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Gingrich to end presidential campaign next week

WASHINGTON - Newt Gingrich began taking steps Wednesday to shut down his debt-laden White House bid, setting the stage to endorse one-time rival Mitt Romney next week and rally Republicans behind their apparent nominee.


Judge refuses to dismiss GI's WikiLeaks case

FORT MEADE, Maryland - A military judge refused on Wednesday to throw out the case against an Army private accused of providing reams of sensitive documents to WikiLeaks in the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history.


Finding a common ground

A new building set for McKinley Avenue is estimated to cost $25 million, but the money won't come from tuition, the university said Wednesday.



Marine discharged for Obama Facebook criticism

SAN DIEGO - A sergeant will be discharged for criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook in a case that called into question the Pentagon's policies about social media and its limits on the speech of active duty military personnel, the Marine Corps said Wednesday.


SungMin Lim

CHICAGO (AP) - Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn gave an emotional speech Wednesday urging the world community to help Haiti as he accepted an award from a gathering of Nobel Peace Prize laureates for his humanitarian work in the earthquake-ravaged country.



APERTURE: Looking back

As my last Finals Week approaches, I get to sit back and take a look at my collegiate career. I'm sure you've all heard on several occasions the hackneyed phrase, "College is the best years of your life." So was it?


MEN'S VOLLEYBALL: Ball State season ends with loss to Ohio State

It was quick, but not necessarily painless. In what seemed to pass with only a few serves and bounces of a volleyball, Ohio State easily swept the Ball State men's volleyball team 3-0 (25-14, 25-18, 25-15) in St. John Arena on Wednesday night.


Giving for greenery

Just past Ball Gymnasium on the southwest end of campus, Christy Woods looms in the wake of spring.



Pakistan tests missile days after India's launch

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan successfully launched an upgraded ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead Wednesday, days after its neighbor and archenemy India conducted its own missile test, the Pakistani military said.


Feds make 1st arrest in BP oil spill case

NEW ORLEANS - A BP engineer intentionally deleted more than 300 text messages that said the company's efforts to control the Gulf of Mexico oil spill were failing, and that the amount of oil leaking was far more than what the company reported, the Justice Department said Tuesday.


Administration to discuss future of smoking areas

Administration will soon review the university's smoking policies, an evaluation which could result in the addition, relocation or elimination of some or all of Ball State's designated smoking areas.