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Another Teen Nabbed
in Columbine-Like Plot

16-year-old sought gun used in Colorado killings

Apr 25, 08 9:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Indiana 16-year-old plotted a Columbine-style mass killing on September 11 and even sought the same pistol used in that attack, the AP reports. The high school student faces charges of conspiracy to commit murder when he appears in court today. Police found 100 knives in his home and say... More »

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high school • explosives • Indiana • school shooting • Columbine school massacre • murder plot • guns

 'Change' Falls Flat
 With Hoosiers 

Voters clinging to 'traditional values' could require Democrats to tweak approach

Apr 24, 08 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite the ubiquitous use of “change” as a rallying cry in the Democratic primaries, the New York Times notes, the candidates might want to reconsider using it ahead of Indiana's May 6 primary. Although they’re dissatisfied with the economic toll taken by the decline in manufacturing, voters generally... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Indiana • manufacturing • Democratic nomination • Democratic presidential primaries • delegates • change • Indiana primary

 Robber Shoots Pregnant Teller 

Mother in serious to critical condition, fetuses unharmed

Apr 22, 08 4:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - A bank teller pregnant with twins was shot during a robbery today in Indianapolis, but her fetuses were not directly injured, the Indianapolis Star reports. Katherine Sheffield, 30, is in serious to critical condition after a gunman walked into the bank where she worked and fired two shots into her... More »

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pregnancy • twins • Indiana • bank robbery • Indianapolis • bank teller • Huntington bank

Indiana Pols Avoid Obama/ Clinton Decision

Host of factors makes five House Dems wary of May 6 endorsement

Apr 14, 08 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Indiana is poised to become a major battleground in the Democratic presidential race, but Indiana’s Democratic House representatives look like they’re ducking the firefight. Four of the five are in their first terms, seemingly unwilling to risk angering party brass or alienating voters. Indiana’s contest looks incredibly... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Democrats • Indiana • House of Representatives • Evan Bayh • Democratic presidential primaries • Andre Carson • political endorsement • Indiana primary • Baron Hill • Brad Ellsworth • Joe Donnelly • Pete Visclosky

Clinton's Next Real Test: Indiana

Hillary counts on economy to win state, silence doubters

Apr 3, 08 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Right now all eyes are on Pennsylvania, but Hillary Clinton’s real proving ground will be Indiana, the Wall Street Journal says. Barack Obama led big in mid-February polling there, but the state is rife with the lower-income white voters who have so far flocked to Clinton. Winning them... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Indiana • Clinton 2008 • Indiana primary • white voters

Obama Wins Hamilton Nod

Longtime Indiana congressman can lend candidate national security cred

Apr 2, 08 9:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama picked up an endorsement today from longtime Indiana rep Lee Hamilton, who was the co-chairman of both the 9/11 Commission and the Iraq Study Group. Hamilton, who said Obama "has the best opportunity to create a new sense of national unity," should help his candidate both... More »

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Barack Obama • Indiana • Obama 2008 • foreign policy • Lee Hamilton • political endorsement

Dems Hope
May 6 Primary Will Settle Race

Indiana contest could break stalemate, move superdelegates

Mar 30, 08 5:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Many Democratic observers are looking past the April 22 Pennsylvania primary to the May 6 contests in Indiana and North Carolina as a chance to finally determine the primary race before the national convention. With 187 delegates at stake, May 6 holds the biggest delegate trove remaining, and the outcome... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • North Carolina • Indiana • superdelegates • Indiana primary • North Carolina primary

ANALYSIS

 Chelsea
 Draws the
 Monica Query 

Tells college questioner it's 'not any of your business'

Mar 27, 08 10:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - “Presumably, the question had to come at some point,” write the LA Times’ Andrew Malcolm and Mark Silva, but Chelsea Clinton dealt with an audience query on Monica Lewinsky “quite neatly” yesterday. The question came at the end of an Indiana college appearance when a man asked... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • Indiana • affair • Chelsea Clinton • Monica Lewinsky

 Midwest Flood Death Toll at 16  

Flood crests expected over weekend; snow blasts Minnesota, Chicago

Mar 21, 08 4:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Storms that caused flooding across the country's midsection have killed 16 people, and bad weather remains a threat, the AP reports. A snowstorm battering Minnesota and Illinois grounded hundreds of flights, and forecasters predicted a 9-inch total. Thousands were forced into shelters as rivers continued to swell; in many states,... More »

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Midwest • Chicago • Arkansas • Kentucky • Ohio • Indiana • flood • flooding • Maine • rain • Minnesota • Illinois • Missouri • snow • snowstorm • rainstorms

Voters Split
Over Obama's Pastor Problem

Some in Pa., Ind.
hold cleric's words against candidate

Mar 21, 08 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - How is the Jeremiah Wright controversy playing with voters in Pennsylvania and Indiana? The reaction isn't unanimous, but the Boston Globe finds many who say the inflammatory sound bites swayed them toward Hillary Clinton. “Twenty years he put up with that?” said one 82-year old Indiana woman said of... More »

