INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Mike Pence says Indiana won't comply with President Barack Obama's plan to address climate change unless there are significant changes.
ATLANTA (AP) — Tributes to the Confederacy and the Jim Crow era that have existed still abound in the Deep South and beyond more than a century after the end of the Civil War. Here are some of the most high-profile displays, including several that are being criticized anew following the fatal shooting of nine parishioners at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina: — ALABAMA: An 88 -foot-tall Confederate memorial sits at the Capitol entrance nearest the governor's office.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Same-sex couples in Indiana who've flocked to the altar since courts threw out the state's ban on gay marriage last year worry that a pending U.S. Supreme Court ruling could lead to legal limbo.
NEW YORK (AP) — The name of the album is "Gilgamesh," the ancient Mesopotamian king with superhuman strength and courage who undertakes a perilous quest to discover the secret of eternal life. The epic tale embodies the complexities of life and finding one's self that the four-man heavy metal band Acrassicauda believe is symbolic of their own journey from war-torn Baghdad to an American recording studio. With roots in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the band members discovered their love for heavy metal through Slayer and Metallica cassettes they dug up in the black markets of the then-heavily sanctioned country.
VENTURA, Calif. (AP) â A plane registered to Oscar-winning "Titanic" composer James Horner has crashed in Southern California, but the identity of the one person who died has not been released. Jay Cooper, an attorney for Horner, said the plane was one of several owned by the 61-year-old composer, and that no one has heard from him since the crash. "It was his plane and if he wasn't in it, he would've called," Cooper said Monday night. The Associated Press has not confirmed Horner's death. The Hollywood Reporter cited Sylvia Patrycja, who it says is identified on Horner's film music page as his assistant in confirming his death.
CHICAGO (AP) — Strong winds that swept across parts of northern Illinois spawned several possible tornadoes, severely damaged homes and forced first responders to pull survivors from the basements of homes, officials said Tuesday. The storm was moving east, threatening to bring similar weather to northern Indiana and parts of Michigan, where strong winds also damaged homes, prompted rescues and knocked out power to thousands of people late Monday and early Tuesday. Particularly hard hit was a private camping resort in Sublette, an Illinois community about 100 miles west of Chicago.
BOSTON (AP) — The creator of the pink plastic lawn flamingo, the ultimate symbol of American lawn kitsch, has died.
Governor Mike Pence appointed Dustin Meeks to a two-year term as the Ball State student trustee on Monday.
The blast, powered by at least 40 sticks of dynamite, ripped into the stillness before dawn. A few more hours and Sunday school classrooms at The Temple on Atlanta's Peachtree Street would have been filled with 600 children.
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — The city of Muncie is looking for someone to take over responsibility for upkeep of a median designed to ensure safe passage for pedestrians and bicyclists and improve the appearance of a commercial strip. The perennial plants on the McGalliard Road island have been overtaken by weeds after the landscape company that had maintained the site for more than a decade stopped doing so due to what one official calls a "miscommunication." Angie Pool, CEO of Cardinal Greenways, told The Star Press (http://tspne.ws/1L5ZNn2 ) that the company that had donated its services to maintain the island had decided to stop doing so.
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — It's the sweetest news you'll read all day: There's a new candy store on Muncie's northwest side. Chocolate Paradise opened earlier this spring with big dreams and sweet ideas, including a goal of being the go-to place in town to find top-tier chocolates. Owned by Chris Whittenburg, a Muncie native now living in Texas, Chocolate Paradise offers a variety of homemade goods, including caramels and truffles, both of which are made by store employees.
Police have identified the suspect in a fatal shooting that killed nine people at a historic black church in downtown Charleston as 21-year-old Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina. An intense manhunt is underway for Roof.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — In a sweeping environmental manifesto aimed at spurring concrete action, Pope Francis called Thursday for a bold cultural revolution to correct what he described as a "structurally perverse" economic system where the rich exploit the poor, turning Earth into an "immense pile of filth." Francis framed climate change as an urgent moral issue to address in his eagerly anticipated encyclical, blaming global warming on an unfair, fossil fuel-based industrial model that harms the poor most. Citing Scripture, his predecessors and bishops from around the world, the pope urged people of every faith and even no faith to undergo an awakening to save God's creation for future generations. The document released Thursday was a stinging indictment of big business and climate doubters alike, aimed at spurring courageous changes at U.N.
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — An intense manhunt was under way Thursday for a young white man who joined a prayer meeting and then opened fire inside a historic black church in downtown Charleston, killing nine people, including the pastor, in what authorities called a hate crime. The shooter remained at large Thursday morning and police released photographs from surveillance video of a suspect and a dark colored sedan that may have been the getaway vehicle. "This is a very dangerous individual," Police Chief Greg Mullen said. The suspect attended the meeting at the church Wednesday night and stayed for nearly an hour before the deaths, Mullen said. The victims were six females and three males, Mullen said Thursday morning.
Ball State 1972 graduate Gary Graham is a former Daily News editor and is currently editor at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane. The DN talked to him on Tuesday about the Rachel Dolezal story and how it has unfolded.
The steps to the library are being repaired for the first time in “a number of years,” according to assistant dean for public services Suzanne Rice.
The National Forensics Association has decided to host its National Tournament at Ball State after pulling the event from campus when state legislators passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act last March. The 2016 event will bring around 1,200 students and faculty members from across the country to campus and rake in anywhere between $1 and $2 million for the Muncie community, Director of Individual Events, Mary Moore, said.
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A fourth-floor balcony of a California apartment building collapsed Tuesday, killing five Irish students and leaving eight other people with serious injuries during a 21st birthday party, officials said. All five of the dead in the college town of Berkeley were in the U.S.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (BOO'-tah-juhj) has come out as gay in a newspaper editorial. The first-term Democratic mayor says in the personal essay published Tuesday in the South Bend Tribune (http://bit.ly/1dHOJza ) that he was well into adulthood before he was prepared to acknowledge that he's gay.
NEW YORK (AP) — The woman who resigned as head of a local NAACP branch after her parents said she was white said Tuesday that she started identifying as black around the age of 5, when she drew self-portraits with a brown crayon, and "takes exception" to the contention that she tried to deceive people. Rachel Dolezal said Tuesday on NBC's "Today" Show that some of the discussion about her has been "viciously inhumane."
