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  • Indiana office distributing $3.4 million from Americorps

    Indiana's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is giving out $3.4 million in federal grants to 18 groups to hire volunteers. The office announced Wednesday the money will pay for 479 full ...

  • Indiana agencies getting $137K for housing counseling

    Eight Indiana regional agencies will share more than $137,000 in federal funds to counsel Hoosiers on their housing needs and help them avoid foreclosures. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban ...

  • Woman 23 stabbed to death after dispute with panhandlers on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame

    LOS ANGELES – Three panhandlers were arrested Wednesday in the fatal stabbing of a young woman who was taking photographs on Hollywood’s star-lined "Walk of Fame," Los Angeles police said. Officers found the 23-year-old woman bleeding from multiple stab wounds near the busy intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Homicide ...

  • Ohio man to be sentenced in dying blink murder case

    MIDDLETOWN, Ohio – The U.S. secretary of education is traveling to Kentucky and Ohio to promote President Barack Obama’s proposal for a major expansion of early childhood ...

  • 3 behind genetically modified crops win World Food Prize

    DES MOINES, Iowa – The World Food Prize Foundation on Wednesday took the bold step of awarding this year’s prize to three pioneers of plant biotechnology whose work brought the world genetically modified crops. The private nonprofit foundation, which is in part funded by biotechnology companies, refused to shy away from the controversy surrounding genetically modified crops that organic ...


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Mouchette [DVD]

Mouchette [DVD]

It was French director Jean Renoir who said that great directors make the same film over and over again, which is his way of saying that committed artists are unable to tear themselves away from the themes they find most meaningful. It becomes part of the fabric of their artistry, the well f ... ...

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  • US scrambles as peace talks stall

    KABUL, Afghanistan – Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the militants.What provoked the mercurial Karzai and infuriated many other Afghans was a ...

  • Crude impromptu amputations left many without limbs after Bangladesh garment building collapse

    Bangladeshi garment worker Rikta, 27, who worked on the 3rd floor of Rana Plaza, poses for a portrait at Enam Medical College, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Rikta had her right arm amputated inside the rubble when she was rescued nearly 72 hours after the building ...

  • Fires set by Sumatran plantation owners create thick haze in neighboring Singapore

    SINGAPORE – Singapore urged people to remain indoors amid unprecedented levels of air pollution Thursday as a smoky haze wrought by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia worsened dramatically. Nearby Malaysia closed 200 schools and banned open burning in some areas. The Pollutant Standards Index, Singapore’s main measure for air pollution, surged to a record reading of 371, breaching ...

  • US education secretary set to visit Kentucky Ohio to push early childhood initiatives

    CINCINNATI – An Ohio man found guilty in a murder trial that hinged on a paralyzed victim blinking his eyes to identify his shooter is scheduled to be ...

  • Design for Eisenhower Memorial refined

    WASHINGTON – A federal commission charged with building a national memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower voted unanimously Wednesday to approve architect Frank Gehry’s design for a park near the National Mall, allowing the project to move forward over the objections of Eisenhower’s family. Gehry, whose Los Angeles-based firm was selected for the project in 2009, presented some ...

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