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  • Graduation request for Taylor Swift

    BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Matthew Gaines has cerebral palsy, but that has not stopped him from graduating next week, and it's not stopping him from making a very special request. The California boy is a huge Taylor Swift fan. "I was talking to him about graduation and asked him what he would want more than anything, and he said 'I'd love Taylor Swift to walk me down the aisle for ...

  • Girl dies from pain patch overdose

    INDIANAPOLIS - A 12-year-old girl in Missouri died of a Fentanyl overdose after she unknowingly put a used painkiller patch on her leg. Destiny Spitlerfound a used pain patch in the trash that her grandmother had used to manage her back pain. Spitler put the patch on her leg like a sticker. She went to bed and never woke up. "It's primarily a respiratory depressant. It knocks them out. ...

  • Thunderstorms forecast this afternoon

    Thunderstorms in forecast Northwest Ohio is likely to get the worst of it as thunderstorms rumble into the region tonight and Wednesday, the National Weather Service said ...

  • Fla. Man killed in I-69 accident

    HAMILTON CO., Ind. (WISH) - Indiana State Police is investigating a single vehicle accident that killed a Florida man. Police say Henry Michael Marchetta, 53, of Winter Park, Fla., was driving a Volkswagon north on Interstate 69 near the 204 mile marker in the third of four lanes when the vehicle veered to the left, struck a concrete barrier and came to rest against the highway wall. Marchetta ...

  • DPW to invest $92M in infrastructure

    INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The Indianapolis Department of Public Works launched its 2013 construction season Wednesday. Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard and other officials gathered at the site of the Fall Creek extension trail. The trail will connect it to the Monon Trail and to Fort Harrison Park. Ballard said DPW will invest $92 million on infrastructure in 2013. "This is on top of well over a ...


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Movie Review

The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect

In his first dramatic role, MTV and tabloid mainstay Ashton Kutcher drops his male bimbo persona and delves headfirst into the gloom and doom of The Butterfly Effect, playing Evan Treborn, a tortured young man who finds that he has the inexplicable ability to travel back in time and alter the future. The title of the movie is derived from a popular simplification of chaos theory: If a butt ... ...

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  • Professor pushes construction changes

    TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - An Indiana professor is working to improve construction standards so that buildings can better withstand high wind loads such as those carried by this week's deadly tornado in Oklahoma. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Mechanical Engineering Professor Fred Haan has spent 15 years studying ways to build structures that can survive high winds. He hopes to establish ...

  • VA clinic official says works continues

    FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - An official from Fort Wayne's VA Medical Center says it is working to restore its reputation after problems caused it to suspend inpatient care last year. A crowd of about 50 people attended a forum held Tuesday evening by an American Legion task force visiting the clinic this ...

  • Ballard Shock disappointment over Indy Land Bank scandal

    It's been 24 hours since news broke of a Federal Bureau of Investigation raid at the City-County Building confiscating files from the Indy Land Bank program. The federal investigation also led to the ...

  • Tonight at 11pm State of Your Money

    You paid for it. Now the question is, where is it? Tonight at 11:00 pm, 13 Investigates has discovered the State of Indiana has thousands of items classified as lost or missing. Some of it is stuff ...

  • Mayor Ballard reacts to city FBI probe

    INDIANAPOLIS - After Tuesday's FBI probe into alleged corrupt business practices in the Department of Metropolitan Development, Mayor Greg Ballard reacted to the indictment of two city officials linked to the city's land bank program. Reggie Walton, 29, assistant administrator of the DMD, and John Hawkins, 27, senior project manager for the agency, were taken into custody Tuesday on ...

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