Twisters kill 8 people in heartland, others injured
Emergency crews searched for more victims Wednesday amid the wreckage of homes and businesses smashed by a cluster of tornadoes that killed at least eight people.
Emergency crews searched for more victims Wednesday amid the wreckage of homes and businesses smashed by a cluster of tornadoes that killed at least eight people.
Police say a person was hit by a car, then was caught under a van and dragged nearly 17 miles through New York City before the driver realized it.
IU President Michael McRobbie started a committee to enact an upcoming law that would expand college-bound veterans’ benefits in January. The committee consists of IU officials from each campus who work with veterans. Student veterans, at least for the present, are missing from the committee.
It takes Nate Everhart more than an hour – almost two.
During a hearing last week, bar owners and those who testified on behalf of casinos said the ban would hurt their businesses and prohibit adults from using a legal product in their venues, and that in turn would cost jobs.
In one of the most shocking cases of courtroom graft on record, two Pennsylvania judges have been charged with taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers.
When it came time for sophomore Kurt Kinser to choose a college, he didn’t want to go far.
The newly formed Native American Community Center will kick off fundraising as a nonprofit organization with a Valentine’s Day yard sale at the Girls Inc. gymnasium from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Any losing streak is tough. The women’s basketball team is on a three-game one, having lost four of its last five games. IU hopes to break its longest losing streak tonight against Michigan State (17-7, 10-3) at Assembly Hall.
The American Cancer Society’s annual Daffodil Days fundraiser is scheduled for the week of March 23 and the Society is looking for volunteers to help.
Moving with lightning speed, key lawmakers announced an agreement Wednesday on a $789 billion economic stimulus measure designed to create millions of jobs in a nation reeling from recession. President Barack Obama could sign the bill within days.
Joe Kernan, former Indiana governor, and Randall T. Shepard, Indiana Supreme Court chief justice, were in charge of an IU-funded commission that formed 27 recommendations for developing a more effective local government.
While many people associate neon lights with the Las Vegas strip, an “open” sign at a local diner or the signs of a favorite fast food chain, Jason Chakavarty adapts the lights for his art.
Like all artists before us, it is time for us to gather our stuff, make a sensible idea of it all, and mold it into a solid form by which everyone will remember 2009.
The Bloomington Playwrights Project promises to strike love – or embarrassment – into the hearts of IU students and Bloomington residents with live, personalized performances anytime, anywhere Feb. 13 and 14.
An unprecedented economic downfall calls for an unprecedented fix. This much we know for sure.
The IU faculty council is set to vote next Tuesday on a resolution that would criticize the Kelley School of Business’s October decision to award General Peter Pace the school’s honorary Poling Chair.
We’ve hit that time of the year when networks give their shows a little break to tune up before the final push. Audiences are looking at a two- to four-week window without all of their favorites airing new episodes. Slim pickings this week, folks.