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  • 49ers coach to drive 500 pace car

    INDIANAPOLIS - San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh will drive the pace car at Sunday's Indianapolis 500. Harbaugh, who took the 49ers to the Super Bowl this year, is no stranger to Indy. He was the Colts' quarterback from 1994 to 1997 and is a principal at Panther Racing, which fields the two-car IndyCar team with drivers J.R. Hildebrand and Townsend Bell. "As a longtime racing ...

  • Safety enhancements planned after Ohio park falls

    BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The state Highway Patrol says up to 30 people have been injured in a crash between a commercial bus and a car on Interstate 75 in northwest ...

  • N. Ind. ambulance plant with 165 workers closing

    ELKHART, Ind. (AP) - The new owner of a northern Indiana factory that builds ambulances has decided to shut it down, eliminating 165 jobs.SJC Industries has notified the state that it will start terminating employees from the Elkhart factory in July as it completes production work there.The decision to close the Elkhart factory comes two weeks after Allied Specialty Vehicles bought SJC ...

  • I learned some tough lessons Anthony Weiner launches comeback with bid to become New York Mayor

    Ex-congressman Anthony Weiner whose career imploded in a rash of raunchy tweets two years ago said in a YouTube video announcement that he is running for mayor of New York City. He had said last month he was considering entering the ...

  • Ind. ambulance plant closes

    ELKHART, Ind. (AP) - The new owner of a northern Indiana factory that builds ambulances has decided to shut it down, eliminating 165 jobs. SJC Industries has notified the state that it will start terminating employees from the Elkhart factory in July as it completes production work there. The decision to close the Elkhart factory comes two weeks after Allied Specialty Vehicles bought SJC ...


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Movie Review

The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect

In his first dramatic role, MTV and tabloid mainstay Ashton Kutcher drops his male bimbo persona and delves headfirst into the gloom and doom of The Butterfly Effect, playing Evan Treborn, a tortured young man who finds that he has the inexplicable ability to travel back in time and alter the future. The title of the movie is derived from a popular simplification of chaos theory: If a butt ... ...

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  • Nominations accepted for service awards

    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is seeking nominations for the Governor's Service Awards. The award honors residents and volunteer groups for their work in a series of categories including corporate service, youth service and national service. Nominations are due by July 19. The winners will be recognized in October at the Governor's ...

  • Evansville moves toward IU Med site

    reports the city's Redevelopment Commission contracted with an architecture firm Tuesday to help evaluate potential downtown locations for the facility. IU intends to establish an Evansville site where medical students can complete all four years of their studies while having residency opportunities in the region. A two-year program now is housed at the University of Southern Indiana. The ...

  • Campwill go on despite loss of funding

    CHESTERTON, Ind. (AP) - Organizers of a summer camp for children of military families say the program will go on this summer at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore despite losing federal funding. Operators of Indiana Operation: Military Kids say they are confident they'll raise the $22,000 needed for as many as 60 campers ages 9-18. The Dunes Learning Center and the American Legion had raised ...

  • Mayor New bike rack is a work of art

    CARMEL, Ind. (WISH) - Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard says it looks like one of his city's new investments is already very popular. Carmel unveiled it, last Friday. He said he saw it over the weekend and "it was being used constantly." Brainard is referring to something that now occupies one parking space on Main Street in Carmel. The city invested $7,800 in a new bike rack that sits ...

  • Parking changes for 2013 racing season

    SPEEDWAY, Ind. (WISH) - In years past, track visitors could look for street parking in Speedway. Now folks can only park on Speedway streets with a parking pass, and only Speedway residents have access to those passes. The new restrictions aren't for the whole town; they run from 10th to 16th streets and from Main Street to Lynhurst Drive. Town Manager Barbara Lawrence said parking is ...

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