NEW YORK — Jan. 18 is a date that will live in ignorance, as Wikipedia started a 24-hour blackout of its English-language articles, joining other sites in a protest of pending U.S. legislation aimed at shutting down sites that share pirated movies and other content.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The former director of an Indiana University scholarship program has filed a federal complaint accusing IU of gender and equal pay discrimination.
The words "disgust," "grateful" and "guilty" consumed the thoughts of Ball State students who attended the first university-sponsored Hunger Banquet.
Mailing students educational material about alcohol poisoning awareness for their 21st birthday was among the many ideas suggested by the Student Government Association during their first meeting of the semester.
After three weeks of break during the holidays, students come back to school in January to cold weather, less light and the pressure to keep up New Year's resolutions.
Shane Witmer lined up at the net at the start of Ball State's second set as he awaited the incoming serve.
Michelle Bernard, an MSNBC journalist, said a woman who lived in Berry Farms, a housing development known for being one of the most crime ridden neighborhoods in the Washington D.C. area, asked her a question that put poverty into perspective for her.
NEW YORK — Greed on Wall Street set a new record, federal authorities said Wednesday as they unveiled a massive insider trading case charging a hedge fund co-founder with engineering a trade that earned a staggering $53 million in profits.
Wikipedia will black out the English language version of its website Wednesday to protest anti-piracy legislation under consideration in Congress, the foundation behind the popular community-based online encyclopedia said in a statement Monday night.
In order to perform in a Shakespeare show, much less a one-man Shakespeare show, one would assume to have a lifelong relationship with the Bard.
ROME — The first victim from the Costa Concordia disaster was identified Wednesday — a 38-year-old violinist from Hungary who had been working as an entertainer on the cruise ship.
Ball State was led by several new faces Wednesday night in an impressive 73-52 road victory over Mid-American Conference West Division opponent Central Michigan.
Though Wuhnurth has moved away from Muncie, the brand is still local this weekend at Be Here Now.
CHICAGO — America's obesity epidemic is proving to be as stubborn as those maddening love handles, and shows no sign of reversing course. More than one-third of adults and almost 17 percent of children were obese in 2009-2010, echoing results since 2003, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday.
CAIRO — Hosni Mubarak, on trial for his life, is ferried to court by helicopter from a presidential hospital suite. His sons and co-defendants swagger in wearing designer track suits and no handcuffs. His security chief is treated with near reverence by police in the courtroom.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana House Republicans on Wednesday approved $1,000-a-day fines against boycotting Democratic legislators who gathered in the Statehouse Rotunda with labor union supporters rather than show up to debate a divisive right-to-work bill.
MOSCOW — Russia will look into the possibility that a U.S. radar station could have inadvertently interfered with the failed Mars moon probe that plummeted to Earth, Russian media reported Tuesday, but experts argued that any such claims were far-fetched.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A western Indiana man killed himself by slamming his car into a stone wall, apparently because he was distraught over the death of his girlfriend's 21-month-old son in his care, a coroner said Wednesday.
NEW YORK — A surprisingly strong report on the housing market and the prospect of more cash for the International Monetary Fund to fight off a financial crisis powered stocks Wednesday to their highest close since last summer.
