Schools chief, mayors seek more funds from Senate
By The Associated Press / March 21, 2013INDIANAPOLIS — School Superintendent Glenda Ritz and a small group of Indiana mayors are making their case for more funding from the state.
INDIANAPOLIS — School Superintendent Glenda Ritz and a small group of Indiana mayors are making their case for more funding from the state.
DENVER — Civil unions for gay couples in Colorado will be signed into law Thursday, a dramatic turnaround for a state where voters banned same-sex marriage in 2006.
CHICAGO — Chicago teachers, students and parents began learning Thursday whether their schools are among those the city plans to close as part of a cost-cutting plan that opponents say will disproportionately affect minority children.
CLEVELAND — An Ohio man has been sentenced to six months in prison for bringing a loaded gun, ammunition and knives to a showing of the latest Batman movie.
As the Ball State gymnastics team prepares for the Mid-American Conference Championship tournament this Saturday, they hope that the long, trying season will have a positive effect on their post-season performance.
Campus draws students and community members with live music, free food, a street fair and the annual main event — the McKinley Mile bike race this Saturday.
Sometimes the best secrets are the ones that aren’t best kept.
Having recently played South by Southwest (SXSW), Thee Open Sex will be stopping by Muncie’s Village Green Records at 8 p.m. Friday.
After a strong weekend on the road in Louisville and two players earning titles from the Mid-American Conference West Division, Ball State travels to Fort Collins, Colo.
WASHINGTON — The Senate approved legislation Wednesday to lock in $85 billion in broad federal spending cuts and simultaneously avoid a government shutdown next week — and pointedly rejected a call to even reopen White House tours that the Obama administration says had to be canceled because of the cuts.
Keenan Pfotenhauer and Zach Brubaker have followed Ball State’s volleyball team for years which has given a special relationship with the team.
Dwandra Lampkin will perform, for the first time, her one-woman show “The Conviction of Lady Lorraine” based on her experience trying to convince the homeless woman to tell her story.
