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Central Indiana deputy hits man who jumped from vehicleSep 02, 2011 12:00 am - TAYLORSVILLE, Ind. — Police in central Indiana say a man died after he jumped from a vehicle and was hit by a sheriff’s squad car. Police say 36-year-old Jeremy Daniels...
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Ill. Marine reserves train for AfghanistanSep 02, 2011 12:00 am - PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — About 100 Marine Corps reservists will start training this fall for a 10-month stay in Afghanistan in 2012. The (Peoria) Journal Star reports tha...
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Copper thieves taking power lines in NW IndianaSep 02, 2011 12:00 am - GARY, Ind. — A utility company says thieves have climbed utility poles and cut live electrical lines in order to steal hundreds of pounds of copper in a northwestern Ind...
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Freed slave town in SW Ind. gets attention boostSep 02, 2011 12:00 am - LYLES STATION, Ind. — A southwestern Indiana community that was founded by freed slaves in the 1840s expects its annual Labor Day weekend events will be busier than usua...
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Indy, Fort Wayne drivers among safest in the USSep 02, 2011 12:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS — An insurance company report ranks Fort Wayne as the 15th safest large U.S. city to drive in and Indianapolis the 46th safest. The report released Thursday...
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Prosser won’t sit on case involving his attorneySep 02, 2011 12:00 am - MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser will not hear a campaign finance case being argued next week by the attorney who represented him in a recou...
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NIU president aims for 30,000 enrollmentSep 02, 2011 12:00 am - DeKALB — Northern Illinois University officials hope to increase enrollment by 25 percent in less than nine years. In his annual State of the University speech, NIU Pres...
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Experts seek Great Lakes pathways for Asian carpSep 01, 2011 12:00 am - TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Not quite 5 miles long, Jerome Creek winds through farmland and Pleasant Prairie, Wis., about 35 miles south of Milwaukee. In some places, it’s na...
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Indiana economic development chief Roob steps downSep 01, 2011 12:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s economic development chief is leaving for the private sector after seven years with Gov. Mitch Daniels’ cabinet. Daniels said Thursday that Indi...
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Police: Mother in custody in deaths of 2 kidsSep 01, 2011 12:00 am - EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — Police say an East St. Louis woman suspected in the shotgun deaths of her two youngest children was arrested in Missouri after allegedly hitting t...