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6 Fort Wayne women charged in welfare fraud schemeFeb 19, 2013 7:40 am - FORT WAYNE, Ind. — The director of Fort Wayne’s federal housing program and five other women have been charged in an alleged welfare fraud scheme. Betty L. Anderson face...
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Halvorson upset over SuperPAC moneyFeb 18, 2013 6:07 pm - Former Congressman Debbie Halvorson is blasting another top candidate in the race to replace former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. over SuperPAC money. New York Mayor Mi...
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Congressman calls for voter intimidation probe in CiceroFeb 18, 2013 5:57 pm - Congressman Luis Gutierrez and a candidate for Cicero town president are calling for a probe of voter intimidation allegations. Gutierrez asked for the investigation Mo...
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High-stakes fight over soybeans at high courtFeb 18, 2013 7:47 am - WASHINGTON — Vernon Hugh Bowman seems comfortable with the old way of doing things, right down to the rotary-dial telephone he said he was using in a conference call wit...
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Ind. man charged with felony after kicking catFeb 17, 2013 7:00 am - FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A Fort Wayne man has been charged with animal cruelty after police say he repeatedly kicked a stray cat. Allen County prosecutors filed an animal crue...
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Ind. police probe child molester's prison deathFeb 17, 2013 7:00 am - NEW CASTLE, Ind. — Indiana State Police are investigating the death of a convicted child molester who was found unconscious at the bottom of a staircase at the state pri...
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Some police contracts allow drinking before workFeb 15, 2013 5:44 pm - Police officers in various Chicago-area communities have contracts that allow them to have a few drinks before they hop into their squad cars and patrol the streets, acc...
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IU seismographs detected N. Korea’s nuclear blastFeb 14, 2013 7:59 am - BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — An Indiana University seismologist says equipment IU operates as part of a Midwestern earthquake-monitoring network detected this week’s nuclear test...
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Ind. bill targets undercover video `vigilantes’Feb 13, 2013 7:05 am - INDIANAPOLIS — A Senate panel has approved a bill that would make it a crime to take photographs or shoot footage at Indiana’s farms and businesses without the owner’s p...
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E. Ind. nurse charged with medical `interference’Feb 13, 2013 7:02 am - MUNCIE, Ind. — An eastern Indiana nurse is facing charges alleging that she failed to give a nursing home patient who later died daily injections of medication that prev...