This time it was Ball State facing a battle. Headed to the ninth inning, Akron held on to an 8-5 lead. A four-run rally led Ball State to the win and a berth in the MAC Championship game on Sunday, where it later fell to Ohio.
The Cardinals added Tayler Persons, a Kokomo native and last season's Atlantic Sun Freshman of the Year, to next season's roster. Persons led Northern Kentucky with 13.1 points and 3.7 assists per game last season.
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MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — Police say an Indiana woman stabbed another woman in the eye with a fork in a dispute over the last rib at a barbecue. The Star Press (http://tspne.ws/1KzvfuJ ) reports a 45-year-old woman was arrested Sunday night on a preliminary charge of criminal recklessness. An affidavit says the woman was attending a barbecue in Muncie when she raised the ire of the host's daughter by "taking the last rib from the kitchen." The affidavit says the woman told police that the daughter accused her of "taking all the food," so she stabbed her in the eye. Police say the woman maintains she acted in self-defense and that the homeowner's daughter was brandishing a knife. The woman was in the Delaware County jail on $5,000 bond as of Tuesday.
With a week to prepare for a staged reading, the writers of the new musical “Mad World” have revised scenes, added new music and even added a new character. In preparation for a staged reading on May 29 at Muncie Civic Theatre, “Mad World” creators Cristian Guerrero, Chandler Patton and Steven Schmidt traveled to Muncie from L.A.
Ball State’s Creative Writing in the Community class wanted to give youth in the Muncie community a chance to write creatively. Over the course of the 15-week class, they did more than that — they gave the kids a “Stomping Ground.”
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — General Motors says it will spend $1.2 billion on new facilities and technology for at the Indiana factory where it builds Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pick-up trucks.
The changes will include a new grandstand, press box, concessions and restrooms, as well as new landscaping. Ball Diamond featured an all-turf surface and new dugouts for this season.
Daniel Brount is a senior creative writing major and writes ‘Do You Copy?’ for the Daily News.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Extra! Extra! Juan Pablo Montoya still had to pay $2 to read all about it. On a gray and blustery Monday morning, the Colombian spent more than two hours on the Yard of Bricks taking the customary Indianapolis 500 winner photos.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Reggie Wayne will receive the key to the city, presented by Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard.
The Indy 500 Festival Princess Program selected three Ball State students as ambassadors for the festival.
INDIANAPOLIS — Juan Pablo Montoya insisted he had the best car in the Team Penske stable — even to his three teammates, who all believed they were legitimate contenders to win the Indianapolis 500. With the same confidence he showed 15 years ago when he routed the field, Montoya sliced his way through the field twice and won his second Indianapolis 500 on Sunday. "This is too much," he said in victory lane, the winner's wreath around his neck and the traditional bottle of milk in his hand.
INDIANAPOLIS — David Letterman has a new No. 1 on his personal Top Ten list of reasons he loves the Indianapolis 500. The freshly retired Letterman was all grins early Sunday as his IndyCar team paid tribute to the former "Late Show" host by putting a gap-toothed, smiling caricature of his face and #thanksdave on driver Oriol Servia's yellow car for the big race. "With everything that's happened, it's the highlight of my career," Letterman said.
Margaritas to-go sound great, but could they really be sold in the Village? Co-owners of Cleo's Bourbon Bar, Ryan Clements and Chris Ellison, are planning to merge with Sir Nachos owner Emanuel Escamilla and open Three Amigos next month. The three entrepreneurs hope to sell mobile versions of their staple drink in sealed Ball jars. Brandon Thomas, Indiana excise police public information officer, said many establishments sell carry out margaritas.
#ThanksDave trends internationally ahead of Letterman's final episode. [View the story "#ThanksDave trends internationally ahead of Letterman's final episode" on Storify]
David Letterman helped form the student radio station WAGO. He wrote for the stations show, "Uncle Gimpy."
This past year, 18 Ball State students fundraised money for brigades to Nicaragua and Panama. Two brigades spent one week building sanitary infrastructures and sustainable agricultural projects in underdeveloped communities.
GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — More than 6,000 gallons of oil had been raked, skimmed and vacuumed from a spill that stretched across 9 miles of California coast in a cleanup effort that is now going 24 hours a day, officials said, but that's some of the sticky, stinking goo that escaped from a broken pipeline. Investigators took stock of the scope of the spill on Wednesday a day after the pipeline break, finding that up to 105,000 gallons may have leaked out, and up to a fifth of that amount — 21,000 gallons — reached the sea, according to estimates. Federal regulators were investigating the leak as workers in protective suits raked and shoveled the black sludge off the beaches, and boats towed booms into place to corral the two slicks off the Santa Barbara coast. The chief executive of the company that runs the pipeline, Plains All American Pipeline LP, was at the site of the spill Wednesday and apologized for it. "We deeply, deeply regret that this incident has occured at all," Chairman and CEO Greg L.
While saying that it is still a music company at heart, Spotify says it is expanding its lineup to include podcasts, news radio and video streaming.
