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The Monroe County sheriff's office says the bodies of Parker Gilliland-Wampler and 46-year-old Carla Gilliland were found inside their burning home Thursday morning in Ellettsville, eight miles northwest of Bloomington.

This interview with Steven J. Ray, an Associate Scientist in the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, discusses his work with a new form of mass spectrometry for analyzing complex samples.

SOUL PICNIC PRODUCTIONS, presents Melissa Hammans in BACK TO THE GARDEN: The Music of Joni Mitchell , Carole King , and Laura Nyro on August 1st and 2nd, 2014 at Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, Bloomington, IN.

CIVIL UNION, BROKEN WATER, ARCTIC FLOWERS Channeling early Sub Pop and New York art rock, Olympia's Broken Water creates hazy, perfectly minimal, trance-inducing rock music.

Indiana University has started a new office aimed at helping more students graduate on time at all the school's campuses across the state.

Harbor Music, a program of Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, will present the internationally celebrated pianist, Edmund Battersby in Down East Maine on July 17th.

Curses, Foiled AgainPolice accused Jeremiah Scales of selling synthetic marijuana from his girlfriend's house in Bloomington, Ind., after a nearby sign announcing "Drugs This Way" alerted them.

On Thursday USA Today reported on what has been the next shoe waiting to drop for a long time: the first gay divorces: BLOOMINGTON, Ind.

From photographs of historical leaders and their inspirational messages to the children's construction paper or poster board art work, the yellow-painted walls within the tiny room of the McCormick Boys and Girls Clubs are almost completely covered, floor to ceiling.

A simple letter from Indiana University led its students to reduce borrowing by far more than the national average.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. a?? The mood was festive as Judge Valeri Haughton spent the morning of June 26 presiding over marriage ceremonies for gay couples who rushed to the Monroe County courthouse here after a federal judge struck down Indiana's ban on same-sex marriage.

Ind. judge grants same-sex divorce The case reveals the challenges for same-sex couples should they seek a divorce in Indiana.

A southern Indiana man has been sentenced to three years of probation after pleading guilty to using an ax to smash windows and damage computers at a Planned Parenthood clinic.

This course serves as an introduction to the basics of freeze drying as it relates to the pharmaceutical, biological and diagnostic industries.

"We lived in another city from 1983 to 1990, but all that time, we couldn't wait to get back to Bloomington," Eileen, 74, told The Herald-Times .

Jaci Bickett, who will be an incoming freshman at Henderson County High School, won the girls 13-14-year-old division in the pole vault Thursday at the USATF USA Youth Outdoor Championships in Bloomington, Indiana.

<![CDATA[BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -- A southern Indiana county where crews are busy building the Interstate 69 extension has responded to residents' noise complaints by limiting how much noise crews can make at night. The Monroe County Board of Commissioners approved a new county ordinance Friday restricting the amount of noise that can be made between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., including vehicles noises. Noise from the highway's construction is allowed during the day, but for any work after 10 p.m., a special permit is needed from the board of commissioners. County highway director Bill Williams tells The Herald-Times (http://bit.ly/1sR63YF ) the permit portion of the ordinance mimics once already in place in the city of Bloomington. The ordinance includes a provision allowing the sheriff's department to issue a citation to those who violate the ordinance.

Indiana State Police and the Vigo County Sheriffs Department say that a car driven by 19-year-old Michael L. Riddle of Avon, was eastbound on US 40 and attempted to make a left turn into a bank and crossed the path of another car driven by 87-year-old Laurette Bellamy of Bloomington, IN.

Officials say a car being driven by 19-year-old Michael Riddle of Avon, Ind. was driving eastbound on US 40. Riddle, making a left hand turn went into the path of a car being driven by 87-year-old Laurette Bellamy of Bloomington, Ind.

Workers cut limestone into blocks at the Indiana Limestone Company, June 20, 2014 in Oolitic, Ind.