CHARLES WILSON

Associated Press
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Officials apply Ind. fair's lessons to Super Bowl

With 80-foot zip lines, outdoor concerts and an array of food pavilions, downtown Indianapolis is hoping to create the festive atmosphere of a summer street fair — without the heat — for this season's Super Bowl and to show tens of thousands of visitors that a cold-weather city can put on the glitz for the NFL's big game.

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Judge stays order ousting Ind. secretary of state

A judge has ruled that Indiana's Republican secretary of state can remain in office until a higher court has reviewed the ruling that ousted him.

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Ind. police: Money didn't stop boy's fatal beating

A South Bend grandmother who knew her son habitually beat and burned some of his children and had bargained with him to decrease the severity of the attacks faced neglect charges Thursday after prosecutors said the father pummeled one of his sons to death.

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Lawyer says Ind. teen wrongly labeled 'psychopath'

An Indiana judge who sentenced a teenager to life in prison without parole for strangling his 10-year-old brother gave too much credence to a psychologist's testimony that the boy could be a psychopath, his lawyer said Monday in arguing for a reduced sentence.

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Indiana, Planned Parenthood in court over funding

Planned Parenthood of Indiana can end a dispute over a law that would cut some of its public funding if it became two separate entities, with one offering abortion services and the other offering general health services, an attorney for the state told a federal appeals court Thursday.

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Prosecutors file more charges in 'sextortion' case

A Maryland man charged with extorting an Indiana teen into sexual favors victimized other teens in several states after he was released on bond, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

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Ind. boy acquitted of murdering 6-year-old brother

A 12-year-old Indiana boy didn't mean to kill his 6-year-old brother when he pointed what he thought was an unloaded gun at him and pulled the trigger, but he knew better than to take the chance, a judge ruled Friday.

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Expert to help Ind. fair with stage collapse funds

Indiana officials turned Wednesday to the man who oversaw victims compensation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the BP oil spill for help deciding who will receive money donated to help victims of a deadly stage collapse at the state fair.

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Judge denies request to block Ind. voucher program

A judge Monday declined to halt Indiana's broad new school voucher program, saying the law was "religion-neutral" and likely to be upheld.

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Ind. asks court to lift Planned Parenthood order

Indiana has asked a federal appeals court to lift a judge's order blocking parts of a new abortion law that cuts some public Planned Parenthood funding.

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Judge finds Indiana teen guilty in school shooting

A central Indiana teenager who insisted for weeks that he hadn't intended to kill a former classmate admitted in court Monday that he had hoped the shots he fired would be fatal, bringing an unexpectedly fast end to his trial.

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Ind. appeals freeing of Planned Parenthood funds

Indiana's attorney general on Tuesday appealed a judge's ruling that blocked key aspects of a new state law that cut some public funding for Planned Parenthood because the organization provides abortions.

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Indiana elections chief says he didn't lie

Indiana's top elections official defended himself Tuesday against voter fraud allegations that could cost him his job, detailing a personal life fraught with the rigors of a campaign trail that often forced him to live out of his car and sleep at his ex-wife's home.

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Police: Truck not tied to missing college student

Police investigating the disappearance of an Indiana University student say a pickup truck seen in the area at the time of her disappearance wasn't involved in the case.

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Ind. prosecutor suggested fake attack on Wis. gov.

An Indiana prosecutor said one of his deputies resigned Thursday after admitting he sent an email to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker suggesting the Republican fake an attack on himself to discredit the public employee unions protesting his plan to strip them of nearly all collective bargaining rights.

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Indicted Ind. official resists calls to step down

The man whose job is to maintain the integrity of Indiana's elections ignored mounting calls for him to step down or resign after his indictment Thursday on charges he broke the laws he's supposed to enforce.

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Indicted Ind. official resists calls to step down

The man whose job is to maintain the integrity of Indiana's elections ignored mounting calls for him to step down or resign after his indictment Thursday on charges he broke the laws he's supposed to enforce.

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Judge sides with illegal immigrants' kids in Ind.

A federal judge says Indiana cannot deny paternity documents for children born in the U.S. just because their parents are illegal immigrants and don't have Social Security numbers.

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Biden touts advanced technology vehicles in Ind.

Vice President Joe Biden thanked workers at an electric car battery plant in Indiana Wednesday for doing their part to lift America's auto industry from its dependence on foreign oil into a high-tech future.

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Indianapolis officer charged again in fatal crash

On his way to help serve a warrant last August, Officer David Bisard's police cruiser smashed into two motorcycles, leaving one rider dead and two others seriously injured.

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ACLU seeks to add 2 plaintiffs to Lindh's lawsuit

Two more Muslim inmates are trying to join American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh and another prisoner in a federal lawsuit asking for them to be allowed to hold daily group prayers in their highly restricted cell block.

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Suspect named in Ind. anti-Jewish vandalism attack

Indiana University police say they have identified a suspect in one of a series of acts of anti-Jewish vandalism in the college town of Bloomington.

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Auto industry bailout pulls Kokomo back from brink

Jerry Price remembers the eerie silence less than two years ago when he walked through one of the transmission plants that long provided the economic lifeblood of this town steeped in auto industry history.

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USDA investigating cattle brokerage for bad checks

One of the nation's largest cattle brokerages is under investigation after federal regulators said the Indiana company left ranchers nationwide hanging for as much as $130 million, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials said Thursday.

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Hero pilot criticizes new FAA rules on fatigue

The pilot who landed a jetliner safely on the Hudson River last year said Friday that proposed rules aimed at reducing pilot fatigue could end up leaving them more tired than before and endanger passengers' safety.

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