Low-income apartment complex approved near Village
July 3, 2012The Muncie City council approved a rezoning ordinance that will allow a new 80-unit apartment complex to be constructed near the village in a 7-1 vote on Monday.
The Muncie City council approved a rezoning ordinance that will allow a new 80-unit apartment complex to be constructed near the village in a 7-1 vote on Monday.
RALEIGH, N.C. - Andy Griffith, who made homespun Southern wisdom his trademark as the wise sheriff in "The Andy Griffith Show" and the rumpled defense lawyer in "Matlock," died Tuesday. He was 86.
REYNOLDS, Ind. - Authorities say a 9-year-old old girl has died from injuries she sustained in a northern Indiana crash that also killed her grandparents and older brother. -á
WASHINGTON - Utility crews untangled downed power lines and tree limbs Sunday, working to get the electricity turned back on for millions of people facing a second day of 100-degree temperatures without modern conveniences like air conditioning and refrigeration.
With sweltering heat slated to continue throughout the coming week, more than 1,000 Delaware County residents still remain without electricity as a result of severe weekend weather. The American Red Cross has opened cooling stations in the county with plans to keep them available as needed. -á
SANFORD, Fla. - A bond hearing took more a tone of a trial Friday when both sides in the Trayvon Martin murder case presented what sounded like opening statements with the defense quizzing witnesses and trying to poke holes in the prosecution's evidence.
INDIANAPOLIS - One of the biggest surprises of the announcement that Gov. Mitch Daniels would take over as Purdue University president in January was his pledge to stop campaigning and commenting on politics until then.
A scorching drought that prompted "burn bans" in most counties across Indiana probably won't be helped much by recent light rain, a weather service forecaster says.
WASHINGTON - Utility crews untangled downed power lines and tree limbs Sunday, working to get the electricity turned back on for millions of people facing a second day of 100-degree temperatures without modern conveniences like air conditioning and refrigeration.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Melted bowling balls in the front yard were among the strange sights that met C.J. Moore upon her return Sunday to her two-story home, now reduced to ashes by the worst wildfire in Colorado history.
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's voters appeared poised to bring the old guard back to power on Sunday, a dozen years after the former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party lost the presidential seat it held for more than seven decades in a contest that proved the country was finally a democracy. -á
WASHINGTON - Republican congressional leaders said Sunday that voters - not the Supreme Court - will have the final word on President Barack Obama's health care law come November. And they are betting that the law's unpopularity will be enough to drive Democrats from power.
A series of new Indiana state laws went into effect July 1 as the Regular Session of the General Assembly ended. Indiana residents will have a few new guidelines to follow.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - Jack Jacobs can proudly - and truthfully - say he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his valor in Vietnam. After a recent Supreme Court ruling, anyone else is free under the First Amendment to make the same claim, whether it's true or not.
WASHINGTON- Congress has passed a massive measure that will salvage some 2.8 million jobs and shield college students from sharply higher interest rates on college loans. The bill would also shore up the federal flood insurance program.
AMARILLO, Texas - A Saudi man accused of buying chemicals online and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction was found guilty Wednesday in federal court in Amarillo. -á
Rapid progress is continuing on Ball State's new greenhouse with construction scheduled to tentatively begin in September, according to university officials. -á
SAN FRANCISCO - Google helped create a world brimming with digital distractions for people spending more of their lives tethered to the Internet. It's a phenomenon that seems unlikely to change so Google is working on a way to search for information, read text messages, watch online video and post photos on social networks without having to fumble around with a hand-held device.
The sweltering heat and lack of rain that has plagued counties all across the state has certainly not avoided Muncie and Delaware County.
Early last week, the Institute for a Competitive Workforce released a state-by-state report card evaluating public postsecondary education, in which Indiana scored an overall C, scoring lower than both Illinois and Michigan.
