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  • Space crunch forces food program to turn away help

    A Lafayette food program is so strapped for space that it's being forced to turn away food donations at least once a week. The Journal & Courier reports that the Food Finders Food Bank can ...

  • Ex-Indianapolis councilman sentenced in fraud case

    A former Indianapolis City-County Council member was sentenced to 27 months in prison with three years on supervised release after pleading guilty to fraud ...

  • Olympians among 500 Festival Parade celebrity line-up for 2013

    INDIANAPOLIS - The IPL 500 Festival Parade kicks off Saturday, May 25 at noon in downtown Indianapolis. In addition to previously announced WNBA Champion Indiana Fever as Parade Grand Marshal and The X-Factor winner Tate Stevens as the Parade's opening entertainment, US Olympians Shawn Johnson, Jordyn Wieber and Tyler Clary, Foreigner, Eddie Money, Florence Henderson and Jim Nabors, are ...

  • Indiana Pacers game plan team up to cool off the Heat

    Roy Hibbert, left, is the centre of attention on an Indian Pacers team that has reached the NBA Eastern Conference finals without the benefit of a superstar. They now face the trio of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh along with the rest of the defending champion Miami ...

  • Ex-councilor gets prison in fraud scheme

    INDIANAPOLIS - A former Indianapolis City-County councilman has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for conspiring to defraud an investor out of $1.7 million. Paul Bateman, 58, was sentenced Monday to 27 months in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud. Authorities began investigating the now-defunct Russell Foundation in 2008 after the organization, which listed its mission as ...


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Movie Review

The Trial [DVD]

The Trial [DVD]

The Stranger is often referred to as Orson Welles' least personal film, and judging by the work itself, that is an apt description. A solid piece of postwar genre work about a Nazi hiding in bucolic small-town America, The Stranger is not unique enough to stand out from the crowd, especially not in the manner that Welles' great masterpieces stand out. As critic James Agree wr ... ...

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  • Cops seek ex-school food service worker

    MONROE COUNTY, Ind. - A former Monroe County middle school food service employee is wanted by the authorities after they said she stole taxpayer money. On Monday, the State Board of Accounts released an audit that demanded Beth Ann Deckard repay $8,117.65 for malfeasance, as well as $2,476.70 in additional audit costs incurred by the state. Deckard was a food service employee responsible for ...

  • Home leveled by explosion

    SCIO, Ohio – Authorities said a house in a small eastern Ohio village was leveled by a large explosion while the family that lived there was at church. Firefighters said the explosion Sunday morning in the village of Scio in Harrison County could be heard and felt miles away. Debris from the blast flew across the street into neighbors’ yards. Nobody was hurt. WTOV-TV ...

  • 2 children dead in condo fire

    INDIANAPOLIS – Authorities said two children have died and four other people were injured in a fire at an Indianapolis condominium building. Indianapolis Fire Department spokesman Jason Kistler said 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 ...

  • Lilly study 1 in 5 Alzheimers patients misdiagnosed

    Nearly one in five patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease doesn’t actually have the memory-sapping malady, according to a new study sponsored by Eli Lilly and Co. The study results, which will be released Monday afternoon, are part of Indianapolis-based Lilly’s campaign to get the federal Medicare program to pay for use of its imaging agent Amyvid, which received U.S. ...

  • Ex-councilor Bateman sentenced to 27 months in prison

    Paul C. Bateman Jr., a former Democratic city-county councilor, was sentenced on Monday to 27 months in prison for his part in defrauding an Indianapolis physician of $1.7 million. Bateman, 58, pleaded guilty in January to 13 counts of money laundering and fraud related to the scheme. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Tonya Walton Pratt also ordered Bateman to serve three years of supervised ...

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