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  • NBA Mind games between LeBron James and Indiana Pacers ahead of Eastern Conference finals

    NBA champions, are on the verge of a third consecutive NBA finals berth, but the Indiana Pacers plan to spoil the repeat bid in the Eastern Conference final that starts in Miami on Wednesday. The Heat, sparked by regular season Most Valuable ...

  • Deadly twister retraces path of 1999 storm

    A fire burns in the Tower Plaza Addition in Moore, Okla., after Monday’s devastating tornado, which leveled whole neighborhoods and killed at least 51 people. The storm was tentatively classified as an EF4 on a five-point scale and followed closely to the path of a similarly powerful storm in ...

  • Monster tornado slams Oklahoma City suburbs

    Monday’s powerful tornado in suburban Oklahoma City loosely followed the path of a killer twister that slammed the region in May 1999.The National Weather Service estimated that the storm that struck Moore, ...

  • Indiana unlikely to adopt lower DWI rule

    INDIANAPOLIS – Some key Indiana legislators don’t expect the state to adopt a federal safety board’s recommendation that the threshold for drunken driving be cut nearly in half. The National Transportation Safety Board said in its proposal last week that drunken-driving deaths could be reduced if states lowered the 0.08 blood-alcohol level for driving to 0.05 percent. State Sen. Tom ...

  • 2 kids killed in condo fire

    INDIANAPOLIS – Authorities say two children have died and four other people injured from a fire at an Indianapolis condominium building. Indianapolis Fire Department spokesman Jason Kistler says a woman was taken to a hospital in critical condition from the blaze Monday morning in the community of Cumberland on the city’s east side. Two men and a boy went to hospitals in stable condition. ...


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Movie Review

United 93

United 93

In 1937, Delmore Schwartz wrote a short story called In Dreams Begin Responsibilities in which the first-person narrator dreams that he is in a theater watching his parents courtship unfold as an old Biograph silent film. Knowing that his parents relationship will turn sour and that, in his w ... ...

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  • Aides knew of IRS audit but kept Obama in dark

    WASHINGTON – White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Obama’s spokesman disclosed Monday, expanding the circle of top officials who knew of the audit beyond those named earlier.But McDonough and the other advisers did not tell Obama, ...

  • Obama pledges to back Myanmar

    WASHINGTON – President Obama on Monday told Myanmar’s president during a long-awaited White House meeting that he appreciates the Asian leader’s efforts to lead the country on its sometimes difficult path to democracy and assured him of U.S. support.Obama spoke as he sat in the Oval Office with former general Thein Sein, who became the first president of Myanmar to visit the White House ...

  • Indiana flood gauge idled in federal cuts

    Some key Indiana legislators don’t expect the state to adopt a federal safety board’s recommendation that the threshold for drunken driving be cut nearly in ...

  • Thousands of military sex victims treated

    WASHINGTON – New government figures underscore the staggering long-term consequences of military sexual assaults: More than 85,000 veterans were treated last year for injuries or illness linked to the abuse, and 4,000 sought disability benefits.The Department of Veterans Affairs’ accounting, released in response to inquiries from The Associated Press, shows a heavy financial and emotional ...

  • Tornado Watch issued until 6 a.m. for central Indiana

    A massive tornado touched down in Oklahoma, about an hour south of Oklahoma City, on Monday afternoon. There are numerous reports of injured people trapped in ...

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