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Proceeds from car show will support programs for people who are blind, visually impaired.

State padlocked 6 sites in January, says move could save nearly $1 million a year.

The cost of parking is headed up at Indianapolis International Airport, where managers fighting the recession are looking for ways to make up lost revenue amid a double-digit decline in passengers and tons of cargo.

Lester Goodridge's family moved to Florida when he was 2, but he finds his way back to Indianapolis each year for Indiana Black Expo's Summer Celebration.

New Whiteland -- A New Whiteland man drowned Friday in Lake Monroe, a Department of Natural Resources official said.

Metro police have arrested a man accused of raping a woman in the parking lot of a Broad Ripple bar. Metro police said 27-year-old Corey Cole denied the charges but, thanks to DNA evidence,... Read more at www.WISHTV.com

Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," has died. He... Read more at www.WISHTV.com

The state Department of Health said Friday that a resident of Lake County in northern Indiana has died from complications related to the H1N1 influenza. Read more at www.WISHTV.com

Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., announced that he would vote for Sotomayor, calling her clearly qualified to serve on the Supreme Court. Read more at www.WISHTV.com

Hospitals are places where healing happens, but also death. At St. Vincent Hospital, TheraPets of Indiana helps families with both. Read more at www.WISHTV.com

State health officials say a Lake County resident is the second person in Indiana to die from the H1N1 flu.

City housing inspectors find more health hazards at an Indianapolis apartment complex.

INDIANAPOLIS -- A baby store that angered customers when it closed suddenly earlier this year will make refunds with profits from a court-approved liquidation sale.

A former county commissioner is sentenced for distributing methamphetamine.

Wimbledon runner-up Andy Roddick has withdrawn from the Indianapolis Tennis Championships next week, citing a right hip flexor injury.

Twelve Apollo astronauts, including first moonmen Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, attended Friday night's ceremony in which the crews were presented with the "Spirit of Flight" award.

Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority, died Friday.

The state Department of Health said Friday that a resident of Lake County in northern Indiana has died from complications related to the H1N1 influenza.

Notre Dame and Army will play the first football game at the new Yankee Stadium next year.

An Indiana woman spent the night on a sandbar in the Snake River after she missed her pullout site while kayaking.

Divers have recovered the body of a man who didn't resurface after jumping from a boat at the Paynetown State Recreation Area in Monroe County.

The former headquarters of ATA Airlines near Indianapolis International Airport could soon have a new owner.

Two men are in custody and being questioned for their alleged roles in the murders of three people at an eastside apartment complex last month.

Metro Police are looking for a man in the Broad Ripple area who impersonated a police officer and tried forcing a woman into his truck at knife point.

Downtown hotels and restaurants are preparing for the hundreds of thousands of visitors expected to arrive in the Circle City on Friday for the Indiana Black Expo Summer Celebration. People who don't have to worry about traveling are already enjoying themselves and looking forward to the weekend.

A Peru teen injured in a one-vehicle accident July 10 was listed in serious condition at the Children’s Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne Wednesday afternoon.

Many people are superstitious, but what about circus folk? Are there any particular rituals the Peru Amateur Circus performers have followed through the past 50 years to ensure a great show?

The Community Calendar will be published in the Peru Tribune each Friday. If you have an event you would like published, please bring or send it to Peru Tribune, Community Calendar, P.O. Box 87, Peru, IN 46970, or e-mail it to newsclerk@perutribune.com .

Peru Community Schools’ wellness program is reaping health dividends as well as keeping insurance premiums down. Superintendent Andrew Melin told the Peru School Board Monday a year ago 208 insured employees or about 48 percent of the employees participated in the wellness program.

Four Peru teenage males injured in a one-vehicle accident Friday night have all since been released from hospital care. A fifth occupant in the car, Trintyn J. Hayes, 16, Peru, was killed as a result of the internal abdominal injuries he’d sustained in the crash.

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Ivy Tech trustees met in Indianapolis Thursday to pass new tuition rates. But while tuition is going up, salaries are no ... Please log in to read the rest of this story.

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GREENTOWN — Surrounded by the signs and sounds of the annual Howard County 4-H Fair, there is an opportunity for fairgoers to step back in time to what Indiana was like before the Civil War.

With cool breezy weather conditions better suited for fall football, Friday night, a different type of athletic event took place at the Howard County 4-H Fair.

Kokomo’s housing glut may be one of the reasons a proposed manufactured housing subdivision failed to win Kokomo Plan Commission approval this week.

A group of southside homeowners want to review architectural plans for a proposed new library building, creating a potential new snag for the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library Board.

GREENTOWN — Howard County 4-H Fair Queen Shannon Williams won’t kiss just any pig. It takes the king of pigs — the grand champion barrow — to get a smooch from the fair queen, so she kissed Baxter Howell’s grand champion barrow, all for a good cause.

The troubled economy hasn’t been kind to the Paramount Theatre, already suffering from a lack of financial resources that has threatened to end some of its programming.

Two men associated with Ball State University’s journalism and communications program, Steve Bell and Earl Conn, remember Walter Cronkite as a standard against which all other journalists were measured.

As a local dairy fought to keep its product in city schools and retain jobs linked to that business, its boss remained hopeful despite a tough economy, a competitive market, and a grass-roots, local business structure.

The Highland High School band won the 2009 Spirit of Sound Marching Band contest Friday at Muncie South High School.

Every Friday around lunchtime until September, Central Christian Church at 923 Jackson St. fires up the grill and puts out a spread that’s there for the taking.