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Fair collapse suit challenges Ind.'s $5M tort cap

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana law that caps the state's liability for damages at $5 million for a single event violates the U.S. and state constitutions and should be thrown out, six plaintiffs suing over the deadly collapse of an Indiana State Fair stage said in a lawsuit filed Monday.



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DISTANT FIRST: Lack of enforcement endangers students

When the law first went into effect, even I had my doubts. I still have no idea how it could be enforced. But somehow, it needs to happen. I don't doubt that it's a difficult law to enforce, but that's why the police are in charge. 


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KAMERA OBSCURA: On the 'money'

It's an old cliché that the best sports movies are never about sports. "Raging Bull," "Hoosiers" and "Bull Durham" are all considered some of the best sports movies ever made, and yet they deal with themes much larger than those played out on the field. Director Bennett Miller's "Moneyball" is no different.


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Police ID Ind. shooting victims; killer at large

INDIANAPOLIS — Investigators probing the fatal shootings of five people in rural southeastern Indiana said Tuesday that no suspects have been identified and that it appears the killer or killers wasn't among the dead.


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Feds: Mass. man planned to blow up Pentagon

BOSTON — A Massachusetts man was arrested Wednesday and accused of plotting to destroy the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol by attacking the buildings with large, remote-controlled aircraft armed with lethal amounts of explosives.







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