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Evansille to have free clinic for nonunion workers

A top city official expects a new free health clinic for nonunion city employees and their dependents will result in savings for the city within a year and a half.


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80 dogs seized in raids linked to fighting

Authorities have seized about 80 pit bulls during raids at two southern Indiana sites suspected of breeding and training dogs for illegal fighting.


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Scaring students into driving safely

To try to deter teens from reckless driving, the town court of Mooresville, Ind., created a specific traffic program that shocks and scares teens into safer driving methods.


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Ind. beaches receive poor ranks

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Indiana’s beaches are among the most polluted in the United States, according to a report released July 29 by the Natural Resources Defense Council.


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JFK's sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at 88

HYANNIS, Mass. – President John F. Kennedy's sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who carried on the family's public service tradition by founding the Special Olympics and championing the rights of the mentally disabled, died Tuesday morning, her family said in a statement. She was 88.



Boys and Girls Club

IU football team connects with area children

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For the first time, the Hoosiers partnered with the Bloomington Boys & Girls Club on their home turf and brought about 75 members of the group to Memorial Stadium on Thursday for a day of fun and games with some of the children’s favorite athletes.


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New students discuss ‘phallocracy,’ Playgirl in intro to college classroom

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Intensive Freshman Seminars occur during the three weeks leading up to IU Welcome Week. Each student enrolls in one specially designed course. Topics range from climate change to Shakespeare to human genetics. Courses are taught by IU faculty members. Each class is limited to 20 students, according to the IFS Web site, www.ifs.indiana.edu.


Boy Scouts conference leads to 5,000 percent increase in bullying

At the end of each school session, the IDS publishes the Radish, a satirical page for IU students. All events and sources are false.IU Police Department released figures this week indicating that, in the wake of the Boy Scouts of America’s National Order of the Arrow Conference at IU, reports of campus bullying have gone up by 5,000 percent.



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Homeless Holocaust survivor leaves university 100K

JERUSALEM – Hebrew University has received a surprise donation of more than $100,000 from an unexpected benefactor – a woman who survived the Nazi Holocaust and appeared to be destitute, a university official said Sunday.


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Around the Arts

A selection of arts events around the area.


China Flood

Typhoon Morakot forces evacuation of 1 million Chinese

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Typhoon Morakot churned toward China forcing the evacuation of nearly 1 million people Sunday, a day after lashing Taiwan with torrential rains that caused the worst flooding on the island in 50 years.


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A musical sport

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What I expected was a glorified marching band. What I got was so much more.


Town Hall Protest

Health-care outbursts foreshadow a hot August

DES MOINES, Iowa – Loud outbursts, hot tempers and pleas for civility at town hall meetings around the country Saturday foreshadowed a long, hot August as Democratic lawmakers returning home faced resistance to proposals to reform the nation’s costly health-care system.


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The nerd pack

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After learning that John Hughes, who brought us the Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy perfection that was “The Breakfast Club,” died Thursday at the age of 59, my inner 14-year-old self sighed.




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Woman angry after tear gas fired into her home

A central Indiana woman said she was left homeless after a police SWAT team fired tear gas into her house, trying to force out a fugitive who wasn’t inside.