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Snow does not stop women’s formal recruitment

While the song “Let it Snow” could describe the winter scene of the IU campus Saturday and Sunday, the members of Alpha Phi sang a different tune.SLIDESHOW: 19 Party

Child services to take no legal action against Planned Parenthood employee

Hoosiers downed in NCAA Tourney

Mike Freitag had little to say. After Saturday’s 3-2 elimination loss to St. John’s in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament, the Hoosiers headed home, one match short of the College Cup.

Hoosiers hang tough in 70-54 loss against No. 5 Gonzaga

INDIANAPOLIS – Stopping short of calling it a moral victory, IU coach Tom Crean said his team played “as close to a full 40-minute effort” as they have all season.SLIDESHOW: IU men's basketball vs Gonzaga

Men's basketball defeated by Zags in Indy

INDIANAPOLIS – After being trounced by No. 17 Wake Forest on Wednesday, IU faced another nationally ranked foe Saturday – Gonzaga.

Swimming and diving competes during weekend in Georgia, Ohio

TALKING COLTS: Manning throws away Bengals for 6th-straight win

INDIANAPOLIS – Campus lore says you’re not supposed to learn anything new during dead week.

RUNNING THE FLOOR: Not too shabby

As the IU men’s basketball team exited the first-ever basketball court inside Lucas Oil Stadium on Saturday, the assembled thousands swathed in cream and crimson rose to their feet in applause.

Grapplers finish 9th in Vegas Tourney

The IU wrestling team fell on some bad luck in Sin City this weekend during the 27th Annual Cliff Keen Las Vegas Open.

Police shooting of teen sparks Greek riots

Rioters rampaged through Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki on Sunday, hurling Molotov cocktails, burning stores and blocking city streets with flaming barricades after protests against the fatal police shooting of a teenager erupted into chaos.

McCain: Shift focus to south in Afghanistan War

Sen. John McCain said Sunday that the situation in Afghanistan will get more difficult before it gets easier -  “just like the surge in Iraq was” – as the U.S. prepares to pour thousands more troops into the country, including on the doorsteps of Kabul.

Coach: ‘Ladies became women’ with win

Despite senior forward Whitney Thomas and sophomore guard Jori Davis going a combined 3-for-19 from the field and combining for just 15 points, the IU women’s basketball team overcame a four-point halftime deficit to defeat Miami (Fla.) 69-54 in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge. In the second half, the Hoosiers (5-2) outscored the Hurricanes 41-22 and shot 52 percent from the field.

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NBC names David Gregory host of ‘Meet the Press

David Gregory’s new job as moderator of “Meet the Press” was made official Sunday with an announcement on the long-running NBC interview program that he will take over starting next week.

Obama got it right with Gates

Gates has established himself, in the words of IU junior Miles Taylor, as a “post-partisan pragmatist.”

A sting leads to a planned tragedy

Few organizations find themselves quite in the eye of the storm like Planned Parenthood. While protests outside the clinic and threats against employees are standard fare, clinics nationwide will now have to contend with the latest development – undercover video sting operations. Bloomington’s Planned Parenthood learned this the hard way. In June, a 20-year-old UCLA student, Lila Rose, visited the Bloomington Planned Parenthood Clinic posing as a 13-year-old pregnant from consensual sex with a 31-year-old man. In an undercover video Rose took, Rose asked the nurse, now suspended, about having an abortion.

Woman arrested after lighting marijuana joint in front of state trooper

MUNCIE, Ind. – Police said a Muncie woman was arrested after asking a state trooper whether she could smoke – and then tried to light up a marijuana joint.

Troops prepare to readjust to civilian life

INDIANAPOLIS – For Indiana troops back home from Iraq, there are no more roadside bombs or insurgent gunfire. But the taut readiness that comes from being on guard against attacks remains and can be an obstacle in adapting to civilian life.

Consumed by monstrous merriment

During the holiday season, the nation as a whole seems to come to the conclusion that the bigger, the more elaborate and the more overdone things are, the better.

Mom charged with child neglect in daughter’s death

MUNCIE – A woman failed to manage her 8-year-old daughter’s type 1 diabetes, leading to the child’s death, police said.