Max Norris, Ball State women's tennis coach, has announced the addition of Carmen Blanco for the 2015-16 season.
VENTURA, Calif. (AP) â A plane registered to Oscar-winning "Titanic" composer James Horner has crashed in Southern California, but the identity of the one person who died has not been released. Jay Cooper, an attorney for Horner, said the plane was one of several owned by the 61-year-old composer, and that no one has heard from him since the crash. "It was his plane and if he wasn't in it, he would've called," Cooper said Monday night. The Associated Press has not confirmed Horner's death. The Hollywood Reporter cited Sylvia Patrycja, who it says is identified on Horner's film music page as his assistant in confirming his death.
CHICAGO (AP) — Strong winds that swept across parts of northern Illinois spawned several possible tornadoes, severely damaged homes and forced first responders to pull survivors from the basements of homes, officials said Tuesday. The storm was moving east, threatening to bring similar weather to northern Indiana and parts of Michigan, where strong winds also damaged homes, prompted rescues and knocked out power to thousands of people late Monday and early Tuesday. Particularly hard hit was a private camping resort in Sublette, an Illinois community about 100 miles west of Chicago.
BOSTON (AP) — The creator of the pink plastic lawn flamingo, the ultimate symbol of American lawn kitsch, has died.
Governor Mike Pence appointed Dustin Meeks to a two-year term as the Ball State student trustee on Monday.
The blast, powered by at least 40 sticks of dynamite, ripped into the stillness before dawn. A few more hours and Sunday school classrooms at The Temple on Atlanta's Peachtree Street would have been filled with 600 children.
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — The city of Muncie is looking for someone to take over responsibility for upkeep of a median designed to ensure safe passage for pedestrians and bicyclists and improve the appearance of a commercial strip. The perennial plants on the McGalliard Road island have been overtaken by weeds after the landscape company that had maintained the site for more than a decade stopped doing so due to what one official calls a "miscommunication." Angie Pool, CEO of Cardinal Greenways, told The Star Press (http://tspne.ws/1L5ZNn2 ) that the company that had donated its services to maintain the island had decided to stop doing so.
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — It's the sweetest news you'll read all day: There's a new candy store on Muncie's northwest side. Chocolate Paradise opened earlier this spring with big dreams and sweet ideas, including a goal of being the go-to place in town to find top-tier chocolates. Owned by Chris Whittenburg, a Muncie native now living in Texas, Chocolate Paradise offers a variety of homemade goods, including caramels and truffles, both of which are made by store employees.
Of the 35 women competing to be Miss Indiana, one-fifth are Ball State students or alumna. Ball State has more women competing in 2015's Miss Indiana Scholarship Pageant than any other Indiana school. [View the story "Seven Ball State students compete in Miss Indiana Pagaent" on Storify]
Police have identified the suspect in a fatal shooting that killed nine people at a historic black church in downtown Charleston as 21-year-old Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina. An intense manhunt is underway for Roof.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — In a sweeping environmental manifesto aimed at spurring concrete action, Pope Francis called Thursday for a bold cultural revolution to correct what he described as a "structurally perverse" economic system where the rich exploit the poor, turning Earth into an "immense pile of filth." Francis framed climate change as an urgent moral issue to address in his eagerly anticipated encyclical, blaming global warming on an unfair, fossil fuel-based industrial model that harms the poor most. Citing Scripture, his predecessors and bishops from around the world, the pope urged people of every faith and even no faith to undergo an awakening to save God's creation for future generations. The document released Thursday was a stinging indictment of big business and climate doubters alike, aimed at spurring courageous changes at U.N.
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — An intense manhunt was under way Thursday for a young white man who joined a prayer meeting and then opened fire inside a historic black church in downtown Charleston, killing nine people, including the pastor, in what authorities called a hate crime. The shooter remained at large Thursday morning and police released photographs from surveillance video of a suspect and a dark colored sedan that may have been the getaway vehicle. "This is a very dangerous individual," Police Chief Greg Mullen said. The suspect attended the meeting at the church Wednesday night and stayed for nearly an hour before the deaths, Mullen said. The victims were six females and three males, Mullen said Thursday morning.
Ball State 1972 graduate Gary Graham is a former Daily News editor and is currently editor at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane. The DN talked to him on Tuesday about the Rachel Dolezal story and how it has unfolded.
Emily Griffis is a senior literature and creative writing major and writes DIYs for The Daily News.
The steps to the library are being repaired for the first time in “a number of years,” according to assistant dean for public services Suzanne Rice.
The National Forensics Association has decided to host its National Tournament at Ball State after pulling the event from campus when state legislators passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act last March. The 2016 event will bring around 1,200 students and faculty members from across the country to campus and rake in anywhere between $1 and $2 million for the Muncie community, Director of Individual Events, Mary Moore, said.
Renovations are continuing at Ball Diamond and the Softball Field at the First Merchants Ballpark Complex with the addition of the grandstand at the baseball field and new dugouts at the softball diamond.
Whitford said the rules were well-thought out and will help move the game in a good direction. He praised shortening the shot clock to 30 seconds, and said they will help college basketball become more consistent with the NBA and the International game.
Sophomore Jarett Rindfleisch was honored for his performance in the 2015 season, as he was named to the American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings All-Mideast Region First Team.
The Ball State men's basketball summer day camp, offered to boys in grades second through eighth, is meant to help young players improve on their skills and technique.
