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Some natural gas customers get break on bills
Winter heating bills will be higher this year, but not as high as once feared, utility officials say.
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Indiana BMV to sponsor food drive
The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles will again sponsor a holiday food drive in coordination with food banks across the state.
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Lawmakers Split Over Property Tax Amendment
Republican leaders in the Statehouse want to approve a proposed constitutional amendment limiting property tax bills, but Democrats and local government officials want to wait to see the impact of the caps ...
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Indiana unlikely to tackle same-sex marriage ban in 2009
Though the number of states adopting bans on same-sex marriage grows, the odds appear slim that Indiana lawmakers will give serious consideration to such a constitutional amendment next year.
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Indiana poverty rate soars as manufacturing jobs cut
A new report from a housing and homeless advocacy group shows poverty increasing at an alarming rate in Indiana while earnings for middle-income families continue to slip.
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Daniels plans to scale back inauguration
INDIANAPOLIS - The state Republican chairman says Gov. Mitch Daniels will have a scaled-down second inauguration in January partly because the economic downturn is hurting so many Hoosiers.
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Deputy's death blamed on a distracted driver'
The final report on the death of a sheriff's deputy fatally injured last month while directing traffic blames the accident on a "distracted driver." The report, released Thursday, found that a 16-year-old girl ...
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Barack Obama's audacious Indiana victory
INDIANAPOLIS Maybe it was that summer Saturday when Barack and Michelle Obama hosted a picnic in Noblesville that it began to sink in: This guy might just carry Indiana.
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Christmas Story Fans Celebrate 1983 Film
Fans of the holiday movie "A Christmas Story" are celebrating the film's 25th anniversary with a convention and trips to the house where the movie was made.
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'Rush Hour' Bank Robber Captured In Indiana
A man dubbed the "Rush Hour Robber" is behind bars in Indiana. Stuart Vance, 35, of Clarksville was arrested for a burglary in Shelby County.
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Indiana Addresses Viral Hepatitis
State health officials say between 3.5 to 4 million Americans are living with viral hepatitis.
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Infatuation led to teen's kidnapping, prosecutors say
A young man's infatuation with a teenage girl led to her abduction and a six-month nightmare of sexual abuse and beatings, federal prosecutors alleged on Wednesday.
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More of 76th home
More Indiana National Guard troops returned home Thursday morning after spending nine months in Iraq.
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Indiana woman lived to be 115
Edna Parker, who became the world's oldest person more than a year ago, has died at age 115.
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Group proposes $10 a green' fee for cars in Indiana
A mass transportation organization wants Indiana residents to pay a "green" fee of $10 on each car and truck on the road to help promote mass transit options.
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Record 2.8 million Hoosiers cast ballots
More Hoosiers voted in this year's election than ever before, and more of them did so early.
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Interstate 65 Ramps To I 80-94 Now Open
Nov 27, 2008 10:20 am US/Central Just in time for Thanksgiving traffic, all the ramps connecting Interstate 65 with Interstate 80/94 in Indiana opened Wednesday morning.
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Gift certificates for birth control? Foes say bah!
At the Planned Parenthood of Indiana, 'tis the season of giving health care and contraception. But it's a sentiment that opponents of abortion and artificial birth control say denigrates the holiday season. The network of 35 clinics across the state announced it is offering holiday vouchers for basic health care services 'or the recipient's choice of birth control method.' The organization decided to offer the vouchers because so many people are uninsured or are putting off health care because of prohibitive costs, said Betty Cockrum, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Indiana. Nearly 800,000 Indiana residents don't have health insurance, she said.
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Troops return home for holiday
INDIANAPOLIS -- Kimberly Martindale is looking forward to traveling to her mother's for Thanksgiving.
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Indiana woman can keep Be Gods plate
INDIANAPOLIS- The Bureau of Motor Vehicles has reversed an earlier ruling and decided that a woman may have a personalized license plate carrying the words "BE GODS." The reversal came after Liz Ferris sued ...
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