Federal Judge Orders Former Mayor To Pay Millions
(Hammond, IN) -- A federal judge is telling former East Chicago Mayor Robert Pastrick and two others to pay more than 108-million-dollars to the city for his role in a "sidewalks-for-votes" scandal. ...Read More
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Indiana Man Executed In Texas
(Huntsville, TX) -- An Indiana man sent to death row for killing a sheriff's department sergeant has been put to death by the state of Texas. Authorities killed 31-year-old Joshua Maxwell Thursday evening after he was ordered to die for the death of Bexar County Sheriff's Sergeant Rudy Lopes in 2000 ...Read More
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Special Court Rules Vaccines Don't Cause Autism
(Undated) -- Vaccines containing a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal cannot cause autism on their own. That's the ruling handed down Friday by the special U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The ruling stems from the case of an Oregon family who claimed their son's regressive autism was caused by a vaccine ...Read More
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FCC To Announce Major High-Speed Internet Push
(New York, NY) -- A ten-year plan to make high-speed Internet America's number one means of communication will be presented to Congress on Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission. As it stands now, approximately one-third of Americans lack access to high-speed Internet service, either by choice or because the cost is too high ...Read More
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Author Talks About History of Daylight Saving Time
(Undated) -- The history of Daylight Saving Time involves war, energy and an early American who liked to sleep in. Most people in the U.S. will turn their clocks back an hour this weekend as Daylight Saving Time comes to an end ...Read & Hear More
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Four Arrested In Drug Raid At Tattoo Parlor
(Frankfort, IN) -- Four people are under arrest for allegedly dealing drugs from a Frankfort tattoo parlor. Indiana State Police arrested three adults and a juvenile Thursday afternoon at the Soul Convictions tattoo parlor for allegedly selling drugs from the business ...Read & Hear More
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