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  • A United Airlines Airbus A320 passenger plane takes off from Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

    Virgin America best U.S. airline performer in 2012

    U.S. airlines scored their second-best performance last year in the more than two decades that researchers have been measuring airline quality, with Virgin America the leader, an annual report released Monday says.


  • Asian carp spawning areas wider than expected

    Asian carp are reproducing in more places and under more varied conditions than experts had believed they could, yet another reason to worry about the greedy invader's potential to infest waterways and crowd out native species, scientists said Tuesday.


  • Purdue U. teacher wins $100,000 poetry prize

    Marianne Boruch, a Purdue University creative writing teacher, has won this year's $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a California university announced Monday.


  • Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announces his re-election bid at a campaign fair outside Butler University's storied Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on June 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Tom Strickland)

    Indiana a changed state after Mitch Daniels' 8 years

    Gov. Mitch Daniels will leave Indiana a state modeled after the businessman's conservatism he practiced and studied for decades, with all the successes and mistakes that came of his bold vision.


  • Outgoing Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and his now-ousted superintendent of schools, Tony Bennett, spearheaded controversial changes in the state over the past two years. But the future of their reform work is now very much in doubt. (Associated Press)

    Indiana governor warns of foes to education reform

    At the forefront of education reform in the U.S., Indiana faces an uncertain future after its trail-blazing schools chief was ousted three weeks ago and replaced by a teachers union official.


  • Inside the Beltway: Bill and the hoodie

    Two decades have passed since nightclub entertainer and blond bombshell Gennifer Flowers stepped before cameras and announced she had a 12-year affair with then-Gov. Bill Clinton, joining a roster of attractive women who reported similar dalliances, wanted and unwanted. Miss Flowers has stepped forward once again to reveal that in 2005, Mr. Clinton offered to come visit her once again.


  • Chizik, among 5 college football coaches fired

    Gene Chizik, Frank Spaziani and Danny Hope got the pink slips many expected were coming after disappointing seasons.


  • NASA picks another Mars flight to explore its core

    After driving all around Mars with four rovers, NASA wants to look deep into the guts of the red planet.


  • Mitch Daniels

    Indiana Gov. Daniels to head Purdue after term

    Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels on Thursday accepted an offer to become the next president of Purdue University, quashing speculation he could be GOP nominee Mitt Romney's running mate in November.


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