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Common sense might not keep Hoosiers from being carded

INDIANAPOLIS — A 2010 Indiana law that required everyone buying carryout alcohol to show identification, regardless of age, brought lawmakers piles of email criticism and plenty of ridicule from senior citizens frustrated about showing identification to buy a six-pack.


Today is deadline for FAFSA corrections

Students who turned in their Free Application for Federal Student Aid form this year have until the end of the day to make any necessary corrections.



Purdue reviews plagiarism charge against educator

GARY, Ind. — Purdue University is reviewing allegations that a member of the Indiana State Board of Education who also is the chief administrative officer of a Gary charter school plagiarized portions of her doctoral dissertation.


BASEBALL: Cardinals swept by Huskies

Whatever hopes Ball State (13-34, 9-14) had of reaching the Mid-American Conference Tournament evaporated as it fell victim to an 18-8 blowout by Northern Illinois.



Ind. Planned Parenthood extends imperiled services

INDIANAPOLIS — A national wave of donor support for Planned Parenthood of Indiana over a law taking away much of its public funding will allow it to cover the health care costs of current Medicaid patients for at least another week, the organization said Friday.


OUR VIEW: Moving money

They're moving money on a spreadsheet. The bigger issue is the extra money tacked on for architecture, nursing, business and music students.


As water creeps closer, residents warned: Get out

KROTZ SPRINGS, La. — Deputies warned people Sunday to get out as Mississippi River water gushing from a floodgate for the first time in four decades crept ever closer to communities in Louisiana Cajun country, slowly filling a river basin like a giant bathtub.


Professor lets city life teach class

The subway replaced shuttle buses, the Empire State Building took the place of Schafer Tower, and residence halls were swapped for the Big Apple Hostel as a group of 18 students from the Honors College began their trip in New York City last week.



Angels in the sky

From wing-walkers to F/A-18 jets, the 15th Annual Indianapolis Air Show was filled with stunts that made many observers weak in the knees at Mount Comfort Airport on Saturday.


Angels in the sky

From wing-walkers to F/A-18 jets, the 15th Annual Indianapolis Air Show was filled with stunts that made many observers weak in the knees at Mount Comfort Airport on Saturday. 


Proposal would limit Indiana college tuition hikes

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana's higher education commission is recommending that the state's public universities keep their tuition increases under caps of 2.5 percent to 3.5 percent in each of the next two years.