Making minors dump out their 24 pack of beer, a jug of Captain Morgan and other liquor is just another traffic stop on third shift as a University Police Department officer.
CHICAGO - Former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and a group of University of Chicago graduate students he now teaches are reaching across the state line to help the battered steel town of Gary, Ind.
NEW ORLEANS - A surprise ruling by a federal appeals court that lets the Army Corps of Engineers off the hook for paying compensation for Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic flooding isn't going over well on the streets of New Orleans.
SPOKANE, Wash. - A human finger found inside a fish at Idaho's Priest Lake has been traced to a wakeboarder who lost four fingers in an accident more than two months earlier.
-á NEW YORK - U.S. consumer confidence jumped this month to the highest level since February, bolstered by a brighter hiring outlook.
FRANKFORT, Ky. - An anti-abortion activist who's running for Congress plans to air an especially graphic ad this week in Kentucky and Indiana showing a dismembered fetus and images of dead Christians and Jews. Legally, there's little the television station owners can do to stop them.
The Ball State greek community councils are teaming up to participate in National Hazing Prevention Week by passing out anti-hazing pledge cards and showing a film about hazing on campus.
-á With model penises, condom races and bingo, safe sex education is the topic of conversation during the "Safety in the Heat of the Moment" event this evening.
TRENTON, N.J. - Amtrak is going to break the speed limit this week in the Northeast Corridor. -á
NEW YORK - Apple Inc. said Monday that it sold more than 5 million units of the iPhone 5 in the three days since its launch, fewer than analysts had expected. Apple shares were down $6.60, or 0.9 percent, at $693.49 in morning trading. The shares are still close to their all-time high of $705.07, hit Friday as the phone went on sale in the U.S., Germany, France, Japan and five other countries. The sales tally is a record for any phone, but it beats last year's iPhone 4S launch only by a small margin. Apple said then that it sold 4 million phones in the first three days. Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White expected Apple to sell 6 million to 6.5 million iPhone 5s in the first three days. He said the shortfall was largely due to limited supply. White said the phone was sold out at 80 to 85 percent of the U.S. Apple stores he and his team contacted Sunday evening, and the ones that were still available were mostly Sprint models. Online delivery times have stretched to three to four weeks. The phone will go on sale in 22 more countries on Friday and in more than 100 countries by the end of the year.
SEATTLE - Washington state's first "zombie bees" have been reported in Kent.
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's culture minister said Monday that his country will boycott the 2013 Oscars in the wake of the anti-Islam video made in the United States that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.
To discuss the anti-Muslim film "Innocence of Muslims" and to address misconceptions students may have about Islam, the Muslim Student Association and the Religious Studies Club held a panel.
PUEBLO, Colo. - Mitt Romney led a chorus of Republican criticism of the administration's foreign policy on Monday, accusing President Barack Obama of minimizing the recent killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya as a mere "bump in the road" rather than part of a chain of events that threatens American interests.
The Ball State Wakeboard Club placed second overall in the Collegiate Wakeboard MidWest Regional this weekend, sending the team to the 2013 national competition in Las Vegas.
INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana's top child-protection official resigned Monday amid questions of whether he violated his agency's code of conduct through his involvement in a child neglect case involving his grandchildren.
NEW YORK - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appealed Monday to Muslims to show "dignity" and not resort to violence as they protest an anti-Islam film produced in the United States.
LONDON - Global health officials are closely monitoring a new respiratory virus related to SARS that is believed to have killed at least one person in Saudi Arabia and left a Qatari citizen in critical condition in London.
CHICAGO - The presidential candidates are criticizing each other in new television commercials aimed at winning working-class voters who could help swing the election, pitting Republican Mitt Romney's wealth against the loss of American jobs to China on President Barack Obama's watch.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - A New Jersey lawmaker wants towns to have a say in the filming of reality TV shows within their boundaries before a Situation develops. -á
