At the games

As the beginning of the 2012 London Summer Olympics quickly approaches, Ball State students and professors are preparing for the big trip and the publicity it may bring to various departments on campus. -á



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Ball State students compete in Miss Indiana pageant

As the Miss Indiana Scholarship Pageant began Saturday at the Zionsville Performing Arts Center, four Ball State students and an alumna were among those competing for the crown and the title of Miss Indiana.


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Rodney King, whose beating led to LA riots, dies

LOS ANGELES - His beating stunned the nation, left Los Angeles smoldering and helped reshape race relations and police tactics. And in a quavering voice on national television, Rodney King pleaded for peace while the city burned.


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Romney starts ad wave; GOP PAC gets more cash

WASHINGTON - A deep-pocketed casino mogul is pouring a $10 million infusion of cash into a group backing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's cause just as the Romney campaign makes its largest ad buy since becoming the all-but-certain GOP challenger to President Barack Obama.



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Verizon to phase out most existing phone plans

NEW YORK - Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest cellphone company, is phasing out nearly all of its existing phone plans and replacing them with pricing schemes that encourage customers to connect their non-phone devices, like tablets and PCs, to the Verizon network.



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Judge sets hearing on CBS bid to block ABC series

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal judge has set a hearing on a motion by CBS to block the premiere of the upcoming ABC reality series "The Glass House" on the basis it copies elements and secrets from the long-running show "Big Brother."



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Artistry and heritage

East Central Indiana's history with glass stretches back to 1887 when the Ball family moved its glass manufacturing business from New York to Muncie. Minnetrista, partnering with the Marilyn K. Glick Center for Glass, celebrates this heritage in its exhibit "Glass: A Juried Art Show."


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SANDUSKY: Accusers testify in Day 3 of trial

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) - One, a foster child, said he was threatened, warned he would never see his family again if he ever told anyone what happened. Another said he stayed quiet because he didn't want to stop getting tickets to the hottest game in town - Penn State football.


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NW Ind. district: Facebook comments posed threat

HAMMOND, Ind.- Three eighth-grade girls expelled from school for making comments on Facebook about killing classmates posed a threat to other students, attorneys for a northwestern Indiana school district said.






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