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Ind. prosecutor found to have inactive license

Sunday, July 19,2009 6:46 p.m.

Hundreds of criminal convictions, including that of a man found guilty of a crash that killed three people, could return to court because the Indiana prosecutor who oversaw the cases had an inactive law license for more than three years.

Forum to spotlight Lugar's immigration bill

By Tom Reese · Sunday, July 19,2009 6:45 p.m.

Staff members of Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., are organizing a forum to discuss the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act on Tuesday in Evansville.

Glory days of newspapers

Sunday, July 19,2009 6:21 p.m.

We post-Watergate kids simply lived through a time we might not ever see again – the glory days of journalism.

Extend government health-care programs

Sunday, July 19,2009 6:20 p.m.

Why haven’t the industrialized nations who have government-mandated health care ceded the coverage back to the unlimited profit-seeking private providers?

Updating hate crime

Sunday, July 19,2009 6:18 p.m.

WE SAY Sexual orientation should be a part of the new definition but needs better deliberation.Even if we agree with those provisions, we don’t want to get in the habit of overlooking instances of the way irrelevant provisions are inserted within legislation.

Peru and the Half-Blood Prince

By Erin Chapman · Sunday, July 19,2009 6:13 p.m.

In Lima old Spanish words like “mestizo” still have a powerful meaning.

Can you spell ‘birthday sex’?

By Tyler Chernesky · Sunday, July 19,2009 6:10 p.m.

There’s nothing like working with children to show you the trashiness of our culture.

China says police killed 12 in Uighur street riot

Sunday, July 19,2009 5:41 p.m.

BEIJING – Chinese police killed 12 people during July 5 rioting in the western city of Urumqi, officials said – a rare acknowledgment by the government that security forces opened fire in the worst ethnic clashes to hit the region in decades.

Russia still blue over moon landing 40 years later

Sunday, July 19,2009 5:40 p.m.

MOSCOW – When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon, it was a first for the Soviet Union – the first time the United States had beaten the USSR in the space race.

India stands firm against binding emissions limits

Sunday, July 19,2009 5:39 p.m.

NEW DELHI – India stood firm Sunday against Western demands to accept binding limits on carbon emissions even as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed optimism about an eventual climate change deal to India’s benefit.

Dozens injured in San Francisco light-rail crash

Sunday, July 19,2009 5:38 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO – A light-rail train crashed into the rear of another train at a San Francisco boarding platform Saturday, injuring at least 48 people, authorities said.

Terrorist attacks rekindle Indonesians’ anxieties

Sunday, July 19,2009 5:37 p.m.

JAKARTA, Indonesia – The terrorist attacks that struck two luxury hotels in the capital have shaken ordinary Indonesians who had grown more confident after waves of arrests had left the nation’s al-Qaida-linked militant network seriously weakened.