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Fraternities adapt to empty houses

From August until May, Riverside Avenue is usually an area of bustling activity, but once Finals Week draws to a close and thousands of students head home for the summer months, it looks just as deserted as the rest of campus. 


SLIDESHOW: Squirrelstock 2

Indie music was throbbing from the basement of Be Here Now Saturday night at the bar's biggest concert of the summer.



'Horrific' Ariz. fire blankets towns in smoky fog

TUCSON, Ariz. — A 225-square-mile blaze that has grown into the third-largest in Arizona's history covered a mountain vacation town in a smoky fog Sunday, as wind blew smoke from the burning pine forest well into nearby New Mexico and Colorado.


Abortion showdown could cost Indiana $4.3 billion

INDIANAPOLIS — A looming showdown over Indiana's new law that cuts funding for the Planned Parenthood organization may test how far Republican-led states are willing to go in pressing their tough new anti-abortion agendas.



Cellphone cancer warning falls lightly on U.S. ears

NEW YORK — News last week that an arm of the World Health Organization said cellphones might raise the risk of brain cancer has been greeted by Americans mostly with a shrug of the shoulder — one that's pinning a cellphone to the ear.



Storms leave 1 dead, more than 35K blacked out

INDIANAPOLIS — Severe weather moving across central Indiana has left one person dead, more than 35,000 utility customers without power and much of the state under a thunderstorm watch.


Colleges hike tuition as state reduces funding

INDIANAPOLIS — There's a simple math lesson that supporters of Indiana's public universities want state lawmakers to learn: If they continue to reduce state funding for higher education, colleges will keep raising tuition and fees.