WASHINGTON — The Senate approved legislation Wednesday to lock in $85 billion in broad federal spending cuts and simultaneously avoid a government shutdown next week — and pointedly rejected a call to even reopen White House tours that the Obama administration says had to be canceled because of the cuts.
Keenan Pfotenhauer and Zach Brubaker have followed Ball State’s volleyball team for years which has given a special relationship with the team.
Dwandra Lampkin will perform, for the first time, her one-woman show “The Conviction of Lady Lorraine” based on her experience trying to convince the homeless woman to tell her story.
Coming into the 2013 season, Ball State was hoping that its pitcher, Scott Baker, could take another step forward this season.
Eight former Ball State football players participated in the school’s Pro Day Wednesday, hoping to making an impression on NFL scouts.
Ball State students will get to hear about community involvement straight from the mouth of Muncie’s Mayor Dennis Tyler.
Downtown Muncie is normally quiet, but empty streets will soon be overrun with drag queens, belly dancers and mechanical bull riders at this year’s 12th annual Muncie Gras celebration.
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge conducting a trial to assign fault for the nation's worst offshore oil spill dismissed claims Wednesday against a BP contractor and a company that made a key safety device on the drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, triggering the catastrophe.
PHOENIX — Arizona lawmakers have jumped in to the national debate over the rights of transgender people with a bill being debated Wednesday that would make it illegal for people to use public restrooms not associated with their birth gender.
JERUSALEM — Renewing U.S. support for the difficult "work of generations," President Barack Obama assured Israel on Wednesday that his administration would pursue an elusive Mideast peace that would allow residents of the Jewish state to live in peace and free from the threat of terror.
DENVER — Gov. John Hickenlooper signed bills Wednesday that place new restrictions on firearms and signaled a change for Democrats who traditionally shied away from gun control debate in Colorado - a state with a moderate streak and pioneer tradition of gun ownership and self-reliance.
