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VIDEO: Polar Plunge continues despite pool collapse

The annual fundraiser for Special Olympics Indiana took an interesting twist this year. When the pool broke early in the event, people started to slide through the mud and water on the ground.



Jittery investors watch Greece, US economic data

NEW YORK — For the past six weeks, Wall Street traders have optimistically pushed the Dow Jones industrial average up nearly 4.8 percent on a belief that the U.S. economic recovery is finally gaining momentum.


Indiana withholds results of drug lab retesting

INDIANAPOLIS — Results of about 500 blood samples that were retested as part of a sweeping probe of drug testing problems at the state toxicology lab aren't being made public even though they've been shared with prosecutors.



Investigators seek answers to Houston's death

LOS ANGELES — Investigators worked Sunday to piece together what killed Whitney Houston as the music industry's biggest names prepared for a Grammy Awards show that will be undoubtedly feel as much like a memorial as a celebration.



Polar Plunge takes a spill

A dip in the pool became a roll in the mud at the Polar Plunge on Saturday after a wall of the event's small pool burst.



Many Indiana House Democrats calling it quits

INDIANAPOLIS — More than quarter of the Indiana House Democrats who unsuccessfully fought passage of the state's new right-to-work law won't try for re-election this year.


Whitney Houston, superstar of records, films, dies

LOS ANGELES — Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice was ravaged by drug use and her regal image was ruined by erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died Saturday. She was 48