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Indiana News For November 15, 2007
« Reply #30 on: November 15, 2007, 03:26:13 pm »
From WISH TV 8:

Southside Starbucks Hit By Ambulance



GREENWOOD, Ind. - An ambulance crashed into a suburban Indianapolis Starbucks early this morning, causing minor structural damage and shattering a window at the coffee shop.

The ambulance was not on an emergency call at the time and no patients were inside the vehicle.

The accident occurred as the ambulance was stopped in the Greenwood Starbucks parking lot about 1 a.m.

According to the Starbucks manager, a worker in the ambulance accidentally knocked the vehicle into gear as he reached under the steering wheel to retrieve several dropped items.

Starbucks briefly closed the store to walk-in customers, but the drive-in window remained open.




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Indiana News For November 15, 2007
« Reply #31 on: November 15, 2007, 03:29:59 pm »
From WISH TV 8:


Suspected Burglar Rescued, Arrested By Police

THORNTOWN, Ind. - The suspect's entrance was not exactly slick, but his exit certainly was.

A Lebanon teen reportedly attempted to rob the Thorntown IGA, but got stuck in the vent shaft. Police had to lubricate the suspect with vegetable oil from the store's shelves just to pull him out.

Adam F. Cooper, 19, was charged Wednesday with a class C felony for burglary and two class B misdemeanors for criminal mischief and false informing. His case is in Boone County Superior Court I.

According to his case report, Boone County Dispatch received a call from Stookey's restaurant owners Jon Stookey and Mike Hankins about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. The two told police they heard what sounded like someone screaming for help from the store down the block on Main Street.

Upon investigation, Thorntown Police found a pair of jeans and shoes on the roof of the IGA. Police also noticed the roof exhaust fan above the store's deli had been removed and found Cooper 2 to 3 feet down the narrow shaft, apparently stuck.

Thorntown Deputy Marshal Chad Clendening said Cooper entered the shaft feet first.

"I'm sorry, (I was) trying to break in," Cooper reportedly told Clendening and TPD Officer Frank Clark.

Thorntown IGA owner Tina Railer said Cooper was stuck in the vent for at least an hour before someone heard him. Railer said the officers could not figure out where the screams for help were coming from until they went behind the store.

"He was stuck between the ceiling and the roof," Railer said.

Boone County EMS and the Thorntown Fire Department were called to assist. Cooper was beginning to have trouble breathing and was dehydrated.

Emergency workers were unable to contact Railer so they had to break through the store's glass front door to try to pull Cooper out from the inside. Clendening said they tried to yank him out by his feet, but he wouldn't budge. Emergency workers then cut Cooper's sweatshirt away and poured vegetable oil down the shaft and handed Cooper a rope. It took four men on the roof to pull him out.

"It was the last resort before they were going to cut him out," Railer said.

Cooper was dragged out of the vent about midnight and taken to Witham Memorial Hospital for examination.

Earlier that day, Cooper had been on a cleaning team that cleaned the store's vent. Police said Cooper told them that he moved through the vent just fine when he was working and figured he could use it to rob the store.

When asked why he intended the rob the store, Cooper reportedly told police that he was at his girlfriend's house in Thorntown and she had upset him, so he "was gonna go do something stupid."

Cooper told police he planned on stealing some cigarettes and something to drink.

Initially, Cooper said his name was Joseph E. Fugate. When asked why he gave a false name, Cooper said he was trying to hide his identity because he was afraid he was already wanted on a warrant.

Railer said this was the first time in the six years she's owned the store that anyone has attempted to rob it.

Clendening said while this story has something of funny ending, Cooper was fortunate that Stookey and Hankins heard him.

"He's really lucky someone heard him yelling," Clendening said. "Otherwise, we probably would have been removing a corpse the next morning."

This is Cooper's third arrest in Boone County in the past 15 months. His two previous arrests were both class D felony thefts.

If Cooper is found guilty on all three charges, his could face up to nine years in prison and fines up to $12,000. His trial date is set for April 21.




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Indiana News For November 15, 2007
« Reply #32 on: November 15, 2007, 03:32:12 pm »
From WISH TV 8:

Super 70 Reconstruction Project Almost Completed



INDIANAPOLIS - The rebuilding of a six-mile stretch of Interstate 70 on the east side of Indianapolis is nearly complete.

The Indiana Department of Transportation spokesman Will Wingfield says all lanes should be reopened in the next day or two. But he warns that commuters should still consider the area a construction zone.

INDOT says lane markers must still be placed in the westbound lanes.

The $175 million project began in February.

The project is the biggest single-season construction project INDOT has ever undertaken.

It runs from the eastern leg of Interstate 465 to downtown Indianapolis. It's the first major reconstruction on the road since it was built nearly 40 years ago.




