New tailgating rules no problem for football fans

Despite new tailgating rules, excise police and University police officers did not have any problems with Ball State football fans during Thursday's home game, Sgt. Matt Gaither said.



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Texas girl, 13, describes alleged sexual assaults

A 13-year-old Texas girl who authorities say was repeatedly sexually assaulted by 20 men and boys during a series of attacks two years ago cried Wednesday as a video of one of the encounters was played for jurors in the first case to go to trial.


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Woman gets 4 years for stealing Motorola secrets

CHICAGO - A federal judge sentenced a Chinese-born American Wednesday to four years in prison for stealing millions of dollars in trade secrets from Motorola, describing her as a soft-spoken, unassuming woman who carried out a "very purposeful raid" on the company in the dead of night.


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Hurricane Isaac, BP recall affect gas prices

As the end of the summer driving season approaches with Labor Day weekend, drivers throughout Indiana are experiencing higher gas prices with Tropical Storm Isaac damaging the Gulf Coast region.



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Ryan, GOP's budget man, takes convention spotlight

TAMPA, Fla. - Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan took his party's national convention spotlight Wednesday night as Republicans sought to turn the White House campaign back to the sluggish economy. He was accepting the vice presidential nomination at a gathering struggling for attention as Tropical Storm Isaac cast a pall from the nearby northern Gulf Coast.


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Woman gets 4 years for stealing Motorola secrets

CHICAGO - A federal judge sentenced a Chinese-born American Wednesday to four years in prison for stealing millions of dollars in trade secrets from Motorola, describing her as a soft-spoken, unassuming woman who carried out a "very purposeful raid" on the company in the dead of night.



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Yahoo fires bureau chief for Romney/blacks remark

NEW YORK (AP) - Yahoo News fired its Washington bureau chief on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he was caught on an open microphone saying that Mitt Romney and his wife, at the GOP convention in Florida while a hurricane was approaching Louisiana, were "happy to have a party with black people drowning."



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Colo. theater victim families question fundraising

AURORA, Colo.- Anguished family members of some of the Colorado theater shooting victims lashed out at a fundraising campaign Tuesday, saying it collected more than $5 million "using pictures and names of our murdered loved ones" but so far has given no more than $5,000 each to families facing bills for medical treatment, travel and other expenses from the attack.


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Isaac makes landfall in La.; Gulf Coast braces

NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Isaac made landfall in southeast Louisiana late Tuesday as Gulf Coast residents hunkered down behind boarded-up windows with stockpiles of food and water, and wind-driven rain lashed bayous and beaches. New Orleans calmly waited out another storm on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's seventh anniversary, hoping the city's strengthened levees will hold. -á


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Salmonella at Ind. farm matches outbreak strain

The Food and Drug Administration says salmonella found at a cantaloupe farm in southwestern Indiana matches the "DNA fingerprint" of the salmonella responsible for a deadly outbreak that sickened people in 21 states.






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