent autopsy found Cassidy could have been dead 15 hours before he was discovered, the family said, and they believe he may have been unconscious as long as two days. His wife had not had a phone call from him for three days when she called Fort Knox on Sept. 21 and pleaded with the Army to check on his condition, McMullen said.\n“She started calling the Fort early Friday morning begging for help. She said please, please find my husband,” McMullen said.\nShaffery said the days before Cassidy’s death also were being investigated.\nCassidy, of Westfield, was a member of the Lebanon-based Battery C of the 2-150th Field Artillery Battalion. He was deployed to Iraq with a brigade combat team from the Minnesota National Guard.
(10/09/07 3:32am)
Marion Jones has given up the five medals she won at the Sydney Olympics, days after admitting she used performance-enhancing drugs.\nIt wasn’t immediately clear where the medals are now. Jones’ lawyer, Henry DePippo, said Monday that she had relinquished them, but declined to say who had possession of them. The normal protocol would be for Jones to give them to the U.S. Olympic Committee, which then would return them to the International Olympic Committee, said International Olympic Committee spokeswoman Giselle Davies.\n“The IOC wants to move forward as quickly as possible in getting the facts and sorting out all the issues from the BALCO case,” Davies said.\nA call to the U.S. Olympic Committee was not immediately returned, but the group has scheduled a 7 p.m. EDT news conference. No one answered the door at Jones’ house in Austin, Texas.\nShe pleaded guilty Friday to lying to federal investigators about using steroids, saying she’d taken “the clear” from September 2000 to July 2001. “The clear” is the designer steroid that’s been linked to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, the lab at the center of the steroids scandal in professional sports.\nIt wasn’t immediately clear what will happen next. The international committee and other sports bodies can go back eight years to strip medals and nullify results. In Jones’ case, that would include the 2000 Olympics, where she won gold in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 1,600 relay and bronze in the long jump and 400 relay.\nThe standings normally would be readjusted, with the second-place finisher moving up to gold, third to silver and fourth to bronze.\nPauline Davis-Thompson of the Bahamas was the silver medalist in the 200 meters and Tatiana Kotova of Russia was fourth in the long jump. The silver medalist in the 100 meters in Sydney was Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou – at the center of a major doping scandal at the Athens Olympics.\nShe and fellow Greek runner Kostas Kenteris failed to show up for drug tests on the eve of the games, claimed they were injured in a motorcycle accident and eventually pulled out. Both later were suspended for two years.\nThe relays could be a trickier issue, because there are more people involved. Jearl Miles-Clark, Monique Hennagan, Tasha Colander-Richardson and Andrea Anderson all won golds as part of the 1,600-meter relay. Jamaica finished second.\nChryste Gaines, Torri Edwards, Nanceen Perry and Passion Richardson were on the 400-meter relay, which finished third ahead of France.\nJones stands to lose more than her Olympic medals, too. The International Association of Athletics Federations can strip athletes of results and medals after notification of a doping violation, and it said last week it was waiting to hear from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Jones won a gold (100 meters) and bronze (long jump) at the 1999 worlds in Seville, Spain, and two gold (200 and 400 relay) and a silver (100) at the 2001 championships in Edmonton.\nThe federation’s rules also allow for athletes busted for doping to be asked to pay back prize money and appearance fees. British sprinter Dwain Chambers, who admitted to using the clear, had to pay back a reported $230,615 before he was allowed to return to competition after a two-year ban.\nIt’s unclear whether this would be applied to Jones, who would have earned millions in prizes, bonuses and fees from meets all over the world, including a share of the $1 million Golden League jackpot in 2001 and 2002.
(10/09/07 3:31am)
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Mark Dantonio expected growing pains in his first year as Michigan State’s head football coach. After back-to-back losses to Wisconsin and Northwestern, there’s little doubt that he’s smarting.\nThe Spartans (4-2, 0-2 Big Ten) know how close they came to an upset on Sept. 29, when they fell 37-34 at then No. 9 Wisconsin. And they have a right to feel upset with themselves after last weekend’s 48-41 overtime loss to visiting Northwestern.\nIt will take much better defense than that to stop the bleeding against explosive IU (5-1, 2-1) on Saturday. The Hoosiers’ record might be a surprise to some, but not to the MSU veterans who lost 46-21 last fall in Bloomington.\nDantonio insists his team won’t fold the way several recent squads did after an initial disappointment. And he should know the difference.\nDantonio was an assistant when Nick Saban’s 1999 Spartans started 6-0, were blown away by 54 points in consecutive thrashings at Purdue and Wisconsin, then finished 10-2 with four more victories, including a win over Florida in the Citrus Bowl.\n“If you’d said to me last spring, ‘You’re 4-2 after six games,’ you’d assume we weren’t playing that awful,” Dantonio said Monday. “The trouble is, the last two weeks were Big Ten games, and we had opportunities to win. But we don’t make the plays to get over the hump. We don’t make the calls to get over the hump. And we don’t coach to get over the hump.”\nThe Spartans’ challenge is to learn from a string of costly mistakes. For quarterback Brian Hoyer, that means a focus on the immediate future and forgetting about the past 10 days.\n“Watching that film yesterday made me sick,” Hoyer said. “And it was hard to sleep on Saturday night. I kept thinking about a couple of plays where I should’ve done something different.\n“But that’s something you can learn from and make the right play the next time.”\nThe play that kept Hoyer up was a rushed throw in overtime that barely missed wide-open tight end Kellen Davis for a tying touchdown. But Dantonio second-guessed himself, too, admitting that it wouldn’t have been a bad idea to give the ball to tailback Javon Ringer, who was averaging 15.4 yards per rush. Instead, Hoyer launched four incompletions toward the end zone.\n“We’re all growing, including myself,” Dantonio said. “We’re all trying to get to the point where we’re going to be successful. But this is a long-term project. As I said when I took the job, there are going to be times when we say to each other, ‘What happened? I wish this. I wish that.’ And there are going to be times when you don’t want to get out of bed on Sunday morning. This weekend was one of those days. But we can’t change what just happened.”