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Barack Obama • Indiana • voters • Jeremiah Wright • Pennsylvania primary

 13 Dead in Midwest Floods 

Three people remain missing; Missouri especially hard hit

Mar 19, 08 7:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Massive flooding across the central US has left 13 people dead and three missing, the AP reports. Record or near-record crests were reported across Missouri; Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio also saw flooding. Rescuers were searching for a Texas teenager washed into a drainage pipe and for two people in... More »

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Texas • Ohio • Indiana • flooding • rain • Illinois • Missouri • storm system

State Tolls Rising—Some by 50%

Subprime crisis has officials scrambling to pay for infrastructure

Jan 28, 08 7:28 PM CST
(Newser) - As subprime fallout ripples across the country, several states are planning to increase road, bridge, and tunnel tolls, and not by mere pennies, USA Today reports. The George Washington Bridge, for example—which lets New Jerseyites into the Big Apple—will raise its rush hour price from $5 to $8... More »

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California • New Jersey • New York • Pennsylvania • Indiana • toll • highways • Indiana Toll Road

DNA May Shine Light on Killer

Headless body's ties to Indiana serial killer in doubt for a century

Jan 11, 08 2:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Authorities in Indiana are hoping DNA evidence will help them close the case of a woman who killed at least 25 people in the early 20th century before possibly faking her own death. A woman's headless body was found in the burned-out basement of Belle Gunness' house in 1908, and... More »

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genetics • murder • Indiana • Belle Gunness • serial killers • DNA evidence

Escaped Con Busted After
35 Years

Husband killer raised new family
in Tennessee

Oct 18, 07 4:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - An escaped Indiana inmate convicted of murdering her husband has been arrested after living 35 years in Tennessee, where she remarried and raised a family. The 64-year-old woman escaped while serving a life sentence in 1972.  She was living with her third husband and two of her seven children... More »

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Indiana • Tennessee

Supreme Court Will Take Up Lethal Injection

Constitutionality at issue; docket also includes voting rights

Sep 25, 07 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court will take up the constitutionality of lethal injections in what a public defender called one of the most critical death penalty cases “in decades.” The challenge stems from a 2004 suit by two Kentucky inmates on death row who charged that the method constitutes cruel... More »

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death penalty • Kentucky • lethal injection • execution • Indiana • voting rights • death row • anesthetic • photo ID • US Supreme Court • constitutionality

Jailbird Heads to Hooters

Inmate fled jail while taking out the trash

Aug 31, 07 6:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - A convict who managed to extract himself from the county jail in an Indiana town Sunday while taking out the trash was caught yesterday after he was unable to resist bragging about the caper to new-found friends at a nearby Hooters. Charles Smith, the 56-year-old escapee, wasn't even missed until... More »

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Indiana • criminal • jail • escape • Hooters • escaped criminal • Charles Smith

Fattest States in America

Aug 27, 07 8:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Trust for America's Health has come out with its fourth annual report on obesity.  And the losers are:
  1. Mississippi
  2. West Virginia
  3. Alabama
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obesity • health • childhood obesity • South Carolina • Arkansas • Kentucky • fat • Louisiana • weight • Michigan • Indiana • America • Alabama • Tennessee • Mississippi • Oklahoma • West Virginia

Indiana Mine Shaft Fall Kills 3

Workers fell 500 feet

Aug 10, 07 5:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Three workers riding in a construction bucket plunged 500 feet to their deaths in an Indiana coal mine shaft today. The “sinking bucket” can hold up to 10 people, but authorities did not say whether anyone else was in the lift. It was also unclear whether the bucket itself... More »

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Indiana • accident • miners • coal mine • Evansville

Stewart Lays a Win at Brickyard

Montoya places, Gordon Shows at Allstate 400 in Tony's backyard

Jul 30, 07 6:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tony Stewart took the Allstate 400 in his home state of Indiana yesterday, two weeks after he snapped a winless streak at the USG Sheetrock 400. The Home Depot driver battled for the lead all afternoon, finally grabbing the checkered flag by a 2.98-second margin over Juan Pablo Montoya. More »

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Tony Stewart • NASCAR • Jeff Gordon • Indiana • Nextel Cup • Dale Earnhardt Jr. • Allstate 400 • Brickyard • Chicagoland Raceway • Home Depot • Juan Pablo Montoya • Denny Hamlin

Home Foreclosures Hit Record

A dreary real estate market is fueling an all-time high rate of foreclosures

Jun 14, 07 3:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Home foreclosures hit a record high in first-quarter 2007 as more subprime borrowers failed to make their mortgage payments. The number of mortgages entering foreclosure spiked four basis points to 0.58% and over 2.4% of subprime mortgage holders defaulted, up from 2% last quarter, according to a report... More »

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real estate • economic growth • subprime mortgages • Ohio • homes • Michigan • Indiana • foreclosure • mortgage • Mortgage Bankers Association • US economy • borrowers • Great Depression

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