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Roadside bombs kill 4 US soldiers, 8 locals in Iraq

Roadside bombs killed four U.S. soldiers in Iraq on Tuesday, the military said, in the deadliest day for American troops in the country in weeks, as a series of bomb attacks along roads claimed eight Iraqi lives.



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Afghan recount ordered; Karzai nears outright win

A U.N.-backed commission Tuesday ordered a recount of tainted ballots from the Afghan presidential vote, saying it had “convincing evidence of fraud,” even as President Hamid Karzai for the first time surpassed the threshold needed to avoid a runoff and win re-election.



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IUPUI receives teaching grant on U.S. religion, history

INDIANAPOLIS – A National Endowment for the Humanities grant will help the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis train high school teachers on the role of religion in American history and life.


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Panel sets first meeting on Ind. jobless system

INDIANAPOLIS – A new committee formed to provide oversight of Indiana’s unemployment insurance fund is set to have its first meeting on Wednesday.


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Group pushing to switch Ind. to Central Time

CARMEL, Ind. – A group that wants to move all of Indiana into the Central Time Zone is asking state legislators to reopen the time debate.


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Police use sobriety checkpoints

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Indiana continued to enforce its “Over the Limit, Under Arrest” campaign during Labor Day weekend. The Indiana State Police  were able to catch a number of impaired drivers with a sobriety checkpoint set up in Bloomington on South Walnut Street.


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Blige, Brown to remember Michael Jackson with global Vienna tribute

VIENNA – Top artists such as Mary J. Blige, Akon and Chris Brown will sing some of Michael Jackson’s greatest hits at a Sept. 26 global tribute. But the much-anticipated lineup was a disappointment to a throng of reporters who had speculated that superstars such as Madonna would be part of the show to be staged in front of a 17th-century palace in the Austrian capital.


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Photographer Annie Leibovitz’s to pay loan or lose properties, photos

NEW YORK – Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz risks losing the copyright to her images – and her entire life’s work – if she doesn’t pay back a $24 million loan that was due Tuesday. The lender, Art Capital Group, sued Leibovitz in July claiming she breached an agreement that authorized it to act as the agent in the sale of her photography and real estate.


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Improv: the unexpected art

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A room full of people giggled, gasped and guffawed Friday night. At the end of the show, each cast member took his or her bow amidst thunderous applause and cheering as the audience showed their appreciation for the performance they just witnessed.


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Ten great songs that’ll make you party

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Here are the songs that make you turn up the stereo, get up off the couch to dance and put your hands in the air and sing along. Here I have ten great beats, old and new, that need to be on everyone’s playlist to make the night memorable (with or without alcohol).


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West Side Story auditions attract 300 students

Students swarmed the hallway outside an opera rehearsal room filled with nerves and crescendos as auditions for “West Side Story” took place Sunday at the Musical Arts Center. More than 300 students showed up to sing and dance for a chance to participate in the show that will run in April.


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‘The Beatles: Rock Band’ (re)makes history

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More than 30 years after the Beatles’ untimely dissolution, a video game allowing fans to go where no fan has gone before rises from the ashes. Today, “The Beatles: Rock Band” is released worldwide, enabling gamers not just to see John, Paul, George and Ringo perform psychedelic hits in legendary venues, but to be the band as well.




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Suicide awareness

Suicide is a public health problem that is preventable. Most people who die by suicide do not want to die; rather, they want to relieve their pain, or “psychache,” that they are experiencing but feel hopeless about doing so.


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Credit where credit’s due

Looking around at the relative prosperity of our country, I would have to say that American men by and large do a pretty good job.