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Indiana News For November 15, 2007
« Reply #33 on: November 15, 2007, 03:34:44 pm »
From WISH TV 8:

Computers Stolen From Indianapolis VA Hospital


INDIANAPOLIS - Police are investigating the theft of 3 computers from the Veterans Administration hospital in Indianapolis. Officials say 1 of the computers contained files on about 12,000 patients.

The VA says the computers were stolen from locked offices at the Roudebush VA Medical Center on Saturday.

VA officials say patient information is protected by passwords, but patients whose information may have been stolen are being contacted. The Department of Veterans Affairs is also offering one year of free credit monitoring to those affected.

Indiana Congressman Steve Buyer says he's upset that the VA has failed to comply with its own policy to safeguard veterans' information.




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Indiana News For November 15, 2007
« Reply #34 on: November 15, 2007, 03:39:58 pm »
From The Indy Channel website:

Midair Air Collision Over Indiana Averted Within Seconds


AURORA, Ill. -- A cockpit safety device is credited with helping pilots avoid a midair collision at 25,000 feet over Indiana.

According to a preliminary investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration, the planes came within seconds of colliding because of an error by an air traffic controller.

FAA spokeswoman Elizabeth Isham Cory said the Tuesday evening incident happened amid a shift change during a busy time at the Chicago Center radar facility in Aurora.
 

Officials said that controller directed a Midwest Airlines plane flying east from Milwaukee into the path of a United Express jet heading west out of Greensboro, N.C.

The collision-avoidance device in the Midwest plane went off in the Fort Wayne area, and an airline spokeswoman said the pilots executed an emergency climb to get out of the way.


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News From Indiana for November 25, 2007
« Reply #35 on: November 26, 2007, 04:44:10 am »
From TheIndyChannel.com:

U.S. Congresswoman Julia Carson (D Indianapolis) Reveals Terminal Illness

INDIANAPOLIS -- Rep. Julia Carson has confirmed she is battling terminal lung cancer, and friends said Sunday she is in hospice care, barely able to speak.



Carson, 69, issued a statement to the Indianapolis Star Saturday afternoon, revealing the diagnosis.




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Re: News From The Hoosier State
« Reply #36 on: February 04, 2009, 02:44:17 am »
Well, so much for Indiana doing its part to help out with the prisoners from Guantanamo Bay after they close it. Apparently Indiana feels it should be everybody ELSES problem...

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Indiana: No home for accused terrorists

Resolution seeks to keep Guantanamo Bay prisoners from being transferred to Indiana

The federal prison in Terre Haute is no place for accused terrorists, says an Indiana lawmaker who proposed a resolution this morning to keep prisoners in Cuba from being transferred to Indiana once Guantanamo Bay is closed by President Barack Obama.

State Sen. Marlin Stutzman, R-Howe, is urging the Obama administration to keep the 240 terrorist inmates currently being held at Gitmo out of Indiana’s federal prison.

“This measure is gaining support in both the Senate and House of Representatives as we aim to keep suspected terrorists out of our own back yards,” Stutzman said at a news conference this morning. “We are asking the federal government to help us protect Hoosier citizens from becoming targets of terrorist acts.”

Terre Haute long has been home to the United States Penitentiary -- a high security prison that gained national attention several years ago when it carried out the execution of the Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh. In 2007, a special unit was opened within the prison to house high-security prisoners facing federal death sentences, and Stutzman thinks it could be targeted as a location for terrorist suspects.

According to Stutzman, federal officials have said most detainees will return to Yemen, their home country. However, for the rest of the inmates more than half are considered too much of a threat to be released from U.S. custody.

Stutzman's biggest fear: Records show that about 18 former detainees who were released returned to terrorism and 43 are suspected of having done so, according to the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Other lawmakers are also on board as supporting the measure, including Sens. Jim Buck, R-Kokomo; Greg Walker, R-Columbus; Carlin Yoder, R-Middlebury; Reps. Milo Smith, R-Columbus; Jeff Thompson, R-Lizton; Bill Davis, R-Portland; Cindy Noe, R-Indianapolis; Jackie Walorski, R-Jimtown; Rich McClain, R-Logansport; Matt Lehman, R-Berne; David Yarde, R-Garrett; and Wes Culver, R-Goshen.

Contact reporter Dan McFeely at [email protected] or at (317) 444-6253


http://www.indystar.com/article/20090203/NEWS/90203034/-1/NEWS

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Re: News From The Hoosier State
« Reply #37 on: May 04, 2009, 12:27:54 am »
Hopefully they prayed for that stadium they were in today. This foolish dumb ass city spent all that money to build it, and now they have no idea how they are going to pay for it. ::)

Dumb ASSES.

Huge Mass today at Lucas Oil stadium

Thousands of Catholic Hoosiers are expected to flood Lucas Oil Stadium today for a ceremonial mass in honor of Archdiocese of Indianapolis’ 175th Anniversary.

