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Friday's Homecoming Bed Race intoduces new division

The Homecoming Steering Committee has been planning for the 33rd annual Homecoming Bed Race since March. Road closures, barricades and a noise ordinance was all in order through the University Police Department for the event.


Broad Ripple Music Fest focuses on local music with 96 bands

A former Ball State student spent the past four months preparing for this weekend. As first-time director of Broad Ripple Music Fest, Jack Shepler will watch countless hours of work come to fruition as Indianapolis' north-side hang out transforms into a multi-genre live music hub Saturday. The festival will feature 96 bands and DJs playing 15 stages at 11 venues along the Broad Ripple Avenue strip.




Ball State marks 75 years of tradition at Homecoming parade

Paper mache, brightly colored tissue paper, fringe, pom poms, garland and other items will soon travel down the streets of Muncie and Ball State. The annual Ball State Homecoming Parade is back, one of the university's longest running traditions, which started in 1939.


Student organizations to perform at Air Jam

Various campus groups and organizations will take the stage for four minutes and show off dance routines and lip-syncing talents on the Air Jam stage tonight.



Sandusky gets at least 30 years, denies wrongdoing

BELLEFONTE, Pa. - In what sounded at times like a locker room pep talk, Jerry Sandusky rambled in his red prison suit about being the underdog in the fourth quarter, about forgiveness, about dogs and about the movie "Seabiscuit." -á


Dozens protest shooting of naked Alabama student

MOBILE, Ala. - Dozens of students gathered at the site of a deadly campus shooting on Wednesday to protest the killing of a naked, unarmed student by a University of South Alabama police officer.


McCaskill hits Akin with ads featuring raped women

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill took aim Wednesday at Republican challenger Todd Akin with a new series of TV ads featuring rape survivors outraged by Akin's remark about "legitimate rape" and his opposition to emergency contraception.