The Senate plans to hold a hearing next week looking into antitrust issues surrounding the college football Bowl Championship Series.
WE SAY More money should be sent on maintaining our roads.There are ways to reduce congestion and greenhouse gases without subsidizing public transport so heavily. But in any case, more money is certainly needed to maintain our ailing roads.
Who ended up more disturbed: Jackson or the culture that adored him?
Sharing our fears with the people we're close with is all we can do.
Hailing from the greatest country in the world, we Americans expect solutions to the most sensational issues at the same rapid pace we are made aware of them.
WASHINGTON – President Obama is hoping that lessons learned from a 1976 flu outbreak can help the country act wisely to combat the current spread of swine flu.
NEW YORK – Bernard Madoff, even as he faces the prospect of dying behind bars for his epic swindle, has never wavered on one point: He acted alone.
LOS ANGELES – The first hints about Michael Jackson’s final wishes surfaced Tuesday in a will he signed nearly seven years ago to the day, and although details won’t be available until the document is filed in a court, there’s nothing to indicate that its instructions are at odds with the hasty arrangements made by the singer’s mother and father.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Honduras’ ousted president won overwhelming international support Tuesday as he planned a high-profile return to his chaotic country. The politicians who sent soldiers to fly him into exile in his pajamas said he will be arrested for treason if he tries.
SAN GERARDO, Ecuador – In the highlands of the Andes, near the base of Chimborazo, one of the Western Hemisphere’s tallest mountains, rests a small village of about 600 people called San Gerardo.
IU alumni elected Phil Eskew Jr. to a second three-year term as an IU trustee on Tuesday. Eskew won with 9.173 of 26,300 votes.
INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana House has voted to pass a new two-year state budget after an impassioned debate that reflected deep divisions among lawmakers.
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Supreme Court has ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner of the state’s long-running Senate race.
INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA on Tuesday rejected an appeal from former Indiana basketball coach Kelvin Sampson, who was slapped with five years of potential penalties for taking part in more than 100 impermissible calls to recruits while coaching the Hoosiers.BLOG: Basketblog
The possibility of state government shutting down is a frightening thought. But if the Indiana General Assembly does not pass the new state budget for 2009 by midnight Tuesday, that is exactly what could happen.
NEW YORK – Convicted swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison Monday for fraud so extensive that the judge said he needed to send a symbolic message to those who might imitate his fraud and to victims who need relief.
COPENHAGEN – Lately Denmark has been battling an influx of immigrants that has resulted from the war in Iraq. In late May, Danish officials made an agreement with the Iraqi government to “forcibly” return Iraqi refugees that were rejected from citizenship.
DUBENDORF, Switzerland – This Friday, a team of European engineers revealed their finished, full-sized prototype of the Solar Impulse. With a wingspan of more than 200 feet and a weight of approximately 3,500 pounds, the Solar Impulse is one of the first plausible aircrafts to be entirely powered by solar energy.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – More than a dozen soldiers arrested President Manuel Zelaya and disarmed his security guards after surrounding his residence before dawn Sunday, his private secretary said. Protesters called it a coup and flocked to the presidential palace as local news media reported that Zelaya was sent into exile.
Where’s the money? That’s probably a question IU is asking Gov. Mitch Daniels. But despite the unset state budget, IU will continue to operate under its existing budgets after Tuesday – that’s if the budget still has yet to be passed at that time.
