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Neutering initiative keeps hope

Frank Gray — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 03:00:00 EST

For every person born in America, seven dogs and cats are born, according to the people at H.O.P.E. for Animals, a low-cost spay-neuter clinic on Maycrest Drive.

Tragic consequences

Ron Shawgo — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST

Working amid the din of giant steel presses and shouting commands to a co-worker he couldn't see, 23-year-old Michael Oberley was struck in the head by the machine he was trying to fix. No one is sure what happened.

IOSHA falling down on job?

Ron Shawgo — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST

The Indiana agency charged with keeping workplaces safe performs far fewer inspections than in the past, issues fewer serious violations and in recent years has struggled with employee turnover.

OSHA assessing state safety offices' effectiveness

Ron Shawgo — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 03:00:00 EST

Problems in Nevada four years ago have federal officials still trying to determine whether states with their own workplace safety agencies are as good as OSHA.

DNR, lake owners debate responsibility for dam

Ron Shawgo — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 03:00:00 EST

It seemed like a sweet deal. When Paul and Deborah Malone bought an old campground northeast of Decatur in 1998, the seller threw in the 30-acre lake for $1.

Charity study: Poor give till it hurts'

Dan Stockman — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 03:00:00 EST

How much people give to charity appears deeply tied to where they live, whether they are religious, how rich or poor they are, and - if they're wealthy - how close they live to those who are not, a new report says.

Clean Water Act violations rising, seldom punished

Dan Stockman — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 03:00:00 EST

Nearly three out of every four facilities in Indiana operating under the Clean Water Act broke that law in 2009, EPA data show, but of all those violators, only one-third faced any kind of sanctions.

Less death before dawn

Dan Stockman — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 03:00:00 EST

Critics of Indiana's move to observing daylight saving time have long argued that it puts children at risk because the later sunrise in spring and fall has them walking to school and bus stops in the dark.

Iran-Contra spotlight once fell on librarian

Dan Stockman — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 03:00:00 EST

Though the televised hearings had begun two full months before, they hit their peak on July 7, 1987 - 25 years ago Saturday - when Lt. Col. Oliver North took the stand and turned everything on its head.

In private, Wartell irked at ouster

Dan Stockman — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 03:00:00 EST

Outgoing IPFW Chancellor Michael Wartell has worked hard to put forth an accepting - if disappointed - face on his forced departure from the college campus he has led for 18 years.

Once vital, now obsolete

Dan Stockman — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 03:00:00 EST

They were such an integral part of our existence that it was hard to imagine life without them. It's even harder to imagine now how they disappeared.

Teen changed' by her dolphin tale

Dan Stockman — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 03:00:00 EST

The whole thing seems crazy, if she thinks about it.

Deployment gets attorney military law experience

Dan Stockman — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 03:00:00 EST

Mike Phillip seemed to have everything going for him: He had left high school early to go to DePauw University where he graduated with a degree in political science.

Prepare for more weather extremes

Dan Stockman — Sun, 27 May 2012 03:00:00 EST

If it seems as if Midwestern weather is more extreme and thunderstorms are more often bigger, stronger - and rainier - it's because they are, a new study says.

Minorities fuel population growth in Indiana's small towns

Ron Shawgo — Sun, 27 May 2012 03:00:00 EST

The kids are fidgeting, but Maribela Ledesma is patient. You can't blame Gerardo Billa, 2, and his brother Geobiny Billa, 1. It's sunny, the wind is light and the temperature perfect this day in Cromwell, a town of 512 in west Noble County.