Muncie Community participates in local Heart Walk
September 10, 2012Heart disease and strokes brought people together from across East Central Indiana on Saturday in Worthen Arena.
Heart disease and strokes brought people together from across East Central Indiana on Saturday in Worthen Arena.
As Chicago teachers walk the picket lines, their union and the city's school district resumed negotiating Monday over a new contract that includes bigger salaries, more benefits, revised job security measures and revamped teacher evaluations. Here is a breakdown of the issues on the table:
CHICAGO - The Chicago Teachers Union announced Sunday night that it will go on strike Monday morning for the first time in 25 years after contract talks with the school district failed over issues including pay, benefits and job security.
NEW YORK - With its huge reflecting pools, ringed by waterfalls and skyscrapers, and a cavernous underground museum still under construction, the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center is an awesome spectacle that moved and inspired some 4.5 million visitors in its first year.
NEW CASTLE, Ind. - Customers at a diner in an eastern Indiana city were evacuated shortly before a fire destroyed the building. -á
University police department officers were one of 16 teams that competed in the 11th annual Indiana SWAT Challenge from Thursday through Saturday, using teamwork to complete the competition.
INDIANAPOLIS - Utility crews are working to restore power to hundreds of Indiana homes and businesses still in the dark following severe thunderstorms that brought high winds and heavy rains to the state. Friday night's storms cut power to more than 5,400 Indianapolis Power & Light Co. customers, but by Saturday afternoon only about 420 remained without power. The powerful storms ahead of a cold front that ushered in sharply cooler air forced the cancellation of scores of Friday night high school football games. In southwestern Indiana, Vectren Corp. reported that more than 7,000 of its customers in three counties faced power outages following the storms. But by Saturday afternoon, just 900 customers remained without power. Duke Energy reported about 400 customers without power as of early Saturday afternoon.
NORMAL, Ill. - A 14-year-old male student is in custody after shots were fired Friday morning into a classroom ceiling at a central Illinois high school, police and school officials said.
INDIANAPOLIS - Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan will be in Indianapolis later this month seeking support from Hoosiers.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - President Barack Obama emerged from the euphoria of his party's convention Friday and ran smack into the harsh reality of a bleak new report on the nation's unemployment outlook. Republican rival Mitt Romney pounced on the disappointing jobs figures as fresh evidence that it's time to put someone new in the Oval Office.
INDIANAPOLIS- Indiana won't turn its lottery over to a private company if bidders don't meet the state's high standards, the executive director of the Hoosier Lottery said Friday.
INDIANAPOLIS - A new television series premiering next week will follow the lives of nine Indiana parole officers and their parolees.
CHICAGO - Setting foot in a hospital again, Emily and Mike Jordan couldn't help but feel anxious.
INDIANAPOLIS - Local health officials say an Indianapolis resident has died from the West Nile virus, the third confirmed Indiana death this year from the mosquito-borne illness.
Darden Restaurants violated federal labor laws by underpaying thousands of servers across the country at Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Red Lobster and other eateries, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of the workers. .
Ball State's Board of Trustees authorized a plan Wednesday that will set the wheels of eminent domain in motion.
The rainfall across Indiana from the remnants Hurricane Isaac was enough to relieve the worst of the state's drought conditions.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - President Barack Obama goes before the Democratic National Convention and the nation on Thursday for a capstone speech designed not just to persuade undecided voters to swing his way but to put fire in the belly of his supporters.
President Barack Obama goes before the Democratic National Convention and the nation on Thursday for a capstone speech designed not just to persuade undecided voters to swing his way in a tight election but to put fire in the belly of his supporters and get them to come out on Election Day.
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, will be buried at sea.
