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Muncie Downtown looking for event help

The Muncie Downtown Development Partnership and the Horizon Convention Center are looking for Ball State student volunteers to help with the first annual Light up Downtown "Kick-Off Celebration," which is on Nov. 26.


U.S. curbs work program for foreign college students

JACKSON, Miss. — The State Department put a freeze Monday on expansion of a program that lines up summer jobs in the U.S. for foreign college students, citing persistent complaints about young people getting ripped off and exploited.



MEN'S BASKETBALL: Ball State takes exhibition game 72-47 over Taylor

Ball State's Jauwan Scaife drove left, spun and hit a pull-up jumper from just outside the lane. That shot scored the first points of the game, but from the beginning, it seemed Taylor University couldn't match the junior guard's athleticism on the perimeter.


East Indiana county consider helping Ivy Tech expansion

NEW CASTLE, Ind. — Officials in an eastern Indiana county are considering whether to direct tax money toward a project to buy and renovate an old car dealership into a new classroom site for fast-growing Ivy Tech Community College.


Quarter-mile-wide asteroid coming close to Earth

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An asteroid bigger than an aircraft carrier will dart between the Earth and moon Tuesday — the closest encounter by such a huge rock in 35 years.



Students explain their greatest fears

Phobias affect an estimated 19.2 million adult Americans, as cited by the National Institute of Mental Health. Students find themselves part of the statistic through their own experiences with this psychological phenomenon.



Jobs are the dominate issues for mayoral election

The municipal elections tomorrow pit Republican Mayor Sharon McShurley against her Democratic challenger, State Representative Dennis Tyler. However, it's the state of job growth in Muncie that will likely bring many of the voters to the polls. 


Big quake follows increase in Oklahoma rumblings

SPARKS, Okla. — Clouds of dust belched from the corners of almost every room in Joe Reneau's house as the biggest earthquake in Oklahoma history rocked the two-story building.


OUR VIEW: Home stretch

For some, the finish line is in sight. For others, that finish line is a wall.


Initial agreement reached in Greece power-sharing

ATHENS, Greece — Greece's embattled prime minister and main opposition leader agreed Sunday to form an interim government to ensure the country's new European debt deal and oversee early elections.