The holiday shopping season got off to a strong start on Black Friday, with retail sales up 7 percent over last year, according to the most recent survey. Now stores just have to keep buyers coming back without the promise of door-buster savings.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The discoveries of two new bodies could bring to three the death toll from a Craigslist ad that police said lured victims into a lethal robbery scheme.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A northeast Indiana science center's annual fundraiser drew a bigger and younger crowd after it eschewed printed save-the-date cards and invitations and relied instead on Facebook and Twitter to get the word out, the marketing director said.
Little time was wasted by Ball State in securing a satisfying win to end its regular season schedule Saturday night.
ASHLAND, Oregon — In this storybook town, murder is commonplace on the stages of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where sword fights are carefully choreographed entertainment, and the blood that spurts is fake.
For the first six and a half minutes of Friday's game, Keith Wenning and the rest of Ball State's offense stood on the sideline. They watched as Toledo plodded down the field, going 80 yards in 15 plays for a touchdown.
For senior captains Briggs Orsbon, Sean Baker and 15 other seniors on the Ball State football team, Friday's 45-28 loss to Toledo was the last game they will play at Scheumann Stadium.
A semi-finals loss in the Mid-American Conference Tournament left Ball State's chances of making the NCAA Tournament looking bleak and discouraging.
Ball State is ready to focus on Friday's game against Toledo and hope that a victory is enough to prove its case to the bowl executives that now control its fate.
A promising regular season for Ball State came to a disappointing end Friday afternoon with a 45-28 loss to Toledo.
A touchdown early in the third quarter and a goal line stand near the end helped Toledo extend its lead at Ball State to 28-7 entering the fourth quarter.
Using conversions twice on third down and once on fourth down, Toledo scored a touchdown on its opening drive and leads Ball State 7-0 after the first quarter.
Jahwan Edward's 11th touchdown run of the year put Ball State on the scoreboard in the second quarter against Toledo, but the Cardinals trail 21-7 going into halftime.
CHICAGO — Undeterred by costlier gas and airfare, millions of Americans set out Wednesday to see friends and family in what is expected to be the nation's busiest Thanksgiving weekend since the financial meltdown more than three years ago.
NEW YORK — Retailers awaiting the arrival of Black Friday are on the edge. How well they do during the biggest shopping season of the year will have lasting consequences not just on them, but the still-fragile economic recovery.
In the first half of last Friday's game against Indiana State, Ball State was lucky if one pass went untouched by a Sycamore defender.
NEW YORK — During the first two months of the nationwide Occupy protests, the movement that is demanding more out of the wealthiest Americans cost local taxpayers at least $13 million in police overtime and other municipal services, according to a survey by The Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's status as a free man could change if more accusers surface and police file new charges, as his lawyer fears.
