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  • Charges are pending against a northwest Indiana man accused of attacking an off-duty police officer outside Planned Parenthood.
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  • Two Occupy protesters are suing sheriff's officers in a central Indiana county who they say shoved one of them roughly into a wall and arrested them when they entered the county courthouse.
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  • Police officers shot a man outside of the Planned Parenthood in Merrillville, Indiana.
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  • Authorities say a man has been found fatally inside a southern Indiana home.
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  • A former Indianapolis City-County Council member has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for his role in a scheme to use $1.7 million intended for charity to buy personal luxuries.
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  • Authorities say two children have died and four other people injured from a fire at an Indianapolis condominium building.
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  • Police in Fort Wayne say investigators don't know why a man who wasn't the one being sought by an officer pulled a gun and fired several shots.
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  • A telephone is seen in this undated file photo.
  • Tuesday is the next deadline to sign up for Indiana's Do Not Call registry.
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  • An Indiana waitress is smiling from ear to ear thanks to a rather generous tip.
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  • A county surveyor from northwestern Indiana has been indicted on federal charges alleging he used public employees and resources to run his re-election campaign.
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  • James Malecek will spend 145 days in prison for throwing the fatal punch that killed a Chicago teenager at a beach party.
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  •  State police say a dozen people - including five children - are injured after a school bus carrying special needs children rolled over on a highway near Indianapolis.
  • One of the children hurt when school bus rolled over on a highway near Indianapolis says he just held on tight.
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  • A major Indiana hospital system is starting to remove all sugary drinks from cafeterias, vending machines and gift shops.
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  •  State police say a dozen people - including five children - are injured after a school bus carrying special needs children rolled over on a highway near Indianapolis.
  • State police say a dozen people - including five children - are injured after a school bus carrying special needs children rolled over on a highway near Indianapolis.
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  •  State police say a dozen people - including five children - are injured after a school bus carrying special needs children rolled over on a highway near Indianapolis.
  • A school bus carrying severely disabled students home from a trip to the zoo rolled over Thursday on a highway near Indianapolis, injuring a dozen people, including five children, state police said.
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  • A member of the Indiana National Guard was arrested at the Valparaiso Armory. Staff Sergeant Paul Young is accused of threatening to blow up the home of a commanding officer.
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  • James Malecek, 19, pleaded not guilty in the beating death of Kevin Kennelly, 17, who died during a fight on a Northwest Indiana beach over the Fourth of July weekend.
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  • Police say a 7-year-old boy was critically injured when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver in Indianapolis.
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  • 17 puppies
  • Seventeen puppies that were picked up on a Porter County, Indiana, road will have new homes.
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  • More than a dozen puppies that were picked up on a Porter County, Ind., road will be put up for adoption.
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  • 17 puppies
  • Seventeen puppies that were picked up on a Porter County, Indiana, road will have new homes.
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  • In this file photo, a car enthusiast looks at a 1948 Tucker Torpedo on display at the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Las Vegas.   (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
  • An Australian service station owner and filmmaker has hit the jackpot in Indiana as he searches the globe for rare automobiles made by a Michigan company.
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  • File image of a beer cooler in a store.
  • A trade group representing convenience stores and gas station owners is suing the state after failing to get the Legislature to change an Indiana law allowing only liquor stores and bars to sell cold beer.
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  • Indiana Department of Natural Resources officials say a report that a bull shark has been found in the Wabash River is just another fish tale.
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  • Residents of the small southern Indiana town of Waynesville are taking steps to protect themselves following the weekend shootings of four people.
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  • 17 puppies
  • More than a dozen puppies that were picked up on a Porter County, Ind., road will be put up for adoption.
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  • Vernon Hugh Bowman, a 75-year-old Indiana soybean farmer, speaks with reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
  • The Supreme Court said Monday that an Indiana farmer violated Monsanto Co.'s patents on soybean seeds resistant to its weed-killer by growing the beans without buying new seeds from the corporation.
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  • Work is continuing to clean up a diesel fuel leak that has kept an Indianapolis roadway closed for five days.
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  • Police in southern Indiana say a 39-year-old man died after an explosion while he and another man were making methamphetamine inside a home.
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  • A coroner is releasing the names of three of the four people found shot to death in a southern Indiana home.
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  • A stranded kayaker was rescued from Lake Michigan near Pastrick Marina in East Chicago, Ind.
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  • Federal officials are teaming up with Indianapolis police and prosecutors to combat gun violence that has surged in five high-crime areas of the city.
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  • Indiana wildlife officials could remove the peregrine falcon from the state's endangered species list this summer after what wildlife officials say has been a successful recovery.
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  • Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has signed a bill that will provide a $100 million state loan to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for planned improvements.
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  • A southwestern Indiana woman has been arrested after state police say she acted as an unlicensed midwife for an infant who died the day after she was born.
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  • In this  file photo, former Indiana governor Otis Bowen is acknowledged by Gov. Mitch Daniels during the State of the State address to a joint session of the Legislature at the Statehouse in Indianapolis.   (AP Photo/AJ Mast, File)
  • Former Gov. Otis Bowen is being buried this afternoon following a private funeral in his northern Indiana hometown.
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  • A judge has sentenced a man to 45 years in prison for fatally shooting another man in a rural central Indiana field where they had met to fight over a woman both were dating.
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  • A Bloomington couple is using pigs to transform their yard from an overgrown jungle into a manicured oasis.
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  • Beth Roche is from Highland, Indiana. She and her husband were in Boston to cheer on daughter Rebecca who was running. As Rebecca crossed the finish line, Beth turned to walk away and the first bomb exploded right in front of her.
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  • Residents of Munster, Indiana, have the future of their town's schools in their hands. School officials say if a property tax increase fails, students will not receive a quality education.
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  • An elderly man rescued from a burning home in Indiana has died.
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  • State caps on property taxes and a decreasing tax value could force a northern Indiana school district to ask voters to approve a referendum to help fix aging facilities.
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  • Rebecca and Beth Roche
  • The northwest Indiana mother whose leg was severely injured in the Boston bombings says she looks forward to walking again after at least one more round of surgery.
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  • A man accused in the murder of an elderly Indiana woman was denied bond Friday.
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  • A suburban man has been charged with the killing of a northwest Indiana businesswoman after her body was found last month in the parking garage of an Indiana casino.
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  • Mary Austgen
  • Police in Griffith, Indiana, are questioning a suspect in connection with the murder of Mary Austgen. Her body was found last month in the parking garage of a casino in Gary.
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  • The National Weather Service has cancelled the tornado watch for Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton and Porter counties in northwest Indiana.
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  • A seventh-grade student is under arrest in Valparaiso for bringing a large knife to school.
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  • One person is dead and another injured after the dumpster they were
sleeping in   was emptied into a trash truck in Terre Haute, Indiana.
  • One person is dead and another injured after the dumpster they were sleeping in was emptied into a trash truck in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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  • File Image: South Shore Air Show in Gary, Indiana
  • This year's South Shore Air show in Gary, Indiana, has been cancelled because of lack of funds.
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