Airline pilots will be allowed to fly until they turn 65 instead of the current mandatory retirement age of 60 under a proposal to be announced Tuesday by Federal Aviation Administrator Marion Blakey.
Signs that read, "What would Herman Do?" abounded outside Assembly Hall on Saturday as union workers and their supporters rallied against outsourcing University services by invoking the name of former IU President Herman B Wells. About 50 protestors braved the cold and collected signatures for a petition calling on the IU board of trustees to "end all efforts to outsource IU jobs," according to the petition's text. Several trustees have said during the past few weeks that although nothing is certain yet, they believe contracting some University services could help cut non-academic costs. Dave Warrick, executive director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 62, disagrees with the trustees' entire premise that contracting will save money.
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Assailants struck Shiite worshippers in three Iraqi cities Tuesday, killing at least 39 people in bombings and ambushes during the climax of ceremonies marking Ashoura, the holiest day in the Shiite calendar.
Saturday marked the final night of this year's PRIDE film festival, which displayed films taking on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues. The event was held at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in support of the GLBT community. The films shown tackled GLBT issues in ways that typical Hollywood movies tend to leave out.
You can call them freaks or geeks, but they'll correct you with "friends." The Hoosier Alliance, a local Bloomington Star Wars club, is taking "the force" and adding a bit of Indiana charm. "People can see us as freaks," said Eric Stuckey, Alliance president. "But I'm 35 and I've never had as good of friends as I've found in this club." An official chapter of theforce.net, the club welcomes people from all walks of life and all ages, a good number of them IU students. Junior Cole Horton and senior Amelia Hilliker, make up two of the group's 15 regular members, and despite some significant age differences with some of the others, they say the atmosphere alone is enough to make you feel right at home. And you don't need to be obsessed to join. "Star Wars is an interest, a hobby," Horton said. "It's not my entire life." But it is five months' rent. If you ever see a stormtrooper watching IU basketball like a true Hoosier, it could be Horton. The avid fan dropped a sum so large on his stormtrooper ensemble that he could only describe it in months of spent rent. "They asked me to run with the flags once," he said with a smile. "But it would have been pretty embarrassing to fall in front of an entire crowd. I can't see a thing in that suit." "He's the pimp of the club," Hilliker jokes. "It's got to be that uniform."
What do Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the day after the Super Bowl have in common? Besides falling on the first day of the work week, not much. But freshman Zac Foutz and more than 4,000 other students hope that, like MLK Day, IU students can take the day off after the big game.
A man held a Marsh grocery store employee hostage Sunday night. The Bloomington Police Department received a call at 10:27 p.m. that a man armed with a gun and a bomb was inside the store located at 1825 N. Kinser Pike and was threatening to detonate the bomb, according to a BPD press release.
The new campus shuttle service for IU faculty and staff saw few riders in its first day of service. Throughout the entire day a total of six passengers sat in the cushioned seats of the tan and red IU bus as it made laps through campus.
An IU student reported being raped late Friday night at McNutt Quad, according to IU police. The female student told IUPD she consumed alcohol in her dorm room and then went to a party within the dorm, where she continued to consume alcohol, Capt. Jerry Minger said, reading from a police report.
Because of a drop in enrollment and therefore in revenue, IU is having to review one of its regional campuses. In response to budgetary problems at IU-East Richmond, a task force has been appointed by IU President Adam Herbert.
The Black Scholars Collective is hosting a program titled "Say It Loud: I'm Black and I'm Proud!" at 8 p.m. tonight at the Willkie Residence Center to celebrate February's Black History Month.
IU President Adam Herbert was taken to Bloomington Hospital Monday morning after a pill became lodged in his throat.
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Hugo Chavez has just about everything a president could want: popular support, a marginalized opposition, congress firmly on his side and a booming economy as he starts his new six-year term.
MIAMI -- The city of Miami is planning an official celebration at the Orange Bowl whenever Cuban President Fidel Castro dies.
A judge on Monday granted supervised visitation rights to a mother charged with neglect after her 3-year-old son was found wandering on a busy highway last month.
A head-on crash near campus killed a Ball State University freshman who was a member of the school's golf team.
A blue silk flag carried by soldiers of Evansville's 25th Indiana Volunteer Regiment during the Civil War was welcomed back to the Indiana War Memorial on Monday.
A 26-year-old Bloomington man was arrested on one count of child molestation Sunday. The man confessed to Bloomington Police Officer Joe Henry that while waking up a 13-year-old female relative who had stayed the night at his house he fondled her, Sgt. Jeff Canada said while reading from a police report.
A man was found dead inside his pickup truck Monday afternoon, after it had been stranded in flood waters, Monday.
