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Animal Control Looking for Stray Dogs Ahead of Super Bowl
Wibc News
Jan 26Animal Control officers combed Indianapolis streets for dangerous dogs ahead of Super Bowl week to prevent bites, attacks and traffic crashes during the festivities. Indianapolis Animal Care and Control workers said public safety is their first priorit... »
ISU purchases letters from former socialist leader
WTHR Local News
Jan 26Indiana State University is adding to its collection of items from the life of socialist leader Eugene Debs. The school has bought 20 letters the Terre Haute native wrote to his nephew. The library's special collections chair, Cinda May, says one lette... »
Train derails west of downtown
WISH TV
Jan 06Several freight train cars derailed near the old GM plant in downtown Indianapolis Friday afternoon. »
Crashes Shut Down Interstates
Wibc News
Jan 02Light snowfall and frigid temperatures made roads slick and hazardous Monday afternoon, prompting multi-car crashes that shut down Interstates 70 and 465 in Indianapolis. As of 1:30pm, all eastbound lanes of I-70 were closed at Harding Street on the ne... »
Five die in small-plane crash on NJ highway
WTHR Local News
Dec 20Five people died when a small plane headed for Georgia crashed on one of the New York City area's busiest highways. Authorities say they were three adults and two children. It wasn't clear whether they were a family. Witnesses told the FAA the single-e... »
Latest Blog Posts in Detail
Word Counts of Famous Short Stories (organized)
Commonplace Book
Jan 22Shamelessly cribbed from Classic Short Stories and re-organized by word count from shortest to longest for comparison purposes. We're discussing short stories with the Indy NaNoWriMo group this afternoon, and I thought it might help to have a word coun... »
First Council Meeting of 2012
Had Enough Indy?
Jan 09The first City-County Council meeting of 2012 will be held tonight and usher in 4 years of Democratic control of the Council and Republican control of the Mayor's office.Tonight's agenda is replete with organizational matters. Being offered for consid... »
You are awful, too
Commonplace Book
Jan 03Whenever you confront, or see confronted, sexism on the internet, there is almost always a chorus of people doing a couple of things in response: 1) excusing the behavior of the people who are sexist, or 2) trying to defend the community in which the s... »