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Lawson and Coover earn All-American Honors at NCAA Track and Field Championships

By IDS staff and Aaron Beard · Saturday, June 14,2008 2:28 p.m.

Junior Jeff Coover and Senior Kiwan Lawson traveled to Des Moines, Iowa for the first NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship of their careers.

Angel Escobedo fights for Olympic spot

By Aaron Beard and Jason Quinley · Saturday, June 14,2008 2:02 p.m.

Don’t call them “little.” The action you’ll see in the 121 lb.(55 kg) class in the 2008 Olympic Wrestling Trials is anything but.

NBC’s Tim Russert dead at 58

By Laurie Kellman and Stephen Graham · Friday, June 13,2008 4:47 p.m.

Tim Russert, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” and its Washington bureau chief collapsed and died at work Friday after suffering an apparent heart attack. He was 58.

U.S. life expectancy surpasses 78 years

By Abdullah AlShihri · Thursday, June 12,2008 11:16 a.m.

For the first time, U.S. life expectancy has surpassed 78 years, the government reported Wednesday.

Oil companies spared new tax

By Abdullah AlShihri · Thursday, June 12,2008 11:14 a.m.

Saved by Senate Republicans, big oil companies dodged an attempt Tuesday to slap them with a windfall profits tax and take away billions of dollars in tax breaks in response to the record gasoline prices that have the nation fuming.

Child-porn images stricken from online forums

By Abdullah AlShihri · Thursday, June 12,2008 11:13 a.m.

Online forums where thousands of child-porn images have been posted have been stricken from three Internet providers, including two of the nation’s five largest, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday.

U.S.-led airstrike kills Pakistani troops

By Abdullah AlShihri · Thursday, June 12,2008 11:10 a.m.

U.S.-led coalition forces along the volatile Afghan border launched an airstrike that killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops, Pakistan’s army said Wednesday.

Gas prices remain high

By Abdullah AlShihri · Thursday, June 12,2008 11:09 a.m.

The Energy Department said motorists can expect gasoline prices to remain close to $4 a gallon through next year.

Bush says diplomacy is 1st choice in Iran standoff

By Abdullah AlShihri and Deb Riechmann · Thursday, June 12,2008 11:04 a.m.

MESEBERG, Germany – President Bush, in a fresh warning to Tehran, said Wednesday he favors a peaceful resolution to the nuclear standoff with Iran but has not ruled out the possible use of military force.

A-bus schedule halved for Summer Session II

By Eric Welch · Thursday, June 12,2008 11:02 a.m.

Campus Bus Service announced its plans to cut back services along the A route during the second summer session due to a sharp rise in fuel costs and a decrease in commuters over the summer.

DNR says limited authority impeded drainage planning

By Megan Meyer · Thursday, June 12,2008 9:13 a.m.

Officials now believe the flooding last week that gushed through campus caused an estimated $1 million to $1.5 million in damage to IU facilities, said Larry Stephens, director of the IU Office of Risk Management.

Hoosiers on trial

By Chris Engel · Wednesday, June 11,2008 9:50 p.m.

Nearly a year after the initial self-investigation into alleged impermissible phone calls made by the men’s basketball staff, the University and former coach Kelvin Sampson will defend themselves in front of the NCAA Committee on Infractions in Seattle Friday and Saturday.

Crawford to leave Hoosiers

By Chris Engel · Wednesday, June 11,2008 9:48 p.m.

Jordan Crawford decided to transfer from IU Wednesday, making him the 11th player to leave the program since the end of last season.

Damage in 29 counties being assessed by FEMA

By Maegen Ionof · Wednesday, June 11,2008 9:25 p.m.

In response to Gov. Mitch Daniel’s request for expedited assistance, President Bush declared Indiana a state of “major disaster” Monday, and has ordered federal funding be made available to assist recovery efforts.

World Wide Leader in bias

By Cory Barker · Wednesday, June 11,2008 8:53 p.m.

Even though it is the largest and most influential sports media outlet, ESPN has been thrashed in the blogosphere continually for a while now. People complain about the World Wide Leader in Sports’ blatant East Coast bias and over-reliance on the “Let’s put two guys together and let them yell at each other about every topic” format.

Forget American soccer, turn to Europe

By Zina Kumok and Aaron Beard · Wednesday, June 11,2008 8:43 p.m.

On a recent trip to Ukraine – the host of the 2012 Union of European Football Association Euro championship and the country where I was born – I started reading Franklin Foer’s “How Football Explains the World.”

Hitting it from 60 yards

By Zachary Osterman and Aaron Beard · Wednesday, June 11,2008 8:41 p.m.

Editor’s Note: Due to the nature of summer deadlines, this column does not take into account games played in Group A on Thursday, June 11. Sue me.

‘As true an IU man as there has ever been’

By Jonathan Benedek · Wednesday, June 11,2008 8:40 p.m.

Inside the office of IU’s director of football operations is a framed photograph taken in Pasadena, Calif, on Jan. 1, 1968. That was the only time the Indiana Hoosiers played in the Rose Bowl. It was also the last college football game director of IU football operations Harold Mauro played

It's not easy being green

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, June 11,2008 8:34 p.m.

Kermit was right. Going green is difficult, and in the case of green schools, it’s also expensive. The 21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act represents Congress’s latest effort to pump money into environmental-efficiency projects.

Flash floods leave football field in frenzy

By IDS staff and Aaron Beard · Wednesday, June 11,2008 8:34 p.m.

Along with other facilities around the city of Bloomington on Wednesday, the damage left by last week’s floods put the status of Memorial Stadium’s field in peril for the upcoming months.

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