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Cowboy boots to high heels

By Sarah Brubeck · Sunday, July 26,2009 8:36 p.m.

Besides wearing her tiara and trying to attend as many fair events with her court as possible, the Monroe County Queen, Makenzy Hamilton, will also spend a lot of her time grooming and showing her two horses.

IU welcomes Best Buddies

By Brad Zehr · Sunday, July 26,2009 8:31 p.m.

The Best Buddies national leadership conference this weekend at IU celebrated 20 years of connecting volunteers and people with intellectual disabilities.

Lynch discusses upcoming season

By Candice Rohrman · Sunday, July 26,2009 8:28 p.m.

IU football coach Bill Lynch said fans should prepare for a new face to his team when the season kicks off against Eastern Kentucky on Sept. 3.

A new summer mix

By Carrie Schedler · Sunday, July 26,2009 7:04 p.m.

For the past several years, I have had a summer music ritual.

Art of the recession: gallery owners struggling with finances

Sunday, July 26,2009 7:01 p.m.

With houses going up for auction, unemployment continuing to rise and the threat of layoffs seemingly ever-present, many gallery owners in art communities such as Scottsdale, Ariz., Santa Fe, N.M., Portland, Ore., and New York City are closing shop, going broke to stay open or drastically changing the way they do business.

Waiters and cooks switch roles at the Upland Brewery for Hoosier Hills Food Bank

By Sarah Brubeck · Sunday, July 26,2009 7:01 p.m.

Jake Herring is usually a cook at the Upland Brewery – flipping burgers and hiding behind the safety of the kitchen door – but on Sunday he was a waiter, serving dishes and fighting with the point of sales machine.

Phish to start own music fest

Sunday, July 26,2009 6:59 p.m.

Phish is headed to the Coachella Valley for a three-day music festival all its own.

Economy blamed for slump in blood donations

Sunday, July 26,2009 6:50 p.m.

The River Valley Blood Services Region says about 14 regional blood drives have been canceled this summer by companies citing economic concerns.

Policemen cycle across Indiana to honor fallen officers

By Tom Reese · Sunday, July 26,2009 6:49 p.m.

Several of Indiana’s finest are touring the state on bicycles this month, riding to remember fallen comrades and raise money for their surviving families.

IUPUI prof. wins 2nd Press Club criticism award

Sunday, July 26,2009 6:44 p.m.

IU-Purdue University Indianapolis journalism professor Sherry Ricchiardi has won the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism for a second time.

University nixes fair’s IU Day

Sunday, July 26,2009 6:43 p.m.

Fans of IU Day at the Indiana State Fair will have to do without this year.

Local union loses employee, friend

Sunday, July 26,2009 6:42 p.m.

The Communications Workers of America Local 4730 has lost a renaissance woman.

Palin faces questions as she exits Alaska politics before term ends

Sunday, July 26,2009 6:36 p.m.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gained fame – and, to some, infamy – since she embarked on a vice-presidential bid less than a year ago. Her surprising departure from Alaska’s top office is gaining her something else: questions over her motives and next big move.

Regional (af)fair

By Sarah Brubeck · Sunday, July 26,2009 6:35 p.m.

Each year, the number of residents who attend the Monroe County fair to munch on elephant ears, drive in the derby or show livestock fluctuates between 2,000 and 10,000. And this year the board is expecting about 10,000, said Wally Hamilton, first vice president of the fair board.

4 suspects detained in Mexico in US border agent killing

Sunday, July 26,2009 6:35 p.m.

CHULA VISTA, Calif. – Mexican police announced the arrests Saturday of four men suspected of involvement in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent as American investigators searched hospitals for gunmen who were possibly wounded in the first such shooting death in more than a decade.

Exiled Honduran leader Zelaya makes 2nd trip to border, will camp out

Sunday, July 26,2009 6:34 p.m.

LAS MANOS, Nicaragua – Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya returned to the Honduran border Saturday and announced he would set up camp there, despite foreign leaders urging him not to force a confrontation with the government that ousted him in last month’s coup.

Re-acting stupidly

Sunday, July 26,2009 5:53 p.m.

WE SAY The President’s response is being over-analyzed.Over the next four (or eight) years, Obama is not going to say the right thing all the time. We shouldn’t dwell or look too deeply on a momentary lapse in judgment.

The private lives of public officials

Sunday, July 26,2009 5:50 p.m.

What should we do when a politician’s life goes off the rails? The answer, I’m afraid, is that there is no answer.

Parenting doesn’t make sense

By Tyler Chernesky · Sunday, July 26,2009 5:49 p.m.

With so much at stake, it’s hard to see how anyone could ever be ready to raise a child.

IU’s racial disparity

By Jacob Levin · Sunday, July 26,2009 5:48 p.m.

At IU, students who are randomly assigned a roommate of a different race are three times more likely to request a change than students who were given a same-race roommate. Administrators' response illustrates clearly the disconnect between IU’s very real diversity woes and what the administration thinks it’s doing to solve them.

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