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Man shot to death on northeast side
INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis police are investigating a shooting that left a man dead on the city's northeast side. Officers were called to the 4400 block of North Shadeland Avenue just after 11 p.m. Saturday on reports of several gunshots heard in the area. They found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound to his lower body. He was taken to Indiana University Health's ...
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Police Crash sends car into house
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Police have arrested a female driver after they say she caused another car to crash through an apartment building early Sunday morning. The crash happened near the 1800 block of South Emerson around 2 a.m. Sunday. Witnesses tell 24-Hour News 8 the driver of one car was speeding through a parking lot and slammed into another car. The impact sent the parked car through the ...
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Pacers Hold Off Knicks 106-99 Lance Stephenson Leads Indiana Into Eastern Finals vs. Heat
Carmelo Anthony #7 of the New York Knicks drives against Paul George #24 of the Indiana Pacers during the Game Six of the Eastern Conference Semifinals between the New York Knicks and the Indiana Pacers during the 2013 NBA Playoffs on May 18, 2013 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, ...
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North Korea fires projectile into eastern waters
SEOUL, South Korea -; South Korea says North Korea has fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same ...
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Syrian activists Shelling near Lebanon kills 16
A Syrian supporting the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, holds a placard with his picture and the national flag as he participates in a protest outside the US Embassy in central London, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Lefteris ...
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FBI searches Spokane Wash. apartment in ricin letters case
SPOKANE, Wash. — Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ...
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IFD puts out 2 house fires early Sunday morning
INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis Firefighters worked two house fires just after midnight Sunday morning. Crews were dispatched to 2945 N. Chester Ave. at 12:07am. The homeowners noticed smoke in the kitchen area and left the house to call 911. When firefighters arrived, smoke was showing. Crews quickly extinguished that fire that possibly started in the kitchen area. There were no injuries ...
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$590M-plus Powerball 1 winning ticket sold in Florida
DES MOINES, Iowa – It’s all about the odds, and one single ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials disclosed Sunday. The lone winner was sold at a Publix supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., according to Florida Lottery executive Cindy O’Connell. She told The ...
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Pacers Win First Round Take Detour into History
Talk about a transition game. The Pacers wrapped up their First Round playoff series with Atlanta on Friday, barely escaping a haunted house, but still didn't know where they would be sleeping that night as they hit the locker room door. The Knicks were similarly engaged in sweating out the final minutes of their closeout game in Boston, and it wasn't until several of the Pacers had ...
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With NRA it can be one strike and youre out
As a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association with an A+ rating for her voting record in the Tennessee House of Representatives, Debra Maggart never imagined that her political career would end this way.Maggart, who chaired the Republican caucus, killed an NRA-backed bill that would have permitted Tennesseans to keep firearms in their parked vehicles wherever they went – work, ...
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Michigan town feels duped
LEXINGTON, Mich. – Carol Connell remembers well the gift she gave Sara Ylen, a friend seemingly forced to bear too much misery. Ylen, a Michigan mother of two young boys, said she was battling cancer just a few years after a man was convicted of her rape.It was a little box, a very ornate box, to hold a prayer. She needed God to look over her, Connell said, recalling the 2008 lunch ...
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Big groups avoid scrutiny
Demonstrators supporting Americans for Prosperity rally to block Occupy Wall Street protesters last year. Critics say the IRS did not target big groups like Americans for ...
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Turtles draw tourists to Trinidad
Officials with the U.S.-based Sea Turtle Conservancy say Trinidad is now likely the worlds leading tourist destination for people to see ...
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Level of outrage surprises IRS staff
CINCINNATI – The fog of scandal hangs over a boxy, modernist, 10-story building that looks like a monument to paperwork. Every day, 2,000 employees go to work at various federal agencies in this John F. Kennedy-era structure, whose chief tenant is the Internal Revenue Service – which had just about the worst week an agency can have.People in determinations unit have been accused of ...
