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  • Music teacher honored given car

    FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - North Side High School music teacher Ed King II owns his dream car. On Friday night, after hundreds of donations, King's friends and family gave him the keys to his 2011 black Ford Mustang. King was surprised with his new ride at the end of the school's 40th annual Evening of Jazz concert. "I hope my wife doesn't think I'm having a midlife ...

  • Elwood Coach accused of inappropriately touching player

    An Elwood High School baseball coach is under investigation for touching one of his players. The Anderson Herald Bulletin reports that Elwood Police Chief Sam Hanna confirmed that Charles "Chuck" ...

  • Summer trips stay close to home

    NEW YORK – This summer, high rollers are flying to lavish hot spots for their vacations. The rest of us are driving to less luxurious places like nearby campgrounds. The good news: At some U.S. campgrounds these days, you get live bands, air guitar contests and chocolate pudding slip ’n’ slides. Americans’ plans for summer travel mirror the current state of the economy. Rising home ...

  • Flags a symbol of hope in Oklahoma

    MOORE, Okla. – The first thing Kevin Gibson did after returning to his house, torn apart by a powerful tornado Monday, was pull an American flag and a temporary flagpole from the corner of his partially standing garage. Neighbors forlornly picking through the rubbish of their lives stopped to watch Gibson’s nephew, Sean Pontius, stick the pole into the ground and hoist the Stars and ...

  • Judge rules sheriff uses racial profiling

    PHOENIX – A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America’s self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Hispanics in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people. The 142-page decision by U.S. District Judge Murray Snow in Phoenix backs up allegations that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe ...


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Movie Review

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

There is a real sense of giddy pleasure in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl that is all too often missing from big-budget Hollywood spectacles. In an era marked by Matrix-stylized seriousness or Charlies Angels-like postmodern overload, Pirates of the Caribbean pulls off a neat balancing act between nostalgic adventure and self-aware humor. Forget ... ...

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  • Parents held in 2nd faith-healing death

    PHILADELPHIA – After their 2-year-old son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009, faith-healing advocates Herbert and Catherine Schaible promised a judge they would not let another sick child go without medical care.But now they’ve lost an 8-month-old to what a prosecutor called “eerily similar” circumstances. And instead of another involuntary manslaughter charge, they’re now charged ...

  • Heros invincible but old comic isnt

    MINNEAPOLIS – It’s considered the Holy Grail of comic books: Action Comics No. 1 from 1938, featuring the debut of Superman. And David Gonzales found one mixed in with old newspapers insulating a house he was renovating in a small town in Minnesota.Gonzales did some research that confirmed the comic with a cover showing the Man of Steel holding a car over his head was valuable, though ...

  • East Indiana man gets 37 years in prison in son’s death

    BLOOMINGTON – Indiana University President Michael McRobbie is recommending tuition and fee increases of 1.75 percent for Indiana residents in each of the next two years at the school’s Bloomington ...

  • Big labor feels bitten by Obama health plan

    Johnson & Johnson is developing what could eventually be breakthrough treatments for depression and pain, and it’s aiming to apply for approval of more than 10 new medicines by 2017, executives said Thursday during a review of the health ...

  • Holiday World shutters train ride

    SANTA CLAUS. – The ride is over for a miniature train, the last of the original attractions at the Holiday World amusement park that opened in southern Indiana in 1946. Maintenance workers found over the winter that the locomotive and coaches of the ride – called the Freedom Train since the 1980s – were in worse condition than expected and couldn’t be repaired, park ...

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