A Ball State University student's joke ended with him on the ground wearing handcuffs. Gavin Howell, 24, was arrested Sunday and preliminarily charged with theft, a Class D felony, after he took a police bike for a joy ride, Gene Burton, Ball State director of public safety, said.
A former Ball State University student remained in Delaware County Jail on Monday after an attempted armed robbery at a near-campus gas station, according to police reports. Muncie police arrested Chadwic Spencer Nash, 20, and preliminarily charged him with armed robbery - a Class B felony - Sunday, according to the Muncie Police Department's probable cause affidavit for Nash's arrest.
Losers of their last four nonconference games, the Ball State University baseball team will try and ride the momentum from Sunday's doubleheader sweep at the University at Buffalo to break the skid against Purdue University on Tuesday. The Cardinals (14-12) travel to West Lafayette to take on their second Big Ten opponent of the season.
Perci Garner stood on the mound in the Field Sports Building, nerves racking his body. He rocked back and fired the horsehide, lighting up the radar gun. After just the first pitch, his first off a mound in 1 1/2 years, one observer was blown away by the raw talent.
The Ball State University baseball game against Indiana Tech scheduled for Wednesday has been cancelled.
Delaware County coroner Jim Clevenger said the University Police Department and he have no reason to suspect foul play in the death of freshman Garrison Ringenberg. "We're confident no one else was involved," he said. "No one broke into his room and harmed him.
A former high school drop-out is one of two candidates to take over for Roy Weaver as the dean of the Teachers College. Barry Kanpol offered solutions to problems facing the American education system in Bracken Library on Monday during the first of two open forums to select a new dean for the Teachers College.
Today's scheduled Ball State University softball game at IPFW was canceled Monday because of expected poor field conditions. Coach Craig Nicholson said Sunday's rain made the softball fields at IPFW and Ball State unusable. The Cardinals (16-16, 6-1 Mid-American Conferenece) will use today to work on their hitting before trying to return outside Wednesday, he said.
Learning to manage money was the central theme Jean Chatzky stressed to students during her speech at John R. Emens Auditorium on Monday night. "If people understood mortgages and credit scoring, if we were responsible for our own finances, we would not be in the situation we are today," Chatzky said.
Natalie Russo uses her left hand to push the joystick on her power wheelchair. As her chair makes contact with the oversized, 13-inch soccer ball during a team scrimmage, her wheels light up red, yellow and green. This scrimmage fills Irving Gymnasium with the sounds of seven battery-powered wheelchairs hustling up and down the court, trying to keep up with the various speeds their drivers desire, and the sound of rubber tires screeching against the floor.
One moment at Clancy's Village Bowl on Saturday stands out in junior Jessica Sallee's mind. In the lane next to hers, a young boy was struggling to hit a pin. "It's hard, you know, being that young, so we went and tried to help him," she said. "Then he did, and he was smiling and smiling, he was so happy.
TeamRecord Votes1. Pepperdine 18-22362. UC Irvine 20-42233. CS Northridge21-52044. USC 16-71855. Stanford 19-81806. BYU15-10165 7. Penn State10-121388. Long Beach St.11-131349. UCLA12-1311510. UC San Diego11-139711. Ohio State12-97012. Lewis19-66113. Santa Barbara8-165314.
For the second time this season, Elizabeth Milian is the Mid-American Conference West Pitcher of the Week.
A reception and memorial honoring Garrison Ringenberg, a student who died in Clevenger Hall on Saturday, will take place outside Brayton and Clevenger Halls at 9 p.m.
A weekend full of rain couldn't wash out the Ball State University baseball team from the weekly Mid-American Conference Awards.
After a weekend in Buffalo, N.Y., the Ball State University baseball team boarded the bus home with two victories and a trip to Niagara Falls under its belt. The Cardinals (14-12, 5-2) swept Sunday's doubleheader against the University at Buffalo (10-17, 1-7) with victories of 15-9 and 3-2.
I was sitting on the toilet, minding my business, when a dog barked. Strange, I thought, because dogs, or pets of any kind, are forbidden from this apartment complex. The bark seemed to come from the kitchen. Also strange, I thought, because I've lived with my Viennese host family for three weeks now, and somehow, this dog has escaped my attention.
