Indiana jobless mark below 5 percent for 1st time since 2008
By The Associated Press / July 21, 2015INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's unemployment rate has dropped below 5 percent for the first time since the national recession was starting in 2008.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's unemployment rate has dropped below 5 percent for the first time since the national recession was starting in 2008.
The second week of the 89th annual National Aeromodeling Championships is underway at Muncie’s Academy of Model Aeronautics, the world’s largest model aviation society. The event draws upward of a thousand model aeronautic enthusiasts every year and features around 120 different aero model events ranging from races and time trials, to acrobatics and precision flying—ensuring plenty of excitement over the course of the month long event.
The proposal for a new health professions building was unanimously approved by the Board of Trustees.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Mike Pence has directed the state Department of Health to investigate Planned Parenthood facilities in Indiana in cooperation with the Indiana attorney general to see if organs from aborted fetuses are being sold.
HOBART, Ind. (AP) — Byron Allen had been living in a motel near Gary's Miller neighborhood until his employer didn't pay him on time, and he got kicked out on the street. He drove up and down Broadway and finally found a homeless shelter, which didn't have room, so he hunkered down in his car in the parking lot, trying to get some sleep. A good Samaritan told him it wasn't the best idea, and he'd be safer if he parked outside the police station downtown.
On Saturday, the Ball State forward will hear his name called as he walks across the stage to graduate.
Two Ball State graduates will be opening their third technology repair shop next week in an effort to expand their burgeoning business.
After his first experience in Slovenia in 1995, Dom Caristi has gone on one more Fulbright trip to Greece, become a Fulbright ambassador and is Ball State’s Fulbright adviser. He has even applied to go on a third trip. “I’m their biggest cheerleader ... There are plenty of more prestigious Fulbrighters than me. There are members of the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives. There are captains of industry,” Caristi said. “They’re more famous and more accomplished, but there’s nobody who’s more enthusiastic about it than me.”
At the end of this month, take some time out of your day to make your own wizard wand to celebrate Harry Potter’s 35th birthday and J.K. Rowling’s 50th birthday, both on July 31.
Strength coaches David Feeley and Ben Armer wanted to do something fun for the players this summer. The players dressed up as superheroes to "hulk-smash" max-out leg day, resulting in a YouTube video that has amassed in over 100 thousand views.
The event, sponsored by the Ball State athletic department and Terrance Smith Distributing Inc., will be free for families to come and meet the Clydesdales while enjoying a movie on a giant screen.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Many central and southern Indiana communities faced scattered road flooding and power outages after strong thunderstorms swept across the state. The National Weather Service has flood warnings in effect Tuesday morning for much of the Indianapolis area south to around Columbus, where officials helped people from some homes surrounded by floodwaters.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A loud boom that knocked a Rhode Island beachgoer out of her chair is still a mystery days later, and with no evidence of an explosive device and few clues in the sand, investigators and scientists are wondering whether this was a bizarre case of nature acting up. Among the theories that have been floated: some kind of seismic event, or a methane explosion caused by decayed seaweed or other organic matter under the sand. "I must confess to not understanding this particular unexplained event," said Stephen Porder, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Brown University.
For the second straight season, Ball State senior center Jacob Richard has been named to the Rimington Award Watch List.
Renovations continue in the Writing Center, updated for the first time since 1984.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 1,800 immigrants that the federal government wanted to deport from the United States were nevertheless released from local jails and later re-arrested for various crimes, according to a government report released Monday. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement report — obtained by an organization that actively opposes illegal immigration — said the re-arrested immigrants were among 8,145 people who were freed between January and August 2014, despite requests from federal agents that they be held for deportation. The report provided by the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies says about 23 percent were eventually taken into custody again on a variety of charges. Many jurisdictions have stopped honoring so-called immigration detainers, requests to keep the immigrants in custody, saying they can't hold arrestees without probable cause. In a case drawing national attention to the issue, authorities say a woman was shot to death in San Francisco earlier this month by a suspect who was released from jail despite an immigration detainer. In the report, the top crimes for which immigrants were re-arrested were drug violations and drunken driving.
NEW YORK (AP) — A recurring feeling has accompanied Amy Schumer's rapid ascent in show business. "It's always: I walk in a room thinking maybe I belong in here," she says over a plate of meatballs at a Greenwich Village cafe.
BOSTON (AP) — In her computer-generated image, she is the picture of innocence: a 4-year-old girl with long brown hair, chubby cheeks and expressive brown eyes.
The Delaware County Fair kicks off its 163rd year next week at the fairgrounds, with events ranging from a demolition derby to cat and dog shows. The 4-H portion of the fair has events scheduled from July 14-22, while the Midway events are scheduled from July 18-25. The carnival opens July 20.
