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  • Severe thunderstorm watch in effect for southern Indiana counties

    A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect until 10:00 pm for several counties south of Indianapolis. The following counties are under the watch: BARTHOLOMEW, BROWN, CLAY, DAVIESS, DECATUR, GIBSON, ...

  • Police Dad rode bike drunk with toddler

    INDIANAPOLIS - An Indianapolis dad was arrested Monday night after reportedly taking his toddler on a drunken bike ride. Indianapolis Metro Police Department officers were called to the scene of a domestic dispute, where a woman told them her 3-year-old daughter's father, Major Jones, had taken the girl and left. Police said they found Jones, 53, on a bicycle holding his daughter, wobbling ...

  • US Supreme Court suspends attorney in fen-phen suit

    CINCINNATI – The U.S. Supreme Court has suspended prominent Cincinnati class-action attorney Stanley Chesley from practicing law before the court after his Kentucky disbarment. The Supreme Court order Monday said Chesley has 40 days to prove why he shouldn’t be disbarred from appearing before the justices. The Kentucky Supreme Court disbarred Chesley in March for unethical conduct in ...

  • 3 accused of enslaving mother daughter for 2 years

    CLEVELAND – Authorities in Ohio have arrested three people on charges of enslaving a mentally disabled young mother and her daughter over a two-year period. Federal agents and Ashland police said Tuesday the three forced the woman to do housework, threatened her and the girl with violence and fed their pets better than the victims. The break in the case came when Ashland police, checking ...

  • Guilty verdict in fire that killed young children

    JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. – Jurors have found a southwestern Indiana man guilty of setting a fire that killed his fiancee’s two children. The jury returned its verdict against Jeffrey Weisheit after deliberating about 90 minutes Tuesday. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Weisheit was convicted of murder and arson in the April 2010 deaths of 8-year-old Alyssa Lynch and 5-year-old ...


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Shrek Forever After

Shrek Forever After

In the great and ever-expanding pantheon of unnecessary sequels, Shrek Forever After deserves a special place, especially since the previous three films had formed a nicely self-contained arc of character development in which the perpetually grumpy green ogre of the ... ...

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  • Dunes beach opens after unknown substance scare

    PORTER, Ind. – The Coast Guard says it can’t find any sign of shiny metallic flakes in Lake Michigan that led to beach closures. Coast Guard Seaman James Connor said a helicopter brought in from Traverse City, Mich., to look for the substance so far has spotted only pollen blooms. Beaches at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and Indiana Dunes State Park were closed Monday after ...

  • Dozens die in attack on Iraq mosque

    BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi authorities say a suicide bomber has blown himself up amid worshippers in a Shiite mosque in Baghdad, killing eleven people and wounding ...

  • Unknown substance closes beaches

    PORTER, Ind. (AP) - The Coast Guard says it can't find any sign of shiny metallic flakes in Lake Michigan that led to beach closures. Coast Guard Seaman James Connor says a helicopter brought in from Traverse City, Mich., to look for the substance so far has spotted only pollen blooms. Beaches at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and Indiana Dunes State Park were closed Monday after ...

  • Site to mark freeing of last slaves

    PRINCETON, Ind. (AP) - Gibson County residents will gather this week to mark the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation as part of a Juneteenth celebration. Lyles Station Historic School will host a three-day observance that will commemorate the freeing of slaves in Galveston, Texas. Stan Madison of the Lyles Station Historic Preservation Corp. tells ...

  • Police get real-world training

    MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - Members of the Muncie Police Department are getting some high-tech firearms training without leaving City Hall. A crew from Indiana Simulator Systems visited the department last week to give officers a chance to test their responses without risk of ...

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