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  • Sanctions against Penn State were necessary NCAA tells judge

    The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s sanctions against Pennsylvania State University for its role in the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal were necessary to protect the integrity of intercollegiate sports, a lawyer for the Indianapolis-based association argued in court Monday. The sanctions, while extraordinary, were necessary to preserve the character of college football, ...

  • HHGregg earnings sink on declining sales

    HHGregg saw a big drop in earnings in its latest quarter on decreased sales, lower profit margins and higher advertising expenses, the Indianapolis-based retailer said Monday. The company reported earnings of $9.9 million, or 31 cents per share, for the fiscal fourth quarter, which ended March 31. That compared with $53.6 million, or $1.45 per share, in the same period a year ago. Last ...

  • Colts take DE Werner with No. 24 pick in NFL draft

    Colts general manager Ryan Grigson ignored the times and watched Bjoern Werner's game tape. What he saw was a football player who plays fast -- certainly fast enough to outweigh concerns over his 40-yard dash times. So when ...

  • Israel returns fire following shooting from Syria

    JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli military says gunfire from Syria hit an Israeli patrol on the Golan Heights overnight, damaging a vehicle and prompting the troops to fire ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • Myanmar Muslims jailed for killing Buddhist monk

    MEIKHTILA, Myanmar -; Six Muslim men and one minor have been sentenced to jail terms ranging from life to two years in prison for involvement in the killing of a Buddhist monk during sectarian violence in central ...

  • 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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