Gov. Eric Holcomb and President Donald Trump both won victories in the state for Republicans, along with the state attorney general’s race where Democrats had made a major push. A central Indiana congressional seat that Democrats hoped to win after decades as a GOP bastion was undecided Tuesday night.
Recap of Election Day activity from Daily News photographers.
A large voter turnout is expected across the U.S. on Election Day, a judge rejected the effort to throw out drive-thru ballots cast in Houston, hospitals hire short-term travel nurses to combat rising coronavirus cases, Kyle Rittenhouse's bail is set at $2 million and a federal judge in Chicago blocks the effort to deny green cards to immigrants who use food stamps make up this week's five national stories.
At least 19 people were fatally shot at Kabal University in Afghanistan, Germany closes restauarnts for four weeks, a typhoon devastates the eastern Philippines, thousands of people continue to protest in Belarus and a new lockdown announed in the U.K. may have to continue after one month.
With under two weeks until the presidential election, Vice President Mike Pence returned to his home state of Indiana to speak to his and President Donald Trump’s supporters.
Immersive learning comes in many forms — community partnerships, real-world problem-solving and even learning how to bind books.
On Oct. 28, Ball State Student Government Association (SGA) held its weekly senate meeting over Zoom, where they voted on an amendment introduced last week regarding filling vacancies on the Executive Board and defining the line of succession.
Ball State’s Rinard Orchid Greenhouse is hosting a "Magic School Bus"-themed Halloween event Saturday, Oct. 31. Erica Forstater, environmental educator, started this annual public event in 2018 and is in charge of hosting it every year.
In a press release sent out around noon Wednesday, Muncie Mayor Dan Ridenour announced that Board of Public Works and Safety member Jerry Wise has been removed from the board.
Amy Coney Barrett awaits high-profile cases on the Supreme Court, California braces for more fires and winds, the Philadelphia police shooting of a Black man sparks protests, scientists remove murder hornets from Washington state and an Eli Lilly COVID-19 antibody drug trial loses government funding make up this week's five national stories.
Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court late Monday by a deeply divided Senate, Republicans overpowering Democrats to install President Donald Trump’s nominee days before the election and secure a likely conservative court majority for years to come.
Spain enforces a curfew to curb the spread of COVID-19, Pope Francis names 13 new cardinals, Italy closes gyms and movie theaters for one month, Iran's health minister criticizes his government's handling of the pandemic and Japan rejects the United Nation's Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons make up this week's five international stories.
Though many of Ball State’s in-person services are shut down for the foreseeable future, the university is still doing its best to educate students and faculty on LGBTQ issues.
After designing 12 buildings for class projects without being able to see any of them built, Steven Polchinski, fourth-year architecture major, spent part of his spring 2020 semester working with graduate students to assemble new benches and trash cans for Minnetrista.
At the Oct. 21 Zoom meeting, Ball State Student Government Association (SGA) was presented with a budget request that would allow students on campus to give feedback on their respective colleges in exchange for stickers. The request, presented by Senators Chiara Biddle and Miryam Bevelle, is part of a college loyalty campaign that the two have been working on.
An Alaska tsunami warning came after an earthquake Monday, Black police officers are breaking from unions because of Donald Trump endorsements, a California panel of doctors will review any coronavirus vaccine before residents are able to receive it, an excavation for victims of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre continues and hospitals in the rural Midwest struggle to contain virus outbreaks.
Confirmed COVID-19 cases pass 40 million globally, the Thai prime minster attempts to diminish support for pro-democracy protests, UN arms embargoes on Iran expired Sunday, Russia avoids lockdown measures as COVID-19 infections increase and New Zealand's prime minster won re-election.
When Patricia Lang, Ball State chemistry professor and director of Ball State’s Indiana Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (IN-LSAMP) project, and her team found a new way to teach science, they took advantage of the opportunity to make something creative — in this case, a comic book.
Ball State University welcomes students from around the world to study on its campus, but this semester, the amount of international students enrolled at Ball State has decreased drastically as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