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Assad US must not interfere
BEIRUT – Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he wont step down before elections and that the United States has no right to interfere in his countrys politics, raising doubts about a U.S-Russian effort to get Assad and his opponents to negotiate an end to the civil war.Assads comments to the Argentine newspaper Clarin were the first about his political ...
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Broken rail studied in crash
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – The commuter train derailment and collision that left dozens injured outside New York City was not the result of foul play, officials said Saturday, but a fractured section of rail is being studied to determine if it is connected to the accident.National Transportation Safety Board member Earl Weener said Saturday the broken rail is of substantial interest to ...
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Blasphemy cases on rise in Egypt
CAIRO – The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist lawyers with long beards sang in unison, All except the Prophet Muhammad.The case against Dimyana Abdel-Nour in southern Egypts ancient city of Luxor began when parents of three of her pupils claimed that their ...
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Parade car loses control 60 hurt
DAMASCUS, Va. – About 50 to 60 people were injured Saturday when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia mountain town.It happened around 2:10 p.m. during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival, an annual celebration of the Appalachian Trail in Damascus, near the Tennessee state line about a ...
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US Myanmar sanctions list far out of date
TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Myanmar next Friday, the first Japanese prime minister to do so in 36 years, informed sources said ...
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Officers shots killed NY student intruder
MINEOLA, N.Y. – A New York college student being held by an armed home intruder was shot and killed by a Nassau County police officer who had responded to a report of a home invasion at an off-campus home, police said Saturday.Andrea Rebello was shot once in the head Friday morning by an officer who opened fire after the masked intruder, Dalton Smith, pointed a gun at the officer while ...
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Indianapolis jail doubts sex study
INDIANAPOLIS – Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nations highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and prisons. The report by the U.S. Department of Justice found that the Marion County Jails inmate-intake center in Indianapolis had a 7.7 percent rate ...
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Cuts imperil Ohio Guard civilian staff
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Mandated budget cuts at the Pentagon may soon affect the Ohio National Guard civilian ranks. About 1,800 civilian employees of the Ohio Guard may be required to take 11 unpaid days off under the Department of Defense budget-cutting plan. The furloughs would run July 8 through Sept. 30, the end of the federal budget year. The Ohio Guards vice chief of the joint staff, ...
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Women in need losing home
CINCINNATI – For more than 100 years, the Anna Louise Inn in downtown Cincinnati has been a safe, serene place that thousands of struggling women came to know as home. But after losing a two-year fight with a Fortune 500 company determined to buy their beautiful, 104-year-old property and turn it into a boutique hotel – even though it wasnt for sale – the women of the Anna ...
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Exhibit at ISU features Bayh family
TERRE HAUTE – A new interactive display that documents the lives and accomplishments of Indianas politically prominent Bayh family has opened at Indiana State University, the western Indiana school linked to several generations of the clan. About 250 Indiana Democrats and others attended Fridays dedication of the Bayh Family Legacy Wall, which toasts the familys accomplishments in ...
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Not all Indiana Powerball tickets lost
Saturday's historic Powerball drawing wasn't sold in Indiana but not all lottery players across the state came away empty handed. A lottery official confirmed one winning ticket matching all six numbers was sold in Florida. Details about the jackpot winner(s) were not immediately announced. ...
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Indianapolis mass transit system no closer
Indianapolis is the 14th largest city in the world, but in the area of mass transit, its ranked 100th in terms of the quality of public transport in the city and surrounding regional areas. This is a state of affairs that lawmakers and city leaders have acknowledged cannot last, but finding the money and the necessary will of leadership to implement the construction of a mass transit system has proven difficult and recent events suggest the project may never find traction.
The value of mass transit on a regional level has never been in question, for twenty years the city has been exploring the idea of an integrated mass transit system incorporating the city’s already existing bus system with light and heavy rail lines, with commuter (heavy) rail systems connecting the city of Indianapolis with the wider region and light rail providing an intra-city, urban transport service. Read more
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