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1 hr ago | Agri Marketing

Indiana Governor Cancels State's Incentives To Proposed New Fertilizer Facility

INDIANA GOVERNOR CANCELS STATE'S INCENTIVES TO PROPOSED NEW FERTILIZER FACILITY May 20, 2013 IndyStar.com reports: The fate of a controversial $1.8 billion fertilizer plant in Southern Indiana remains unclear after Gov.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Mike Pence, US Governors, World News, Pakistan, Posey County, IN

2 hrs ago | WNDU-TV South Bend

Hoosier teens "bee bound"

Thirteen-year-old Sean Ives is from Crown Point. The seventh grader is also one of 12 Indiana students that will compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee next week Among that group is a Granger seventh grader, Margaret Flaherty Peterson .

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2 hrs ago | Evansville Courier & Press

NOTEBOOK: Indiana not likely to tighten alcohol law

That amounted to the largest one-month decrease in the unemployment rate in more than one year.

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Related Topix: Indiana Government, Fort Wayne, IN

6 hrs ago | Sunherald.com

Polygraph world’s close ties spark accusations of favoritism

After all, his supervisor at the Texas Department of Public Safety had worked for his company’s competitor and had approved his outside job.

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10 hrs ago | Journal Gazette

Better care for children

In this April photo, teacher Lindsey Landis plays with 1-year-old Haelynn House at The Learning Community, the IPFW-affiliated child-care center.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Mike Pence, US Governors

Sun May 19, 2013

The Indianapolis Star

Quiet tornado season a year after 14 die in Indiana

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- A little more than a year after tornadoes ripped across southern Indiana, killing 14 people and damaging or destroying hundreds of homes and businesses, the state has seen a relatively quiet tornado season.

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Related Topix: South Bend, IN, Weather, Terre Haute, IN

The Indianapolis Star

'Hoosiers' screenwriter Angelo Pizzo, cinematographer Fred Murphy to do IU commercial

A reprise of "Hoosiers" it isn't, although this week's planned filming of a commercial on the Indiana University-Bloomington campus does feature two of the moviemakers who elevated Indiana hoops to the silver screen.

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Related Topix: Indiana University Bloomington

The Indianapolis Star

Biz Buzz: Hoosier Lottery's new vendor failing to meet Illinois goals

Northstar Lottery Group, which was hired in 2011 to manage the Illinois Lottery, will miss its revenue target by $180 million, according to the newspaper's analysis of the company's performance during the first 10 months of the fiscal year.

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Related Topix: Lottery, Indianapolis, IN

Journal Gazette

More buses cited for safety violations

Many school buses across Indiana are on the road despite serious safety violations that could put thousands of students at risk, according to an investigation by an Indianapolis television station.

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Related Topix: Education Etc.

Daily Journal

Woman's body recovered from S. Indiana quarry

Officers say the body of 37-year-old Jamie Fleenor was recovered about 5:30 a.m. Sunday after The Lawrence County Sheriff's Department received a report that a female had fallen into a quarry Officers say Fleenor was reported to have been walking a trail at the quarry pit next to an 80-foot-high cliff when she lost her footing, slipped over the ... (more)

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Indiana Law Blog

Ind. Gov't. - 'Bloomington city services attract paroled sex offenders'

This is an important story on many levels, from today's subscription-only Bloomington Herald-Times . Here are some quotes from Jon Blau's lengthy story: When Perry Township Trustee Dan Combs took a recent call from an agent at the Bloomington parole district, he was faced with what he interpreted as an ultimatum.

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Journalgazette.net

12% of bills reach Pence

Now that the 2013 legislative session has wrapped - including gubernatorial action on all the bills - it's time to review the term by the numbers.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Representative Marlin Stutzman, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Governors, Martin O'Malley

Journal Gazette

Attracting eateries

But fast food - which is sold on dozens of street corners around town - isn't enough to draw people to the city's core.

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Related Topix: Fort Wayne, IN, Theater, Arts

Sat May 18, 2013

Indianapolis Business News

Records - May 20, 2013

Luxury Lawns Inc. , 5357 Old Barn Drive, 46268, chapter 7 reorganization, liabilities: $115,954; assets: $766. John 21:5 Inc.

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Related Topix: Indianapolis, IN, Brook, IN, Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Fort Wayne, IN

Evansville Courier & Press

Wet, cold spring weather delays corn planting

Photographs by KEVIN SWANK / Courier & Press Miller Brothers, a farming business from Chandler, Ind., were working in a field along Indiana 66 west of Libbert Road on Thursday morning as area farmers work to get the fields fertilized and planted.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Chandler, IN, Posey County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Weather

The Indianapolis Star

Editorial: Indiana's peculiar liquor laws may drive you to drink

So a motorist in Indiana can pull up outside a package liquor store, plunk down a few bucks for a six-pack of cold beer, hop back into the car and speed off for home — or farther down the highway.

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Related Topix: Indiana Government, Drink, Wine, Opinion

Journal Gazette

I-469 lane restrictions updated

Lane restrictions on southbound Interstate 469 between the Maplecrest Road and U.S. 24 exits will continue until approximately May 24, the Indiana Department of Transportation announced.

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Related Topix: Indiana Government

The Indianapolis Star

Carmel welcomes 12 new vendors to Saturday's opening day of Market

A year after setting a record in attendance with 61,000, the Carmel Farmers Market cranks up the action again Saturday for its 14th year.

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Cybergrass

3rd John Hartford Memorial Festival Brings Life to an American Music Icon

Preparations are underway for the 3rd Annual John Hartford Memorial Festival being held in the hills of southern Indiana at the Official Bean Blossom & Bill Monroe Music Park in beautiful Brown County, May 30-June 1. This is the third of what the festival's creator, John Hotze, and co-promoter, Dan Dillman, hope to see as an event to preserve the ... (more)

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Related Topix: Bluegrass, Bill Monroe, Glen Campbell, Country

Fri May 17, 2013

TwinCities

Police: Indiana mom died after killing 2 children

A woman who thought her family was being stalked by "demonic presences" killed her two children in a southern Indiana creek before she also drowned, police said Friday.

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Related Topix: Suicide

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