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  • State law change means Fishers becomes city in 15

    The booming suburban Indianapolis town of Fishers will become a city in 2015. Indiana's largest town said Tuesday that a change in state law taking effect July 1 means Fishers will elect its first ...

  • Indiana Toll Road rates increase for some July 1

    A 140-year-old covered bridge in northeast Indiana heavily damaged last fall when a too-tall semitrailer drove through it should be reopening to traffic ...

  • Pacers Lose Look Ahead

    MIAMI - This was surely the happiest, most optimistic losing locker room in the history of the NBA conference finals. The Pacers ended their season with a thud Monday, overwhelmed in their 99-76 loss to Miami at American Airlines Arena. Under ordinary circumstances this would have been an occasion to be embarrassed, perhaps depressed. But these aren't ordinary circumstances for the Pacers, ...

  • Pacers Hit Another Sweet Spot

    Back in October, just as training camp was beginning, I put the question to Donnie Walsh. Did the Pacers team heading into the season, one that was coming off a second-round playoff appearance, remind him of the teams of the late 1990s that reached the conference finals three consecutive years and the NBA Finals ...

  • Baked Alaska Unusual heat wave hits 49th state

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A heat wave hitting Alaska doesn't rival the blazing heat of Phoenix or Las Vegas, but to residents of the 49th state, the weather feels like a stifling oven - or a tropical paradise.With temperatures topping 80 degrees in Anchorage, and higher in other parts of the state, people have been sweltering in a place where few homes have air conditioning.The official ...


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Movie Review

Snatch

In Snatch, British writer/director Guy Ritchie follows up his successful independent crime caper Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) with more of the same: a story of comedic criminals who get in way over their heads brought to bombastic life with fast-cut editing, a funky soundtrack, and relentless energy. While Ritchie had worked with mostly unknowns in his debut feature, ... ...

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  • Teacher training gets poor marks

    WASHINGTON – The vast majority of the 1,430 education programs that prepare the nation’s K-12 teachers are mediocre, according to a first-ever rating that immediately touched off a firestorm.Released Tuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, the ratings are part of a $5 million project funded by major U.S. foundations.Education ...

  • Shovels turn at ex-mobsters digs

    NEW YORK – FBI agents with jackhammers and shovels were digging Tuesday under a New York City house once occupied by a famed gangster who inspired Robert De Niro’s character in the movie “Goodfellas.” James Burke, the late Lucchese crime family associate, is said to have buried victims in familiar places – including under the nearby saloon he ran. On Monday, FBI investigators ...

  • G-8 backs Syrian talks Assad exit not in declaration

    After more than a decade of war in Afghanistan, and nearly three years of sputtering and unsuccessful attempts at talks, the United States will open formal negotiations with the Taliban this week aimed at ending insurgent attacks, officials ...

  • US Taliban to launch talks

    WASHINGTON – After more than a decade of war in Afghanistan, and nearly three years of sputtering and unsuccessful attempts at talks, the United States will open formal negotiations with the Taliban this week aimed at ending insurgent attacks, officials said Tuesday. The new dialogue, with a Taliban delegation that U.S. officials said has been authorized by Taliban leader Mohammad Omar, ...

  • Scientists seek bomb that doesnt blow up

    The U.S. government’s sweeping surveillance programs have disrupted more than 50 terrorist plots in the United States and abroad, including a plan to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, senior government officials testified ...

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