ANDERSON — Twenty times this year, Anderson police dispatchers have sent officers to Club 765, according to police records.
ANDERSON — With an approaching deadline to name its new member, the board of Anderson Community Schools will likely not have time to conduct public interviews with applicants, the board’s president said.
ANDERSON — Anderson is going, and driving, green.
Mayor Kris Ockomon will start efforts to be more environment-friendly with a newly acquired Global Electric Motorcar, Chrysler’s battery-electric brand of low-speed vehicles.
Betty J. Ross
CARMEL — Former Elwood resident Betty Jean Ross, 89, Carmel, died May 14, 2008, at Maple Park Village in Westfield.
Jennie Houser
Jennie Houser, 86, Anderson, died May 14, 2008, at Saint John’s Medical Center.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Office of Tourism Development has launched a new Web site to promote three in-state activities.
GREENSBURG, Ind. — The city will hire six additional firefighters to cover the new Honda plant — at the company’s expense.
MARKLE, Ind. (AP) — A 6-year-old northeastern Indiana boy has died after being thrown from an all-terrain vehicle.
NOBLESVILLE — Simon Property Group, Inc. (NYSE:SPG), the country’s largest owner, developer and manager of high quality retail real estate and Gershman Brown Crowley, Inc. announced more exciting retail and restaurant openings in time for Memorial Day at their joint project, Hamilton Town Center.
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles has created a new online tool that allows customers to obtain 10 different services through the Internet.
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Supreme Court overruled a judge who placed a middle school student on probation for posting an expletive-laden entry on MySpace criticizing her principal over school policy on body piercings.
PHILADELPHIA — Some of the fattest people in America are among the poorest.
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WASHINGTON — For nearly three in 10 households, don’t even bother trying to call them on a landline phone. They either only have a cell phone or seldom if ever take calls on their traditional phone.
DEARBORN, Mich. — Jennifer Sharpe knows how to sell Girl Scout cookies. She sold them to friends. She sold them to strangers. She even convinced her orthodontist to buy the popular sweet treats.
LOS ANGELES — More U.S. homeowners fell behind on mortgage payments last month, driving the number of homes facing foreclosure up 65 percent versus the same month last year and contributing to a deepening slide in home values, a research company said Tuesday.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Larry Bird filed a lawsuit alleging a couple who bought his former home in southern Indiana are improperly using his name to promote a bed-and-breakfast.
MUNCIE, Ind. — A gay Ball State University student said he and his friends were attacked because of their sexuality, leaving him with a scratched cornea, a swollen eye, cuts and bruises.
Keep the umbrellas handy today and Thursday. The best chance for steady rain will be early today. Expect mostly cloudy skies this afternoon with the chance for a few thundershowers. Highs today are forecast in the upper 60s. The front brining rain will slow just to our south. As another wave develops along the front, a few more showers are possible on Thursday. Temperatures will stay in the 60s for the next few days. This is cool for this time of year.
Today, the family of Spc. Timothy K. Israel will hold a funeral for the Iraq war veteran who hanged himself in a holding cell at the Elwood Police Department. Hot dog restaurant Taste of Chicago holds a grand opening and the murder trial of Jesse Lee Pitts continues.
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ANDERSON — County officials are looking for public input on the possible implementation of a wheel tax.
INGALLS — An online picture of his girlfriend’s pose with a hose is an example of the horseplay that cost the town fire chief his job, a council member said.
ANDERSON — The city Parks and Recreation Department has rehired a former employee who was fired for smoking marijuana on the job.
ANDERSON — Executive Chef Coley Miller wants visitors to Hoosier Park’s new restaurants to try his jambalaya and crab cakes, which are both tasty and tempting.
ANDERSON — Plastic still clung to most of the slot machines, but the expanded Hoosier Park casino was ready for previewing Tuesday.
ANDERSON -- A little over a month after Marquis A. Foard was released from prison for committing armed robbery, he’s back behind bars, accused of shooting two people early Sunday during a dispute at an Anderson nightclub.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of his worst defeats of the campaign yet scarcely slowing his march toward the Democratic presidential nomination.
ANDERSON -- The murder trial of a man accused of beating a 14-year-old Anderson High School freshman to death in September is expected to start in earnest Wednesday after jury selection was completed Tuesday.
