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  • Stewart mixing dirt track fun with Daytona testing

    Even in a busy offseason, NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart is squeezing in time for some dirt-track racing at the Chili Bowl.


  • Stewart mixing dirt track fun with Daytona testing

    Even in a busy offseason, NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart is squeezing in time for some dirt-track racing at the Chili Bowl.


  • Aliahna Lemmon (Associated Press/Allen County, Ind., Sheriff's Department)

    Baby sitter murder charge in Indiana girl's death

    A trusted family friend who confessed to police that he bludgeoned to death a 9-year-old Indiana girl in his care then dismembered her just days before Christmas was formally charged Friday in the killing.


  • Aliahna Lemmon (Associated Press/Allen County, Ind., Sheriff's Department)

    Police: Baby sitter beat, dismembered Ind. girl

    Police in Indiana said Tuesday that a baby sitter bludgeoned a 9-year-old girl to death with a brick and then dismembered her with a hacksaw.


  • SGT. SHAFT: Vet could be eligible for compensation because of Agent Orange

    Dear Sgt. Shaft: I am a Vietnam veteran (era 1965/1966) and, over the years, have developed problems due to an enlarged prostate and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) issues. During my service, I served in An Khe, Pleiku, Qui Nhon, etc., where heavy concentrations of Agent Orange were sprayed. Will I be eligible to receive compensation/benefits because of exposure to Agent Orange?


  • Judy Nicewinter (center) comforts Dianne Semento during a memorial service at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis on Monday, Aug. 15, 2011, for those killed in a weekend stage collapse. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

    Ind. fair honors five killed in stage collapse

    Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels told hundreds of people who gathered Monday for a service to remember five people killed when a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair that the tragedy has broken the hearts of the state's residents.


  • Ind. governor: Wind gust that felled stage a 'fluke'

    The wind gust that toppled a stage at the Indiana State Fair Saturday night, killing five and injuring dozens of fans waiting for the country band Sugarland to perform, was a "fluke" that no one could have anticipated, the governor and others said Sunday.


  • Indiana officials identify stage collapse victims

    Authorities in Indiana have identified the five people who were killed when a blast of wind toppled a stage and its rigging before a Sugarland concert at the Indiana State Fair.


  • Strong wind topples stage at Ind. fair, killing 5

    The wind gust that toppled a stage at the Indiana State Fair Saturday night, killing five and injuring dozens of fans waiting for the country band Sugarland to perform, was a "fluke" that no one could have anticipated, the governor and others said Sunday.


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