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Indy 500 winner Shaws memorabilia to be auctioned
INDIANAPOLIS - A collection of memorabilia from three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Wilbur Shaw is set to be auctioned by the late racer's son. Bill Shaw is parting with his father's racing trophies, a checkered flag ring and about 100 other mementoes during the auction Saturday at the Indiana Landmarks Center. Shaw tells The Indianapolis Star he has pangs about selling the items ...
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Family proud of fallen officers honor
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - It's been nearly 25 years since Master Sergeant Kenneth Hayden died from cancer. This past week, Hayden's name was finally added to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington D.C. Click here to read more about the ceremony, and how Hayden was killed while serving with the Fort Wayne Police Department. "The cause of death was actually ...
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Community gives wounded vet new home
ANDERSON, Ind. (WISH) - About 300 Anderson residents came together Saturday to introduce a wounded veteran and his family to a six-acre plot of land in Edgewood. The land is where volunteers will build a house, which will be paid for through donations. Just a few months ago, 30-year-old Tim Senkowski and his wife were concerned about where they would live when he returned home after a year and a ...
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Front row gathers for official photo
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Sunday morning, the front row headed out on the track for tradition's sake. 2013 pole sitter Ed Carpenter, joined Marco Andretti and Carlos ...
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Video NRL Championships at IUPUI
is being held at the IUPUI Campus Center from 8 a.m. until noon Sunday. The event is free and open to the public. About 50 teams from seven different states are part of this year's NRL Championships at IUPUI. The students competing this weekend won their regional competition and are using their student-designed robot gladiators to collide and create mayhem for a chance to win the top prize. ...
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Aide Obama learned about IRS from news accounts
President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its alumni. The ...
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North Korea fires projectile into eastern waters - NBC40.net
By HYUNG-JIN KIMAssociated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired a projectile into waters off its eastern coast Sunday, a day after launching three short-range missiles in the same area, officials said. North Korea routinely test-launches short-range missiles. But the latest launches came during a period of tentative diplomacy aimed at easing recent tension, including near-daily ...
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Video Erin Murphys family pets
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - 24-Hour News Erin Murphy is on Maternity Leave with a beautiful baby girl. Pet Pals TV's Patty checked in with the whole family. Some people site having a baby as a reason for getting rid of their pets, but not Erin and her family. Erin should be back with us on Daybreak Weekend in ...
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Sunday Bump Day at IMS
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Sunday is Old National Armed Forces Bump Day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The gates open at 7:30 a.m. and the military vehicle display begins. Practice will start at 9 a.m. and qualifying begins at noon. At 9:30 a.m. live music will begin at the Pagoda Plaza Stage. The Kids Zone will open at 11 a.m. Tickets for the day cost $15 and children under 12-years-old get in ...
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Graduate defies odds for degree
HUNTINGTON, Ind. (WANE) - Saturday afternoon Huntington University graduated 317 students. One of those students was Leah Smith. Leah, a 22-year-old graduate, had a different journey across the stage than most of the other 316 students that received their diplomas today. The Auburn native received a life-saving heart transplant at Riley Hospital for Children when she was only 11 days old. At the ...
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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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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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Obama to address Morehouse College commencement
WASHINGTON -; President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its ...
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Medical emergency eyed in crash at Virginia parade
May 18, 2013: Emergency personnel respond to one of the people hit by a car, at right, during the beginning of the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival in Damascus, ...
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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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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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