Slavery didn’t just end in the Civil War — it’s alive and well with 30 million people worldwide being a part of the slave trade.
After splitting a pair of games at the South Point Shootout in Las Vegas, the Ball State women’s basketball team holds a 2-4 record on the season.
Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha dropped in Saturday at Washington’s Politics and Prose bookstore and purchased what he said was a “long list” of books that included “The Kite Runner,” “Harold and the Purple Crayon” and “The Sports Gene.”
A new legislature targeting “pill mills,” which supply pills to people hooked on prescription medications, will limit the amount of prescription pills doctors are allowed to prescribe. The legislation will go into effect this month. Before prescribing drugs, doctors will have to do more screening on patients and track the prescriptions they give out with a program called INSPECT. Patients might have to submit to drug tests before and during their prescription.
NEW YORK — A New York City commuter train rounding a riverside curve derailed Sunday, killing four people and injuring more than 60 in a crash that threw passengers from the toppling cars and left a snaking chain of twisted wreckage just inches from the water. Some of the roughly 150 passengers on the early morning Metro-North train from Poughkeepsie to Manhattan were jolted from sleep around 7:20 a.m. to screams and the frightening sensation of their compartment rolling over on a bend in the Bronx where the Hudson and Harlem rivers meet. When the motion stopped, four or five of the seven cars had lurched off the rails. It was the latest accident in a troubled year for the nation’s second-biggest commuter railroad, which had never experienced a passenger death in an accident in its 31-year-history.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A former Indianapolis police officer who killed a man and seriously injured two others when he was driving drunk and crashed his police cruiser into two motorcycles stopped at a traffic light was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison. David Bisard was convicted last month on nine counts, the most serious of which was driving with a blood-alcohol content above 0.15 percent while in a fatal accident. The legal limit in Indiana is 0.08.
The U.S. State Department estimates that 27 million people around the world are in slavery today. At Ball State, International Justice Mission tried to raise awareness for this little known statistic, said vice president Stephanie Metzger, because many people assume slavery stopped after the Civil War. The group is a Christian human rights organization that focuses on human trafficking.
TODAY Bead for Life The Social Justice League will sell beaded jewelry made from recycled paper with proceeds going to women in Uganda, who hand made the jewelry.
The Ball State women’s basketball team fell to 1-4 on the season with a 51-67 loss against Auburn in the South Point Shootout in Las Vegas. The team shot just 31.9 percent from the floor compared to Auburn’s 46.4 percent. Seniors Katie Murphy and Brandy Woody were a combined 0-10 on field goals.
The Ball State women’s basketball team fell to 1-4 on the season with a 51-67 loss against Auburn in the South Point Shootout in Las Vegas. The team shot just 31.9 percent from the floor compared to Auburn’s 46.4 percent. Seniors Katie Murphy and Brandy Woody were a combined 0-10 on field goals.
The Ball State women’s basketball team fell to 1-4 on the season with a 51-67 loss against Auburn in the South Point Shootout in Las Vegas. The team shot just 31.9 percent from the floor compared to Auburn’s 46.4 percent. Seniors Katie Murphy and Brandy Woody were a combined 0-10 on field goals.
Keith Wenning remembers the first game he played at Scheumann Stadium. It was Ball State’s season opener against Southeast Missouri his freshman year, but his name didn’t appear in the final box score. “I went in with a couple minutes left and handed the ball off about three or four times,” Wenning said following Ball State’s 55-14 thumping over Miami.
10-win team With the win, the 2013 Ball State team becomes only the third team in program history to win at least 10 games in a season.
First Quarter update Donning its black uniforms on Black Friday, Ball State easily marched down field on its opening drive and scored on a 10-yard pass from quarterback Keith Wenning to wide receiver Jamill Smith.
Allisyn Rees, a sophomore at Ball State, has been working in the retail industry for 4-5 years. For Rees, Thanksgiving means more than just the turkey, pumpkin pie and the time with family.
When senior tight end Zane Fakes runs out of the tunnel of Scheumann Stadium for the final time of his Ball State career this Friday, he won’t be thinking of the game he’s about to play. “[I’ll be thinking of] everything since I’ve been here,” Fakes said.
For Mallory Miles and Haley Richter, the 2013-14 swimming campaign has brought with it a new challenge that the two seniors have dove headfirst into. Miles and Richter were named co-captains for their final season in swimming and diving at Ball State.
A steel cage enclosed wrestling icons Mick “Mankind” Foley and “The Undertaker” in a King of the Ring professional wrestling match. Laughter House Five will host Foley as “The Hardcore Legend” in his Tales from Wrestling Past tour Sunday in the Valhalla Room in downtown Muncie.
A Ball State student activism group has joined a national movement to start conversations on campus about ceasing university investment in fossil fuels.
About 106,000 people have signed up for the Affordable Care Act since exchanges opened on Oct. 1, far below the Obama administration’s expectations.
