Renowned IU professor dies at 91
George Gaber, 91, renowned percussionist and professor emeritus, died Wednesday at Bloomington’s Meadowood Health Pavilion.
George Gaber, 91, renowned percussionist and professor emeritus, died Wednesday at Bloomington’s Meadowood Health Pavilion.
IU suffered a tough first loss to Xavier in the finals of the Chicago Invitational Challenge Saturday.
The IU women’s basketball team spent Thanksgiving break in the Virgin Islands for the Paradise Jam Tournament. The Hoosiers lost two out of three games on the trip, bringing their record to 4-2.
With 4:31 remaining in the first half of Saturday’s Chicago Invitational Challenge championship, junior guard/forward Jamarcus Ellis hit a jumper to pull the IU men’s basketball team within one point of Xavier.
Unlucky loss number seven kept the IU women’s soccer team from advancing to the round of eight in the NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers’ season ended with a 13-7-3 record on a rainy Sunday in Bloomington as they fell to the Duke Blue Devils 2-0.
Mike Green and Butler rode the 3-point shot all the way to a championship in the Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout.
Rebuilding. Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis started the season by vowing never to use the word. Now he will spend the next nine months trying to accomplish it after the Fighting Irish (3-9) went from earning consecutive Bowl Championship Series berths to becoming the target of late-night talk show jokes.
LeBron James had his fourth triple-double of the season, and the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Indiana Pacers 111-106 Sunday for their third straight win. James, the league’s leading scorer, finished with 30 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. It was the 14th triple-double of his career.
The IU wrestling team continued its hot start to the season by going undefeated at the Hoosier Duals this weekend. Extending their record to 6-0, the Hoosiers dominated the competition at Assembly Hall on Saturday by posting dual match team victories of at least 23 points in each match.
While most students braved traffic jams and delays at airports in order to get home for Thanksgiving, many international students at IU did not have the luxury of flying to their home countries for the break.
It’s not often that a person gets to see one of the wonders of the world, ride an elephant, visit with top government officials and see poverty and happiness all in the same place, but 50 IU students did just that this month.
Labor leader Kevin Rudd appeared set for a sweeping victory in elections in Australia on Saturday
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Dozens of members of a Russian opposition party and other activists were detained by police Sunday as they tried to gather for a protest rally in central St. Petersburg.
WADESVILLE, Ind. – A 29-year-old woman was fatally shot Thursday while trying to coax her dog from a neighbor’s yard and was hit by a bullet that ricocheted off the ground and under a plastic fence before striking her shoulder.
INDIANAPOLIS – U.S. Rep. Julia Carson told a newspaper she has terminal lung cancer but did not say whether she intends to return to Congress or seek a seventh term. Carson, 69, said in a statement published in The Indianapolis Star on Sunday that she had planned to return to Washington after recuperating from a leg infection before a doctor diagnosed her with cancer.
Indiana State Police Lt. Paul Bucher, commander at the department’s Bloomington post, announced Sunday that officers statewide will begin using a new electronic ticket system to generate computerized citations.
NEW YORK – It’s a worst-case scenario that became a reality.
NEW YORK – J.K. Rowling’s magical, Midas touch has landed her on the cover of Entertainment Weekly as the magazine’s entertainer of the year.
BERLIN – Nobel laureate Guenter Grass has filed a lawsuit against the publisher of his biography for claiming that he voluntarily joined the Nazis’ murderous Waffen-SS unit during World War II, his lawyer said Friday.
Nell Weatherwax wears many different hats. She is an instructor, physical theater performer and artist.