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Office of Scholarships announces first director

By Ab D. Phillip · Friday, Sept. 14,2007 12:04 a.m.

IU announced Thursday that Sarah Booher will be the first director for the Office of Scholarships.

Festival Latino invites all to kick off heritage month

By Chelsea Merta · Friday, Sept. 14,2007 12:04 a.m.

Festival Latino, the first celebration during National Hispanic Heritage Month, will begin tomorrow at 1 p.m. in Dunn Meadow, to give the community a first glance of the events to be held this month.

Asian Culture Center welcomes students for discussion on influence in American society

By Chelsea Merta · Friday, Sept. 14,2007 12:03 a.m.

Asian influences are everywhere: in the clothes we wear, in the food we eat, even in films that we watch.

Police respond to gunshots Thursday

By Shannon McEnerney · Friday, Sept. 14,2007 12:02 a.m.

The IU Police Department received a call in reference to two possible gunshots fired off around 4 a.m. Thursday.

Scars and strength: The story of a survivor

By Allie Townsend · Friday, Sept. 14,2007 12 a.m.

Sitting in the front row of the large classroom in Ballantine Hall, she says she’s nervous, but to look at her, you wouldn’t know it.

IDS Presents...

By Maria Srour · Friday, Sept. 14,2007 12 a.m.

Trustee Vice President Pat Shoulders has been at IU more than 20 years . From 2000 to 2001, he served as the national alumni president and in 2002 he was appointed to the IU board of trustees by the governor. He was elected in 2004 for a second three-year term. What’s your favorite type of yogurt? Banana raspberry. Eating utensil? Spoon. Genre of literature? Biographies, history, historical fiction.

Reds beat Cardinals 5-4 for series sweep

By Joe Kay · Thursday, Sept. 13,2007 11:53 p.m.

The season has brought one setback after another for the St. Louis Cardinals – manager Tony La Russa’s drunken-driving arrest, reliever Josh Hancock’s death, a series of injuries to everyday players. The defending World Series champions may be running out of resilience.

Indiana child abuse rates 1.5 percent times the national average

By Associated Press and Alexandra R. Moses · Thursday, Sept. 13,2007 11:36 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – Two young brothers bludgeoned to death by their mother wielding a 10-pound weight. A 2-year-old slipping out a door with a broken lock and drowning in a pool. A disabled 8-year-old poisoned by a lethal overdose of her allergy medication.

Bloomington Police Department reports

By Sara Amato · Thursday, Sept. 13,2007 11:35 p.m.

The Bloomington Police Department is warning residents about a phone-sweepstakes scam.

New Bloomingfoods opens on 6th Street

By Alexandra R. Moses · Thursday, Sept. 13,2007 11:34 p.m.

Saturday’s grand opening of Bloomingfoods’ newest location will be accompanied by day-long festivities including a 5k race, poetry reading and block party. The new branch of the cooperative grocery store, which promotes local, organic food, is located at 316 W. Sixth St.

Fireworks

Thursday, Sept. 13,2007 11:22 p.m.

A Palestinian boy holds a homemade sparkler firework after breaking his fast at the end of the first day of Ramadan in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday.

Bomb kills top Sunni sheik 10 days after meeting with Bush

By Sameer N. Yacoub · Thursday, Sept. 13,2007 11:22 p.m.

The most prominent figure in a U.S.-backed revolt of Sunni sheiks against al-Qaida in Iraq was killed Thursday by a bomb planted near his home in Anbar province, 10 days after he met with President Bush, police and tribal leaders said.

Quick-forming Hurricane Humberto dumps heavy rain in Texas, Louisiana as it weakens

By Juan A. Lozano · Thursday, Sept. 13,2007 11:21 p.m.

Humberto, the first hurricane to hit the U.S. in two years, sneaked up on south Texas and Louisiana overnight and crashed ashore Thursday with heavy rains and 80 mph winds, killing at least one person.

Early results project Kanye the winner over 50 Cent in CD sales face-off

By Nekesa Mumbi Moody · Thursday, Sept. 13,2007 10:39 p.m.

NEW YORK – 50 Cent may be getting hip-hop’s equivalent of a gold watch next week.

Led Zeppelin to reunite for Ahmet Ertegun tribute concert in London

By Romina Spina · Thursday, Sept. 13,2007 10:39 p.m.

LONDON – Led Zeppelin will perform a one-time comeback concert in memory of Ahmet Ertegun, a co-founder of Atlantic Records.

New ‘My Fair Lady’ gears up for North American tour

Thursday, Sept. 13,2007 10:39 p.m.

NEW YORK – On a quiet Labor Day weekend in a sunlit, fourth-floor rehearsal studio just off of Times Square, the “Ascot Gavotte” is about to begin.

Declassified documents give way to ‘Edible Secrets’ art installation

By Rorye O'Connor and Rorye O'Conner · Thursday, Sept. 13,2007 10:24 p.m.

Top Secret! The CIA once gave a Cuban operative poison to put in Fidel Castro’s daily chocolate milk shake.

‘Romeo and Juliet’ to be performed with a Bloomington twist

By Lara Streyle · Thursday, Sept. 13,2007 10:22 p.m.

One of Shakespeare’s best known plays, “Romeo and Juliet” will be modernized tonight and given a Bloomington spin. Russell McGee and the Monroe County Civil Theatre will premiere the play at 7 p.m. Friday in Bloomington’s Third Street Park.

Fashion+Function+Art a colorful success

By Lauren Younis · Thursday, Sept. 13,2007 10:21 p.m.

The Buskirk-Chumley Theater’s Fashion+Function+Art show Wednesday gave onlookers the chance to see Bloomington through a different lens – literally.

BREAKING DOWN THE GAME

By Aaron Beard · Thursday, Sept. 13,2007 9:42 p.m.

Click here for exclusive online only keys to IU's noon matchup with Akron on Saturday at Memorial Stadium

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