MUNCIE, Ind.- Ball State University has approved plans for a $4.6 million planetarium its director says will dazzle visitors with projections of 10 million stars.
COLUMBUS, Ind. - Faye Williams, manager at Zaharakos Ice Cream Parlor, soon will lose 10 staff members - more than an eighth of her restaurant's workforce.
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council delayed a vote on a new Syria resolution until Thursday in a last-minute effort to get key Western nations and Russia to agree on measures to end the dramatically escalating violence.
SAN DIEGO - A woman charged with murdering a Marine's wife said she strangled the victim to keep her from another Marine who ran a kinky sex ring, according to search warrants unsealed Wednesday.
GREENSBURG, Ind.- Honda Manufacturing of Indiana LLC said Wednesday that it plans to increase its capacity by 50,000 vehicles annually at its plant and add production of the Civic Hybrid early next year, creating about 300 new jobs.
Two Ball State graduates are competing for the opportunity to have their self-created smartphone application funded and utilized by Evernote, a development company based out of Redwood City, Calif.
INDIANAPOLIS- Indiana State Police Superintendent Paul Whitesell is reminding troopers to enforce laws barring motorists from flicking cigarettes onto roadsides amid a drought parching the state.
BOSTON - Taking aim at what they call an abuse of the taxpayers' money, a growing number of states are blocking welfare recipients from spending their benefits on booze, cigarettes, lottery tickets, casino gambling, tattoos and strippers.
Four Ball State alumnae, and former members of the university's Code Red Dance Team, have made it as finalists to be selected as part of the 2012-2013 Indiana Pacemates squad.
Today, the unveiling of hard work put in by a Ball State immersive learning group will take place at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in Indianapolis, a project that sheds light on the life and work of the famous artist and author.
INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana officials are preparing for a long battle with a devastating drought that could last three more months.
Hundreds of Delaware County residents attended the beef and sheep shows Sunday at the Delaware County fairgrounds as part of the annual 4-H fair.
Having already lost $13 million in state funding in 2011, Ball State officials hope a new university strategic plan that emphasizes faculty retainment will prevent Indiana State legislators from making more budgetary cuts.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - A 21-year-old Fort Wayne man was being treated in a hospital burn unit Sunday, one day after an explosion ripped apart a two-story house.
LAKE STATION, Ind.- The private operator of the Indiana Toll Road continues to study the possible elimination of westbound Exit 21 and still plans to make a decision by this fall, according to ITR Concession Co. spokeswoman Amber Kettring.
INDIANAPOLIS - Visitors to next month's Indiana State Fair will face higher gate admission prices and a first-ever parking charge as the fair returns after taking a financial hit in the wake of last year's deadly stage collapse.
LOS ANGELES - Channel blackouts such as the one that resulted from the recent spat between Viacom and DirecTV have become far more common over the past three years. Consumers can thank the changing dynamics of the entertainment industry.
A year after the criminal case accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting a hotel maid started to crumble, it's getting renewed scrutiny in her lawsuit over the encounter with the former International Monetary Fund chief.
WOLFEBORO, N.H. - Mitt Romney's campaign said Sunday that President Barack Obama is willing to say anything to win a second term and should say he's sorry for attacks on the Republican's successful career at a private equity firm. "No, we will not apologize," the president responded, adding that if Romney wants credit for his business leadership, he also needs to take responsibility.
INDIANAPOLIS - In the same week that Indiana schools chief Tony Bennett praised the Dickinson Fine Arts Academy in South Bend for improving its test scores enough to avoid a state takeover, the South Bend Community School Corp. voted to eliminate 89 jobs. -á
