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A departed friend recalled
"I heard the news," Sorethroat says. "It's a shame and a surprise. Funny how you think there's always time and then there isn't. I talked with him just a week ago and we discussed plans to have lunch." "Same ...
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Child porn case ends with 33-year prison sentence
A Michigan man was sentenced to 33 years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to more than three dozen child pornography charges in a case that grew out of a 2006 Australian law enforcement investigation.
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Parents of girl who died in foster care might sue
An Indianapolis couple whose 3-year-old daughter died in foster care have notified the Indiana Department of Child Services that they intend to sue the agency for wrongful death.
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Indiana Man Charged In Sex-For-Gas Scheme
A man from Indiana and a Kentucky woman were arrested earlier this week in an alleged scheme that involving trading sex for gas.
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More Hoosiers can buy into state's health plan
The state is allowing uninsured Hoosiers to buy into its Healthy Indiana Plan - an insurance option previously available only to low-income residents.
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Union: Strike by Toll Road collectors possible
A union official said today that differences over proposed contract terms between the private operator of the Indiana Toll Road and a union that represents its toll collectors could lead to a strike.
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FSSA receives grant for crisis counseling services
Today, the Indiana Family Social Services Administration's Division of Mental Health and Addiction received a Crisis Counseling Grant to assist Indiana residents impacted by the tornadoes and flooding that ...
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DNC - John McCain and Law Enforcement
Washington, DC-- When John McCain speaks to the National Sheriffs Association in Indiana today he will no doubt try to convince voters that he would give their sheriffs and local law enforcement officers the ...
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Obama spending resources in 'red' Indiana
Barack Obama is spending resources in Republican-leaning Indiana, which hasn't gone Democratic in a presidential election since Lyndon Johnson won the state in 1964.
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Indiana's NewsCenter: Fort Wayne WPTA-TV, WISE-TV, CW, My Network, and Weather Plus
On the day it took effect, a federal judge has thrown out a new Indiana law requiring bookstores and other retailers to pay a registration fee if they want to sell sexually explicit material.
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Quayle says he respects Obama; McCain has uphill battle
Former Vice President Dan Quayle said Tuesday he respects Democrat Barack Obama "because he beat the Clintons" and fears Republican John McCain faces an "uphill battle" to defeat him in November's presidential ...
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Runaway caught driving stolen charter bus
State troopers say a 14-year-old runaway from Chicago stole a charter bus and drove it on a northern Indiana highway until a small fire broke out under the vehicle.
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Voters may not care much about who runs in No. 2 spot
When major party candidates for governor in Indiana announce the choice for their lieutenant governor running mates -- or when word leaks out -- it almost always makes a big splash in the media.
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Small Indiana town rebuilds after flood
Residents of a small Indiana town say they may be down but not yet driven out by recent torrential flooding.
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Theoret wins Thunder on the Ohio hydroplane race
A year after a blowover accident at Evansville, Jean Theoret emerged the winner of the Thunder on the Ohio unlimited hydroplane race.
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Hoosier soldier killed in Afghanistan
A Hoosier soldier was killed while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
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Tragic cases often spur fetal homicide laws
A masked gunman enters an Indianapolis bank, jumps over the counter and shoots teller Katherin Shuffield, who was five months pregnant.
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'Anything close is in play again'
Presumed Republican presidential candidate John McCain's maverick image might help him in New Hampshire, a political analyst says.
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ASSESSORS: Townships' future in doubt?
Later this month, township assessors will drop from the landscape of rural Indiana, and county officials will step in to handle their work.
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EDITORIAL: Twp. assessors will lose jobs Tuesday
Last December, former Indiana Gov. Joseph Kernan and Randall Shepard, chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, authored a nearly 50-page document entitled "Streamlining Local Government," with its subtitle ...
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