Hunger Banquet raises awareness for poverty
January 18, 2012The words "disgust," "grateful" and "guilty" consumed the thoughts of Ball State students who attended the first university-sponsored Hunger Banquet.
The words "disgust," "grateful" and "guilty" consumed the thoughts of Ball State students who attended the first university-sponsored Hunger Banquet.
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles investigators found a human hand Wednesday in the Hollywood wilderness park where a severed head in a plastic bag was discovered by dog walkers, and the search continued for other body parts.
WASHINGTON — Raising the stakes on a bitter election-year fight with Republicans, President Barack Obama on Wednesday rejected a Canadian company's plan to build a U.S.-spanning, 1,700-mile pipeline to carry oil across six U.S. states to Texas refineries.
NEW YORK — A surprisingly strong report on the housing market and the prospect of more cash for the International Monetary Fund to fight off a financial crisis powered stocks Wednesday to their highest close since last summer.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A western Indiana man killed himself by slamming his car into a stone wall, apparently because he was distraught over the death of his girlfriend's 21-month-old son in his care, a coroner said Wednesday.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana House Republicans on Wednesday approved $1,000-a-day fines against boycotting Democratic legislators who gathered in the Statehouse Rotunda with labor union supporters rather than show up to debate a divisive right-to-work bill.
Though Wuhnurth has moved away from Muncie, the brand is still local this weekend at Be Here Now.
ROME — The first victim from the Costa Concordia disaster was identified Wednesday — a 38-year-old violinist from Hungary who had been working as an entertainer on the cruise ship.
NEW YORK — Greed on Wall Street set a new record, federal authorities said Wednesday as they unveiled a massive insider trading case charging a hedge fund co-founder with engineering a trade that earned a staggering $53 million in profits.
After three weeks of break during the holidays, students come back to school in January to cold weather, less light and the pressure to keep up New Year's resolutions.
Mailing students educational material about alcohol poisoning awareness for their 21st birthday was among the many ideas suggested by the Student Government Association during their first meeting of the semester.
Firefighters from Station 2 explain the brotherhood of their crew.
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Jon Huntsman abandoned his once-promising campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on Monday and endorsed Mitt Romney as the man "best equipped to defeat Barack Obama."
A bill that caused a Democrat walkout more than a year ago is expected to come to a vote today.
ROME — Italy's cruise liner tragedy turned into an environmental crisis Monday, as rough seas battering the stricken mega-ship raised fears that fuel might leak into pristine waters off Tuscany that are part of a protected sanctuary for dolphins, porpoises and whales.
The continuous fight for unity and its progress were brought up to remind the community throughout an annual memorial for Martin Luther King Jr. held Monday night at the Christ Temple Global Ministries in Muncie.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Online shoe seller Zappos.com says a hacker may have accessed the personal information of up to 24 million customers.
Austin Rich speaks in a drawl that makes one think of the Deep South. His voice has a twang to it that matches the vocal notes found is parts of Texas or Georgia that masks his Muncie heritage. Rich takes pride in his heritage, and his family. On his wrist, crawling up part of his forearm is a tattoo of flames. And on his shoulder is a tattoo of a firefighter talking to his son while walking into heaven.
Despite rainy weather, students and staff joined together to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr by participating the annual Unity March.
Some areas around Muncie are experiencing low water pressure due to a water main break downtown Monday morning.
