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  • Family displaced by northwest Indianapolis house fire

    A near northwest side family has been displaced by a house fire early Wednesday morning. The fire broke out in the basement of a home in the 1800 block of Dexter Street. Firefighters say the blaze ...

  • Former Indy attorney sentenced for theft from estate

    Former Indianapolis attorney David F. Rees has been sentenced to four years of home detention and two years of probation after pleading guilty to stealing more than $270,000 from an estate that he was charged with managing. Rees, 73, drafted the will and served as executor for the estate of the late Benjamin Roberts. Eight years after Roberts' death, $400,000 turned up missing, and ...

  • 2013 Caroline Symmes Celebrity Softball Challenge

    The Pacers season just recently concluded, but four players brought their game to Victory Field Thursday night for the fifth annual Caroline Symmes Celebrity Softball Challenge presented by the Tony Stewart Foundation. For the third consecutive year, Pacers center Roy Hibbert co-hosted the event with Indianapolis Colts defensive end Robert Mathis. In front of an estimated 9,500 fans, the game ...

  • Landlords tell residents to take down American flag

    You'll be seeing a lot of American flags displayed in the coming weeks as we approach the Fourth of July. It's your right to fly the flag at your home. There's a law that says so, but if you live ...

  • 5 people taken to hospital after crash

    INDIANAPOLIS - Five people were taken to the hospital after a two-car accident Tuesday night, officials with the Indianapolis Fire Department said. A Ford Excursion and a Chevrolet ZS4 were involved in the crash near North Dequincy Street and Kessler Boulevard just before 9 p.m. Two people, one from each vehicle, had to be extricated byIFDofficials. Of the four passengers in the Ford, one person ...


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Wall Street [DVD]

Wall Street [DVD]

Given that Oliver Stone made Wall Street directly on the heels of winning the Best Director and Best Picture Oscars for Platoon (1986), it is not surprising that the two films are quite similar thematically, so much so that they make intriguing companion pieces despite their ... ...

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  • Fishers first mayoral election set for next year

    Fishers residents will elect their first mayor a year earlier than expected due to a change in state law that establishes Jan. 1, 2015, as the date the town becomes a city. Voters will choose partisan candidates for mayor, city council and city clerk in the May 2014 primary-typically the most-contentious election in the overwhelmingly Republican community-and return to the polls in ...

  • Indiana county allowed to develop fertilizer plant

    The state won't stand in the way of a fertilizer plant that a Pakistan-based group is developing in southwestern Indiana despite reservations expressed by Gov. Mike Pence, his office said Tuesday. Pence directed the Indiana Finance Authority not to block Posey County from backing the Midwest Fertilizer Corp. plant. The move comes after the governor on May 17 withdrew the state's ...

  • Girl 16 drowns in Harrison County river

    A teenager drowned Tuesday in a river in southern Indiana. Conservation officers say the 16-year-old girl and a friend were swimming near a dam on the Blue River in Milltown when she was overcome by ...

  • IPS superintendent search down to 8

    INDIANAPOLIS - The Indianapolis Public Schools system is on track to have a new superintendent chosen by the end of the month, the president of the school board said. The IPS school board announced they have narrowed the list of superintendent candidates down to 8 and will be conducting interviews with those semifinalists this week. The board hopes to narrow down the candidates and have three ...

  • IU baseball gears up for must win

    OMAHA (WISH) - The IU baseball team find themselves in a must win situation. They play Oregon State Wednesday night; the loser heads home. The Hoosiers lost to Mississippi State 5-3 Monday night, sending them to the losers' bracket, but they're confident in their ability to respond. "We know that we are capable of coming back," said Indiana head baseball coach Tracy Smith. ...

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