The mass begins at 3 p.m. and is open to the public.

Indianapolis Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein and 19 other Catholic dignitaries from across the United States are expected to attend.

The church believes this could be one of the largest assemblies of Catholics in state history.

According to spokesman Greg Otolski, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis was formed as the Diocese of Vincennes in 1834. The Diocese was moved to Indianapolis in 1898 and became an Archdiocese in 1944.

Otolski estimated there are more than 227,000 Catholics in 151 parishes in 39 counties in central and southern Indiana.

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More Protesters Arrested At Notre Dame
« Reply #38 on: May 17, 2009, 03:10:22 am »
The Catholic Church and President Obama have SO much in common, and yet we continue to concentrate on our one or two differences. How sad that is...


Police Arrest More Prostesters At Notre Dame

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (May 16) - Graduation festivities got under way at the University of Notre Dame on Saturday — as well as another day of demonstrations over President Barack Obama's appearance Sunday.

University spokesman Dennis Brown said there were no reports of protests on campus at any of the ceremonies held by various schools, centers and institutes. For the most part, the only difference on campus was the heightened security for Obama's visit, he said.

Bishop John D'Arcy, whose Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend includes the Notre Dame campus, helped students protesting Obama's visit kick off an all-night prayer vigil Saturday night. D'Arcy led them in prayer at the campus' grotto for more than 20 minutes and praised their plan to protest Obama's visit.

"The young people have behaved with great dignity. They have been firm in their purpose and strong in their purpose, but prayerful. They haven't followed those who said we're going to make it a circus," he said.

About 150 people, including students, parents and alumni, prayed with D'Arcy for three things: that Obama will change his support of abortion rights and embryonic stem-cell research, that people throughout the world gain a greater respect for life and that Notre Dame and other Roman Catholic universities will more fully embrace their Catholic identity.

D'Arcy spoke to the students about three hours after about 12,000 people attended a commencement Mass at the Joyce Center on Saturday evening. Neither D'Arcy nor the Rev. John Jenkins, the university president, mentioned the controversy during the 85-minute service.

Earlier in the day at the school's front gate, more than 100 people gathered to protest the decision to invite Obama to speak at commencement and receive an honorary degree.

Shortly after noon, 23 protesters marched on to campus. Nineteen were arrested on trespassing charges and four also faced a charge of resisting law enforcement, said Sgt. Bill Redman, St. Joseph County Police Department spokesman. They were being held on $250 bond.

Among those arrested was the Rev. Norman Weslin, a Catholic priest and founder of the Lambs of Christ abortion protest group. He also was among 21 people arrested during a similar protest Friday.

None of those arrested Saturday were students, Brown said.

Former Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes and five others were arrested Friday and held overnight. Keyes was released Saturday evening after posting $1,000 bond.

Also protesting Saturday was Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff identified as "Roe" in the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. She now opposes abortion.

She said she had planned to be arrested on Saturday, but changed her mind when a security officer ushered her to the side and gave her a chance to walk away.

"I didn't know why he just kind of gently moved me away. So I'm like, maybe this isn't the right time," McCorvey said.

Some driving past the protesters on Saturday waved in support. Others yelled at them. One man honked his horn in protest and held up a handful of hangers, a symbol of the gruesome procedures some pregnant women resorted to before Roe v. Wade.

Later, about 10 pro-Obama demonstrators assembled across the street holding up placards with slogans such as "Honk if you support Obama" and "Pro-Jenkins/Notre Dame." Jenkins has been criticized by many, including dozens of bishops, for the school's decision to invite Obama.

On campus, though, there were no signs of protest. Students generally favored Obama giving the graduation speech. The graduating class voted to name Jenkins their Senior Class Fellow.

A full page advertisement in the South Bend Tribune on Saturday had the headline: "Catholic Leaders and Theologians Welcome President Obama to Notre Dame." The ad, signed by university professors around the country, many of them at Catholic schools, said that as Catholics committed to civil dialogue, they were proud Obama was giving the commencement address.

There were some students, though, who opposed Obama giving the speech. ND Response, a coalition of university groups, has received permission from Notre Dame to hold a protest on the west end of the South Quad on Sunday. Spokesman John Daly said he expected 20 to 30 graduating seniors to skip commencement and attend the prayer vigil.

ND Response has passed items with a yellow cross with yellow baby's feet that graduates could put atop their mortarboards to wear during the graduation ceremony. Some of the people who listened to D'Arcy then went to a chapel at one of the dorms on campus for an all-night prayer vigil.


Copyright 2009 The Associated Press


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Re: News From The Hoosier State
« Reply #39 on: May 17, 2009, 03:26:59 am »
I dont think its sad.  :'(