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Four-legged best friends found at Adopt-a-Thon

The Bloomington Animal Care and Shelter hosted an Adopt-a-Thon on Saturday in an effort to reduce the near-capacity numbers they are experiencing this summer. The event ran from noon to midnight with hopes of facilitating 50 adoptions in one day.



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Meet Your Buddies

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Katie Meabe, 27, Iowa Meabe is a Buddy Ambassador, having completed the rigorous training curriculum provided by Buddies United in Leadership Development. She first started her involvement in high school.


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Teach For America, Peace Corps join forces

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Teach For America and the Peace Corps recently came together to give college graduates more opportunities to give back to those in need. Through the partnership, each organization will encourage their volunteers to consider working with the other program in an effort to move forward.

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Baby-food dieting

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The director of nutrition for WebMD, Kathleen Zelman, wrote that celebrities are substituting one or more of their meals every day with baby food. And columnist, Margaret Ely, doesn't understand the trend.


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Women’s Institute teaches business practices

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So, in 2006, the first Young Women’s Institute was created to reach out to young women in high schools and introduce them to the opportunities in business degrees, said Kathleen Robbins, director and founder of the undergraduate program at the Kelley School.


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Teen violin virtuoso wins international competition

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Brian Allen, a member of the Violin Virtuosi, recently won the Lions Clubs International Global Youth Music Competition. He was awarded a monetary prize of $10,000 and also traveled to Sydney for a week and a half to perform in the 2010 music competition.




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Tip your waiter

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The importance of leaving a good tip was hammered into me during my stint as a barista in high school.




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Eric Beba stops in Bloomington on walk for Africa

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One foot forward, and Eric Beba’s mind goes back in time. With each step 29-year-old Beba takes on his approximately 1,000-mile journey from Savannah, Ga., to Chicago, he recalls his earlier years living in Burkina Faso.


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Head-on crash kills Yellow Cab driver

Police are continuing to investigate an accident that left a Yellow Cab Co. driver dead and a Bloomington man hospitalized.


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Student dies in single-car accident

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Jared Shears, a junior from LaFontaine, Ind.. died Friday in a single-car collision on Old State Road 15. The Wabash County Sheriff’s Department received a call about the accident at 1:58 a.m. Friday morning and responded to the scene.


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Textbook affordability act to improve costs

Two years after the Senate enacted the Higher Education Opportunity Act, Durbin’s provision of the bill has finally gone into effect to help save college students hundreds of dollars.


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Coverdales hold auction for Alzheimer’s

Tom Coverdale’s mother lost her eight-year battle with Alzheimer’s this May, and Coverdale and his family have decided to do something proactive for the destructive ailment, by starting the Coverdale Family Auction to Fight Alzheimer’s.



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Monroe County Fair offers new rides, food, entertainment

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The Monroe County Fair has been a tradition for more than 100 years, and Saturday marks this year’s opening day. This eight-day event takes place from noon to 10 p.m. July 24-31 at the Monroe County Fairgrounds, located at 5700 W. Airport Rd.


Campus Bus Service sets ridership record

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IU’s Campus Bus Service set a new milestone in rider participation this fiscal year, which ended June 30, by transporting nearly 3.5 million passengers. This record beat the previous years’ by nearly 200,000 passengers, a 10.9 percent increase during the past year. It also makes IU’s bus system the third-most used in Indiana, after Indianapolis and Lafayette.