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  • Tuesday marks two years since the Indiana State Fair's deadly stage rigging collapse, with surviving victims and the fair still dealing with the aftermath.
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  • Administrators at one of Indiana's largest school districts will no longer recognize schools based on results of the state's A-F grading system
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  • Nearly three dozen cats crammed into four cages were left outside the Human Society of Hobart.
  • Nearly three dozen cats crammed into four cages were left outside the Humane Society of Hobart.
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  • Investigation into Mt. Baldy sinkhole begins
  • Federal officials were examining a northern Indiana sand dune that collapsed last month, burying a 6-year-old Illinois boy under 11 feet of sand for more than three hours.
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  • A central Indiana motorist who assaulted a 67-year-old neighbor who had told him to slow down has been charged with drunken driving and battery.
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  • James Proctor, a 36-year-old Gary man, was shot to death early Saturday during an apparent domestic dispute involving a woman who was taken into custody.
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  • An Indiana couple face charges for what the local sheriff is calling the worst case of neglect hes ever seen.
  • An Indiana couple face charges for what the local sheriff is calling the worst case of neglect he's ever seen.
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  • Gov. Mike Pence is expected to attend an event in Michigan City later this month honoring those involved in rescuing a 6-year-old boy who became trapped under 11 feet of sand when a section of dune collapsed.
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  • Allegiant Air no longer flies out of Gary-Chicago International Airport.
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  • United Way of Allen County spokeswoman Molly Link says the survey shows the number of homeless veterans in a nine-county area increased from 32 last year to 96 this year.
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  • Northern Indiana police say a 21-month-old boy who accidentally stepped on a Great Dane's paw was seriously injured when the dog lunged and mauled his face.
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  • Woman returns lost $4,000
  • A woman who really could have used the $4,000 in cash she found in a Merrillville, Indiana parking lot was with her young daughter at the time and the decision about what to do with the cash was clear.
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  • Midwest retailer Meijer Inc. plans to hire more than 9,000 new employees in five states in the coming months.
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  • A northwest Indiana woman who lost $4,000 got it back thanks to a woman who thought returning the cash was the ''right thing to do.''
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  • Police investigating the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old central Indiana boy say he was accidentally shot by a 10-year-old relative who found the gun in a family safe.
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  • An Indianapolis-based liquor store chain wants to intervene in a federal lawsuit filed by gas stations and other businesses seeking to overturn a law banning them from selling cold beer.
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  • Police investigating the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old central Indiana boy say it appears he was shot by an underage relative.
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  • Indiana's health commissioner says the state's high infant mortality rate is "horrible" and needs to be addressed.
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  • The Princeton Review has released its annual list of top party schools, and DePauw University again finds itself in the top 20.
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  • First responders honored for dunes rescue
  • Almost two dozen firefighters were honored in Michigan City for taking part in the rescue of boy who was buried in sand for almost four hours.
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  • First responders honored for dunes rescue
  • Almost two dozen firefighters are being honored in Michigan City, Indiana Monday night for taking part in the dramatic rescue of Nathen Woessner when he was buried in sand for almost four hours.
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  • First responders honored for dunes rescue
  • Almost two dozen firefighters are being honored in Michigan City, Indiana Monday night for taking part in the dramatic rescue of Nathen Woessner when he was buried in sand for almost four hours.
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  • A northwestern Indiana dairy farm that's a top tourism destination is debuting a new attraction that allows visitors to tour a sprawling building filled with pregnant hogs and litters of piglets.
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  • Michigan City officials planned Monday to honor nearly two dozen Michigan City firefighters for helping to rescue 6-year-old Nathan Woessner when he was buried in the Indiana Dunes last month.
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  • A research firm says Indiana gained 8,020 manufacturing jobs in the year ending April 2013, marking the second straight year the state has added manufacturing jobs.
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  • The pilot of the plane that crashed into a Columbus home last month has died.
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  • An 84-year-old man from northeast Indiana has died from injuries sustained in a crash on Interstate 69 in Fort Wayne.
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  • A sculpture celebrating Gary's melting pot history that was one of the highlights of the northwestern Indiana city's centennial celebration seven years ago is falling apart.
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  • Boston Marathon bombing victim on the mend
  • A northwest Indiana woman badly injured in the Boston Marathon bombings talked exclusively to ABC 7 for the first time since returning home to Highland, Indiana.
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  • Boston Marathon bombing victim on the mend
  • A northwest Indiana woman badly injured in the Boston Marathon bombings talked exclusively to ABC 7 for the first time since returning home to Highland, Indiana.
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  • Authorities say two workers were briefly trapped under debris in the partial collapse of a restaurant building under construction in Terre Haute.
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  • Police say a man told officers he was acting in self-defense when he fired the shots that wounded four people outside a nightclub in the Indianapolis entertainment area of Broad Ripple.
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  • The father of a northern Indiana man who was fatally stabbed in 1989 says he's never given up his quest for justice.
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  • An Indiana woman is OK after she fell asleep while driving and woke up to find her car upside down in a retention pond.
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  • An 8-year-old red panda is now at its new home in Evansville's zoo, giving it one of the animals for the first time.
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  • The Indiana Department of Environmental Management has completed its assessment of air pollution in northwestern Indiana's highly industrialized and heavily traveled Lake and Porter counties.
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  • Four developers have submitted offers for reusing the former College Football Hall of Fame building in downtown South Bend.
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  • Dr. Benjamin Porter
  • A LaPorte dentist was arrested during a traffic stop on the Indiana toll road after police found heroin.
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  • A newspaper vendor was shot to death near a Gary, Ind., gas station. Police say the case is domestic, and they have identified the alleged shooter.
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  • A 4-year-old girl was shot in the head when she dashed in front of her 8-year-old brother while he was target shooting, according to Indiana authorities.
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  • Three weeks after an Ind. sand dune collapse at Mt. Baldy, the park service plans to expedite the process to determine how 6-year-old Nathan Woessner ended up buried under 11-feet of sand.
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  • A leading Indiana business organization says it doesn't expect to get involved in what could be a contentious fight next year over whether to add a gay marriage ban to the state constitution.
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  • The Indianapolis Fire Department says three people were killed when a bus carrying teens from a church camp crashed on a busy thoroughfare near Interstate 465.
  • The youth pastor of an Indianapolis church and his pregnant wife were among the three dead in this weekend's bus crash, a church leader said Sunday.
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  • The Indianapolis Fire Department says three people were killed when a bus carrying teens from a church camp crashed on a busy thoroughfare near Interstate 465.
  • The most seriously injured survivor of the Indianapolis bus crash that killed three people has been moved out of an intensive care unit.
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  • A man charged with killing a romantic rival in northeastern Indiana more than 20 years ago has been extradited from India to face murder charges.
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  • The Indianapolis Fire Department says three people were killed when a bus carrying teens from a church camp crashed on a busy thoroughfare near Interstate 465.
  • The Indianapolis Fire Department says three people were killed when a bus carrying teens from a church camp crashed on a busy thoroughfare near Interstate 465.
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  • Fire and then explosions destroyed a trucking company in northwest Indiana, which thick black smoke seen for miles.
  • Fire and then explosions destroyed a trucking company in northwest Indiana, which thick black smoke seen for miles.
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  • Indiana school districts are preparing to resume classes without a key piece of information they usually have to determine where to place students.
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  • A 16-year-old who brought an explosive device to a northern Indiana county fair for the thrill of seeing people's reaction won't face adult charges.
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  • Larry Bird
  • Indiana State University will be welcoming back Larry Bird in November to dedicate a 15-foot-tall bronze statue of him outside the school's basketball arena.
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