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<![CDATA[BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -- Actress Meryl Streep can add an honorary doctoral degree from Indiana University to her collection that includes three Academy Awards. University President Michael McRobbie presented the honorary degree to Streep during a ceremony Wednesday. Streep was visiting the Bloomington campus to give IU's filmmaker lecture. The Herald-Times reports (http://bit.ly/1pcC2AC ) Streep told the audience that her advice to young women is to not worry so much about their weight, saying girls spend too much time thinking about it. She said young men and women should realize that "what makes you strange" is your strength because that's what gets you noticed. Streep's husband, sculptor Don Gummer, grew up in Indianapolis and studied at IU's art school.

The fomenters of fermentation at Upland Brewing Co. figure they've produced more than 100 distinct potions since 1998.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following information was summarized from the records of city, county and state police, fire and hospital agencies.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Students on the IU Bloomington will be treated to a very special guest Wednesday.

The Institute for Defense and Business and SAS participated on a panel at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business at their 2nd Kelley Forum on Business Analytics in Bloomington, Indiana on April 4, 2014.

Flood Warning issued April 14 at 10:42AM EDT expiring April 18 at 4:00PM EDT in effect for: Parke, Vermillion, Vigo Flood Warning issued April 15 at 11:02AM EDT expiring April 16 at 11:01AM EDT in effect for: Jackson, Lawrence, Washington Freeze Warning issued April 15 at 10:04AM EDT expiring April 16 at 10:00AM EDT in effect for: Daviess, Greene, ... (more)

A Bartholomew County man faces molestation and attempted abduction charges after police say he tried to abduct to different children at the Columbus Walmart store.

Upgrades to bring State Road 37 between Bloomington and Martinsville up to higher standards for Interstate 69 have been contracted.

Jeffrey Miller, 52, of Bloomington, was driving north on State Road 37 approaching the intersection at Smith Valley Road about 3:10a p.m. and didn't apply the brakes.

According to a probable cause affidavit, Bloomington Police were contacted by a Bloomington resident saying 29-year-old Phillip Wampler-Schmidt, who lives in the 1500 block of Second Street in Bedford, was selling meth.

Mass spectrometry is a powerful analytical tool. Yet researchers and instrument makers continue to push the limits of its resolving power.

'You have to find a situation where you allow the best processes for people to listen ... where you are mixed with people who might agree with you or not,' Michael Wolf said.

BLOOMINGTON, IN Livingston's Temple B'nai Abraham not only reaches out to its congregants, who are away at college by sending packages in celebration of various holidays and important moments - its Rabbi, Clifford Kulwin, also takes several road trips via car and airplane to the Northeast, Midwest and South, throughout the year, where and visits ... (more)

Bloomington police say they arrested a couple when they admitted to concocting a report of an attempted robbery after a failed drug deal Tuesday afternoon.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Indiana University says it will raise the minimum wage for its employees by $1 to $8.25 an hour beginning July 1. The university announced Thursday the increase will raise the pay of approximately 8,750 university employees across the state.

Toledo will return to action for the first time in 26 days when it travels to Bloomington, IN for Indiana's NYX Hoosier Invitational.

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Faculty and graduate students from the Indiana University School of Education in Bloomington and Indianapolis presented during more than 140 sessions of the American Educational Research Association conference concluding today in Philadelphia.

A home has a hole in it after a 29-year-old driver lost control of his truck and smashed through a wall.