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Search For Indiana Student Reminiscent of 2000 Case
Robert and Charlene Spierer address the media during a news conference in Bloomington, Ind., Tuesday, June 7, 2011. Credit: AP BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Eleven years after an Indiana University student disappeared while on a bike ride, ...Eleven years after an Indiana University student disappeared while on a bike ride, the scene in this college town is eerily similar, with parents and volunteers frantically searching for another missing woman with no sign of what happened to her.
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Sarah Palin Admits She Considered Abortion
Click the image to see more shots of Sarah Palin and her family. Photo by Win McNamee, Getty Images
Sarah Palin made a surprise admission in front of 3,000 Indiana supporters on Saturday: At 13 weeks pregnant with her youngest son Trig, now 1, ...
Indiana school bans purses in the classroom
In an effort to keep kids as safe as possible, many schools have banned backpacks in the classroom, forcing students to keep them in their lockers instead. But an Indiana high school is taking that idea one step further, telling female students that ...
Eight-year-old swallows magnets and steel balls
No, this isn't something out of a circus side show. An eight-year-old girl from Indiana swallowed a combined total of 30 magnets and steel balls from a toy. The toys parts tore her intestines and doctors are saying she is lucky to be alive. Haley ...
Student teacher creates bomb threat hoax to get out of class
An Indiana student teacher has been accused of emailing in a report of a false bomb threat so that she wouldn't have to report for duty the next day. Jennifer Kay Fritz, 24, sent in an anonymous email detailing a scene she witnessed -- a group of ...
Carmel isn't family friendly
Not that we were planning on leaving San Francisco anyway, but if we did, we surely wouldn't be moving to Carmel, Indiana. Why not, you ask? Because it's not "family friendly". Earlier this week, the Carmel City Council voted 5-2 not to adopt a ...
Traveling for the holidays
Ah, December. It's a month I look forward to in a way, one that should be filled with evenings of hot chocolate by the fireside and sugarplum fairies. It should be filled with snow-covered trees and wrapping up in warm blankets with the rest of the ...
Split families and the holidays
With whom do you spend your holidays? Do you rotate them between your and your spouse's families? Do you hot one set for Thanksgiving and one for Christmas/Hanukkah? What about when divorce is involved? With our families, the holidays become a ...
States change sex offender laws to reduce 'Romeo' convictions
So-called "Romeo and Juliet" romances, where consensual sex occurs between teenagers, sometimes leads to prosecution as a sex-offender for the older partner. In most states, a 19-year-old who has sex with a 17-year-old could be charged as a sex ...Family gives waitress $10,000 tip
I consider myself a pretty good tipper. Waiting on tables looks like it could be a pretty tough job sometimes and unless the service is bad, I always give at least 20%. However, an Indiana mother and her two sons have put my measly 20 percent to ...
Have baby: Will travel...home at last
Yesterday evening, after seemingly endless miles of beautiful Pennsylvania scenery, we hit our beloved Brooklyn, NYC. We completed our first road trip as a family. Of course, first we hit major traffic going over the George Washington Bridge, ...
Have baby: Will travel...greetings from the heartland
[Have baby: Will travel chronicles one new family's roadtrip adventure from New York to the South...and back.] Wow. I've been without consistent (or any) Internet access since I last wrote, and all I can say is: wow. I never realized how ...
Have baby: Will travel...things I've learned
In no particular order: Because I don't own a car, driving is an adventure, especially when you're surrounded by careening semis. Also, basically no one seems to know how to drive (including us). My husband can put together the pack and play ...
Have baby: Will travel...pictures (finally)
No road trip is worth documenting without pictures. Pictures make anything more personal, and now I finally have mine to share with you so I can leave the good folks over at everystockphoto.com to their own devices. The pictures so far are of the ...











