Central Ind. hit with subzero temperatures
By Evie Lichtenwalter / January 22, 2013After previously mild winter weather, chilly temperatures are expected this week, bringing in the coldest weather so far this season.
After previously mild winter weather, chilly temperatures are expected this week, bringing in the coldest weather so far this season.
Forty Indiana schools and school districts have been chosen to share $10 million in grants to reward excellent teachers.
Declaring “our journey is not complete,” President Barack Obama took the oath of office for his second term before a crowd of hundreds of thousands Monday.
Gun advocates — some with rifles slung across shoulders or pistols holstered at the hip — have rallied peacefully in state capitals nationwide against President Barack Obama’s sweeping federal gun-control proposals.
Music echoed through Muncie Mall Saturday night as the Larry McWilliams group played live for dancers of all ages.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eugene Robinson will speak tonight with a heavy emphasis on race relations and diversity, according to the Multicultural Center.
With a goal to perform music “between the genres,” the Rastrelli Cello Quartet will provide a mixture of Bach, George Gershwin and other composers Tuesday evening in Sursa Performance Hall.
The hostage-taking at a remote Algerian gas plant was carried out by 30 militants from across the northern swath of Africa and two from Canada, authorities said. The militants, who wore military uniforms and knew the layout, included explosives experts who rigged it with bombs and a leader whose final order was to kill all the captives.
WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House will vote next week to permit the government to borrow more money to meet its obligations, a move aimed at heading off a market-rattling confrontation with President Barack Obama over the so-called debt limit.
NEWTOWN, Conn. — The first of the money donated through the United Way after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School is being spent in part to meet the immediate needs of first responders, teachers and others who lost wages and may have exhausted their benefits.
Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin indicted on charges that he used his office for personal gain.
PHILADELPHIA — A man has been arrested on charges he grabbed a woman by the feet and threw her onto the tracks at a Philadelphia subway station, police said. The woman managed to get off the tracks on her own and suffered only minor injuries.
ALGIERS, Algeria — About 60 foreign hostages are still unaccounted for three days into a bloody siege with Islamic militants at a gas plant deep in the Sahara, Algeria's state news service said Friday.
President Barack Obama plans to use a Bible that belonged to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as he takes his oath of office Monday.
BOSTON — Republicans in key U.S. states want to change the rules to make it easier for them to win elections after suffering back-to-back presidential losses.
An oddly calm -- and occasionally smiling -- Lance Armstrong ducked few questions before a national television audience on Thursday night, admitting that he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his storied cycling career.
Insomnia Cookies will open Monday in the Village, providing another late night sweet craving to the campus and the community.
ALBANY, N.Y. — The National Rifle Association said the secretive negotiations and lightning-fast passage of New York's tough new gun control laws squelched the powerful gun lobby's ability to mount opposition.
NEW ORLEANS — Inspectors taking the first-ever inventory of flood control systems overseen by the federal government have found hundreds of structures at risk of failing and endangering people and property in 37 states.
SAN FRANCISCO — Public nudity activists prompted a hearing scheduled for Thursday in San Francisco in which a federal judge will consider blocking a new city law requiring people to wear clothing.
