Muncie City Council members sat 6 feet apart Monday to maintain social distancing guidelines at the council’s first in-person meeting in almost two months.
Indianapolis’ mayor extended an overnight curfew into a second night Monday following violent weekend protests over the death of George Floyd and police treatment of African Americans that left behind widespread damage, including shattered downtown storefronts in Indiana’s capital.
Ball State President Geoffrey Mearns released a statement via Twitter on Monday describing his thoughts behind the death of George Floyd, the nationwide protests which followed and why he will be joining Ball State community members in a protest march on Thursday.
Countries around the world responding to the death of George Floyd and U.S. protests, lockdowns easing in Europe and Asia, Vatican City’s efforts to cut down waste and corruption, China’s reaction to U.S. action on Hong Kong and people in Hong Kong applying for U.K. passports make up this week’s five international stories.
An overnight curfew imposed by Indianapolis’ mayor after two nights of violent protest over the death of George Floyd and police treatment of African Americans was followed by a night of relative calm after a weekend that left the city with widespread damage downtown, a police spokesman said Monday.
In his daily community update video, Muncie Mayor Dan Ridenour spoke about the death of George Floyd and the nationwide protests surrounding it.
The Indianapolis mayor imposed an overnight curfew Sunday after two nights of violent protest over police mistreatment of African Americans that caused widespread damage downtown and included several shootings.
Over the past few days protests have continued in multiple cities nationwide in reaction to the death of George Floyd, including Indianapolis.
A rocket ship built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company thundered away from Earth with two Americans on Saturday, ushering in a new era of commercial space travel and putting NASA back in the business of launching astronauts from U.S. soil for the first time in nearly a decade.
After the NCAA voted to allow college athletics to resume this fall, they also released re-socialization guidelines that universities and colleges could refer to.
Under sunny skies around noon Saturday, protesters met in downtown Muncie on the corner of Main and Walnut streets to protest the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died Monday in police custody.
Wearing face masks and carrying reusable bags, customers walked around Minnetrista’s weekly farmers market May 23 — its third one since it reopened to the community as an essential business.
Thick smoke hovered over Minneapolis on Friday, hours after cheering protesters torched a police station that officers abandoned as a third night of violent protests flared over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer knelt on his neck.
Phase two of the demolition of LaFollette Complex continued this week at Ball State.
At Muncie Mayor Dan Ridenour's "Dream with Dan 2.0" online community forum held via Facebook Live Thursday, Carl Malone, superintendent for the parks department, talked about the status of the parks and provided updates on the opening dates for some of them.
Valerie Weingart’s great grandparents emigrated to the United States from Poland in the 1920s. In January 2021, she will return back to her ancestral home as a Fulbright scholar.
Muncie Community Schools' (MCS) Board of Trustees added two new principals to the district Tuesday during its school board meeting, according to an MCS press release.
Ball State's Board of Trustees voted unanimously Wednesday to approve plans for face-to-face instruction to begin on Aug. 24, as scheduled for the fall 2020 semester, according to a university press release and Ball State President Geoffrey Mearns' campus-wide email.