Health Centers receive $1.7 million toward expansion project
ANDERSON — The Madison County Community Health Centers received a $1.75 million boost toward expanding its Elwood and Anderson facilities and doubling the number of patients it serves.
ANDERSON — Officials at Hoosier Park said Tuesday that the expanded gambling site would offer the latest technology in casino gambling.
Dozens of high school seniors were honored Tuesday by area chambers of commerce for graduating in the top 10 percent of their class.
ANDERSON — Civic leaders from across Madison County met at the Flagship Enterprise Center Tuesday evening to learn how recent changes to Indiana’s tax code will impact funding.
ANDERSON — The single-floor casino at Hoosier Park makes security simpler, said Clint McKenzie, the facility’s operations manager.
GARY, Ind. (AP) — Gary Mayor Rudy Clay and others from the city who are on a trip to China are unharmed following the severe earthquake that hit the country.
Frankton native, ex-model killed in fire
ANDERSON — A Frankton native and former fashion model died Sunday in an apartment fire in Vincennes.
Former teacher, historian Lillie Givens Manuel dies
ANDERSON — Lillie (Vontress) Givens Manuel will be remembered for her perseverance and her love for Anderson’s history.
LOS ANGELES — James Garner’s publicist says the veteran TV and film star has been hospitalized in Los Angeles after suffering a minor stroke at his home last week.
The Youth Department of Sherman Street Church of God will sponsor a weekend-long youth conference titled “Project Hope: Engaging a Generation” which will take place Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Janet L. Miller
Janet L. Miller, 76, Anderson, died May 13, 2008, at Saint John’s Medical Center.
TAMPA, Fla. — Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him a reputation as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has died, his gallery representative said Tuesday. He was 82.
Annika Sorenstam will retire after the season, ending an LPGA Tour career in which she has won 72 tournaments to date and delivered a defining moment when she teed it up against the men on the PGA Tour.
WASHINGTON — The Senate, in a direct challenge to President Bush, voted Tuesday to temporarily halt the shipment of thousands of barrels of oil a day into the government’s emergency reserve.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Relentless wildfires burned Tuesday morning across Florida’s Atlantic coast, taxing firefighters and overwhelming residents trying to save their homes with garden hoses.
HAMMOND, Ind. — A lawyer for a man scheduled to die by lethal injection in two weeks has filed a motion for a stay of execution, saying she needs more time to file an appeal.
The puppy dogs of America have aged seven or eight years since the exhaustingly long Democratic primary opened for business, and in that time a niche art form has blossomed in the black diaspora: the Barack Obama Praise Song.
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WASHINGTON — Consumers, battling soaring gasoline prices and a slumping economy, cut back further on their spending in April.
NEW YORK — Wall Street headed for a lower opening Tuesday, with investors hesitant ahead of reports expected to show that consumers curtailed their spending amid rising food and energy prices.
YANGON, Myanmar — The United Nations said Tuesday that only a tiny portion of international aid needed for Myanmar’s cyclone victims is making it into the country, amid reports that the military regime is hoarding good-quality foreign aid for itself and doling out rotten food.
INDIANAPOLIS — The number of fatal farm accidents in Indiana tripled last year following six years of decline, according to a new report.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Indianapolis 500 is an attractive target for terrorists, federal authorities said, but there has been no credible or specific threat aimed at the Memorial Day weekend race.
ELWOOD — Funeral arrangements and visitation have been set for an Iraq War veteran who authorities say hanged himself inside a holding cell at the Elwood Police Department on Friday.
ANDERSON — An Anderson man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday for driving drunk and causing a crash that left two men dead in August.
INGALLS — A firefighter went outside, got his fire equipment and tossed it to the sidewalk after listening to the Town Council fire his chief.
A cool start Tuesday will give way to a warmer afternoon. Morning temperatures will be in the 40s, but highs this afternoon are forecast in the low- to mid-70s. Take advantage of the dry weather today, because chances of rain are forecast for both Wednesday and Thursday. With more clouds, scattered showers and storms, highs will fall to the 60s.
Today, Hoosier Park opens its doors to the media for a first glance at the new casino project set to open in June. Meanwhile, local officials will gather at the Flagship Education Center for a workshop on coping with property tax reform and the murder trial of Jesse Lee Pitts is set to begin Wednesday.
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CHENGDU, China (AP) — A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing about 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country’s worst quake in three decades.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Americans facing rising gasoline and diesel prices are cycling about, saddling up, singing out and, sometimes, resorting to violent symbolism.