(10/03/07 4:06am)
FLOYDS KNOBS, Ind. – The number of people infected with E. coli in Floyd County, Ind., has jumped to 10, including seven schoolchildren who suffered kidney failure and required dialysis machines, health officials said Tuesday.\nAll of the people infected are linked to Gelena Elementary School, about 15 miles northwest of Louisville, Ky. Three of the cases are not students.\nBrian Rublein, spokesman for Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville, said seven children were hospitalized for E. coli infections, but he said federal privacy laws prohibited him from identifying them or describing their conditions.\nA release Tuesday from county health officials also did not indicate progress toward identifying the source of the infection, but said officials were waiting on lab results for other suspected infections.\nEpidemiologists with the Indiana State Department of Health identified the strain responsible for infections in southeastern Indiana as 0157:H7, which produces a \npowerful toxin.\nAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States has about 73,000 cases of E. coli infection and 61 deaths each year. Most cases are caused by eating \ncontaminated hamburger.\nGalena Elementary has remained open since the first infection Sept. 21, though officials say it has been cleaned regularly.\nDr. James Howell, an epidemiologist for the state, said Monday the Indiana State Department of Health saw no reason to close the school or quarantine the area.\n“It appears there is no ongoing transmission within the school,” he said.\nTom Harris, the county’s top medical officer, has defended the decision to keep Galena open and said there was no indication that E. coli was being transmitted at the school. Closing it “would not have been appropriate,” he said.\nTelephone messages were left Tuesday with Dave Rarick, spokesman for New Albany-Floyd County Schools.
(10/03/07 4:05am)
INDIANAPOLIS – A former lab technician faces a battery charge after she was accused of biting a 3-year-old boy’s shoulder during a blood test.\nAnne McGlorthon, 53, of Indianapolis, could face six months to three years in prison if she’s convicted. The charge was filed Tuesday, the Marion County prosecutor’s \noffice said.\nThe Associated Press left a phone message seeking comment Tuesday night at an Indianapolis number listed under McGlorthon’s name.\nThe boy’s mother, Faith Buntin, said she took her son Victor to St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis on Sept. 21 because of recent recalls of toys involving lead. She said the worker later identified as McGlorthon put her mouth on Victor’s shoulder while restraining him so another lab worker could draw the blood. McGlorthon allegedly called it “just a play bite.”\nAfter they returned home, Buntin said she saw teeth marks on his left shoulder. Her husband then drove the child back to the hospital, where he was prescribed antibiotics.\nPolice said McGlorthon told them she bit the boy because he bit her as she restrained him.\nMarion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi said self-defense was not a defense in this type of case.\n“A 3-year-old can’t have the requisite intent to harm you,” he told Indianapolis television station WRTV. “Therefore, you can’t defend yourself in that way.”\nBrizzi said he would ask the court to require McGlorthon to provide a blood sample so tests can be done to determine if she might have transmitted any disease to the child.\n“For someone to do something as nasty as put their mouth on a baby, bite a baby and break the skin and transfer bodily fluid into this child ... that’s a big concern for us,” James Buntin said. “We don’t want our baby to die.”\nA St. Vincent spokesman said McGlorthon was fired last week. She worked for a subcontractor for St. Vincent.\nBrizzi said McGlorthon was expected to surrender Tuesday or Wednesday. She was not in custody at Marion County Jail on Tuesday evening.
(10/02/07 4:17am)
NEW YORK – The New York Knicks signed rookie guard Text you want it to say Roderick Wilmont of Indiana to a free agent contract on Monday.\nThe 6-foot-4 Wilmont was the Hoosiers’ second-leading scorer and rebounder last season at 12.5 points and 5.8 boards a game. He also led Indiana with 70 3-point baskets in the regular season.\nWilmont was not selected in the NBA draft in June.