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Check out what's going on with the arts around Bloomington.
Check out what's going on with the arts around Bloomington.
WASHINGTON -- Democrats on Sunday seized on an intelligence assessment that said the Iraq war has increased the terrorist threat, saying it was further evidence that Americans should choose new leadership in the November elections.
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's feuding ethnic and sectarian groups agreed Sunday to consider amending the constitution and begin debating legislation to create a federated nation, while the Shiite prime minister appealed for an end to violence during Ramadan.
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- Authorities on Sunday were trying to pinpoint who killed three children an investigator says were found decomposing inside the washer and dryer of their apartment home, hours after a woman was accused of killing their pregnant mother and her fetus.
SAILING -- Participants in the Lake Lemon Open Regatta brave the Sunday morning winds during the last competition of the year. The event was sponsored by the Bloomington Yacht Club and is the last racing event of the 2006 season.
Every time I head back home to what has inevitably become "my parents' house," I have to face the nightmare of my past: my old bedroom.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — More stormy weather was forecast Sunday after two days of high winds, heavy rain and tornadoes were blamed for at least nine deaths in the Midwest and the South.
As is the style of many operas, IU Opera Theater's production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" explores the ins and outs of love and relationships through the lens of melodrama. From men as lotharios to identities hidden by makeshift disguises and love portrayed as a casual emotion, the stereotypes abound.
FORT WAYNE -- A man reported missing by relatives was found more than a day later hiding in a ventilation shaft at Fort Wayne's Shrine Temple.
INDIANAPOLIS -- A Virginia company that makes automated political phone calls is suing the state of Indiana, saying its ban on such calls violates its right to free speech.
The debate over debates continues in the closely watched 9th District congressional race, with one date now officially cancelled.
Casualties of war are counted in death tolls, not by looted portraits or lost cultures. Records of war are scripted by treaties. However, there is a muffled outcry reaching beyond these standards of combat.
INDIANAPOLIS -- NCAA Division I universities improved this year in considering minority candidates for head football coaches, but more progress is needed and resorting to civil rights laws might be necessary, the Black Coaches Association said Thursday. With only 10 minority head coaches currently among more than 200 Division I-A and I-AA schools that are not historically black institutions, universities must appoint more minority coaches and more diverse search committees for vacant positions. Evidence shows the latter leads to more minority coaches being considered, the BCA said.
With the rain chasing away the home crowd, IU took the field Saturday afternoon with quarterback Blake Powers back at the helm.
The IU Art Museum is working to raise $1 million for the renovation of a gallery that hasn't even seen a new coat of paint in two decades. The third-floor collection of African, Oceanic and pre-Columbian art will be the first room to receive remodeling in a plan to overhaul the layout of the entire museum.
Alison Zook felt like a Barbie doll as she waited backstage at the Buskirk-Chumley Thursday night. "And it smells like an old Barbie doll," she said as she held the black vintage dress to her nose.
Below the Harvard University seal, Amartya Sen's business card distinguishes him as a professor of economics and philosophy; a distinction among many that Sen adds to his resume as a world-renowned Nobel Prize-winning economist.
Some call them foster failures. Those who use this phrase refer to foster parents for the Bloomington Animal Shelter who grow so attached to pets in their temporary care they adopt them.
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Vikings have not won their division in six years, and to get to the top they'll have to push past the Chicago Bears.
The loss is in the past. Heading into Saturday's non-conference game against the University of Connecticut, the IU football team is focused on defeating the Huskies and putting the Southern Illinois University loss behind it.