ALEXANDRIA — Alexandria Elementary School principal Dick Sizelove is leaving his post to return to teaching.
ANDERSON — Lillie Givens Manuel, 92, died May 12, 2008, at the Monticello House, following an extended illness.
ELWOOD — An estimated $12.4 million will be poured into Indiana 37 in Elwood over the next 90 days.
ANDERSON — A shooting suspect went to the Anderson police station Monday because he had heard detectives were looking for him.
INDIANAPOLIS — Anderson resident Gregory Scott is the new leader of Ivy Tech’s statewide diversity initiatives.
Three local high school students recently received Charles H. and Hazel Dickmann Youth Community Service Awards, given by the Anderson Rotary Club.
INDIANAPOLIS — Construction at Hoosier Park continues to be on time and on budget, Rick Moore, general manager of racing at Hoosier Park, reported to the Indiana Horse Racing Commission on Monday.
DES MOINES, Iowa — A college student whose friend was being questioned in a hit and run found himself charged with assaulting an officer with a curious choice of weapons: M&Ms.
CHONGQING, China — A massive earthquake struck central China on Monday, killing more than 8,500 people, trapping nearly 900 students under the rubble of their school and spilling ammonia from a chemical plant, state media reported.
INDIANAPOLIS — New traffic and sidewalk restrictions are being put in place near the RCA Dome so that demolition work can begin.
Gas prices from around the area for Monday, May 12.
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GARY, Ind. — A semitrailer jackknifed and caught fire on the Indiana Toll Road in Gary, closing westbound lanes.
MALABAR, Fla. — Wildfires in central Florida have forced hundreds of residents to evacuate their homes.
NEW YORK— U.S. stocks headed for a moderately higher open Monday as oil prices ticked lower and the dollar advanced.
BEIJING — State media report that a powerful earthquake has buried nearly 900 students in China’s Sichuan province.
WASHINGTON — An extra penny for your thoughts.
Mailing a letter costs a penny more this week, with the price of a first-class stamp rising to 42 cents Monday.
Colder air and rain will gradually move out for today and highs will get back into the low- to mid-60s. Temperatures will continue to warm up through Wednesday, when the next weather system arrives. After rain on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, conditions should stay dru until rain returns next weekend. Temperatures look to cool off again next weekend.
Today, Indiana 37 will close today between Indiana 28 and Indiana 26 as part of the Major Moves project with a ground-breaking at 1:30 p.m. Plus, a trio of local legislators are being considered as lieutenant governor candidates on Jill Long-Thompson’s ticket and the Indiana Horse Racing Commission is set to meet ahead of the June opening of Hoosier Park.
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UTAPAO, Thailand (AP) — The United States has launched its first relief airlift to Myanmar for last week’s cyclone victims.
MALABAR, Fla. (AP) — Brush fires forced residents to flee more than 500 homes in central Florida on Sunday and closed a major interstate, authorities said.
ANDERSON — The city's Yard & Garden Recycling Center is now open and accepting clean leaves and grass — no paper, no bottles, no cans — at no charge.
The Chemical People Task Force of Madison County has awarded Madison County Drug-Free Community Funds for the 2008 program year.
Wind fanned the flames Sunday evening as firefighters from five departments battled a house fire at 1105 E. 400N in Richland Township.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Thunderstorms that swept through Indiana early Sunday morning cut off power to nearly 38,000 Duke Energy customers.
ANDERSON — A local man survived a gunshot to the head following a bar fight on the city’s west side early Sunday. A stray bullet struck an innocent bystander during the scuffle.
MARKLEVILLE — Strong winds blasted southeastern Madison County Sunday morning while tearing up trees and flipping over a trailer.
FAIRMOUNT — Jan Helfen is a fan of the Fairmount Public Library and has something to celebrate these days. Plans are under way to move the library to a larger, modern space.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say two children died in an Indianapolis house fire that left their mother and brother hospitalized.
ANDERSON — Had Carl Erskine only been a Major League pitcher, that surely would have been enough to captivate this community.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — None of the tickets sold for Saturday’s Hoosier Lotto game matched all six numbers drawn, so the jackpot grows to an estimated $3 million for Wednesday’s drawing.
ALEXANDRIA — A new tourist attraction in Alexandria could attract 1,000 people a day, according to Mayor Jack Woods.
