Intelligent design evolving into hot issue
Sunday, November 13, 2005 Mary Beth Schneider - - Indianapolis Star
| Indiana House Majority Leader Bill Friend knew that just asking constituents about the teaching of "intelligent design" in public school science classes could stir controversy.
"We were trying to see if this is a hot-button issue for people," said Friend, one of 36 Republican lawmakers who included the issue on a survey.
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Fair game?
Sunday, October 23, 2005 Will Higgins - - Indianapolis Star
| Game preserve owners and their customers are the targets of an unlikely alliance between hunters and animal-rights activists
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No debate: N.Y. time for most of us
Tuesday, July 19, 2005 Mary Beth Schneider - - Indianapolis Star
| There will be no statewide debate on where the Central and Eastern time zone boundary should be in Indiana, angering some Hoosiers who say the decision effectively forces most of the state to observe Eastern Daylight Time.
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Bayh didn't break into top of straw poll
Sunday, June 19, 2005 Maureen Groppe - - Indianapolis Star (Gannett News Service)
| It's not that anyone expected Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., to beat Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., in a straw poll asking Wisconsin Democrats to name their preferred 2008 presidential candidate.
But given that Bayh was keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Democratic Party's state convention earlier this month, a few thought he'd do better than fourth.
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Bayh does well in poll of Hoosiers
Tuesday, April 5, 2005 Maureen Groppe - - Indianapolis Star
| Two out of three Hoosiers believe Hoosier Sen. Evan Bayh has the personal qualities needed to be a good president.
And without knowing who the other candidates might be, about half said they are likely to vote for Bayh if he is the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in 2008, according to a new Indianapolis Star/WTHR (Channel 13) poll.
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Clinton pitches peace and book
Thursday, June 9, 2005 Mary Beth Schneider - - Indianapolis Star
| Former President Bill Clinton didn't come to Indianapolis to rip the Republican who succeeded him in the White House.
Only minutes into his one-hour speech Wednesday night at Congregation Beth-El Zedeck synagogue, Clinton made it clear he had a different agenda.
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Still not running, Bayh bashes Bush
Sunday, June 5, 2005 Matthew Tully - - Indianapolis Star
| Sen. Evan Bayh walked past a row of "Bayh '08!" campaign signs as he headed into an Indiana Democratic Party fundraiser Saturday night.
Bayh doesn't have to run for his U.S. Senate seat again until 2010. But the junior senator from Indiana could be on the ballot in 2008 if he decides to run for president.
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Hostage's neighbors hope, pray for his safe release
Thursday, April 14, 2005 Dan McFeely and Matthew Tully - - Indianapolis Star
| Crisp and clear, Pine Lake paints a serene picture from the back yards of the homes along Closser Avenue, where Jeffrey Ake and his family reside on the southern edge of this, the largest of three lakes in LaPorte.
But the beautiful scenery was a stark contrast to the turmoil that gripped not only this neighborhood but the entire city after the news broke Wednesday that the widely known businessman had been taken hostage in Iraq.
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DST drama: It fails! It passes!
Tuesday, April 12, 2005 Mary Beth Schneider - - Indianapolis Star
| After a flurry of phone calls and one-on-one meetings between the governor and wavering lawmakers, the Indiana House erased an earlier vote and, for the first time in 22 years, passed a bill moving Indiana toward daylight-saving time.
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Power-sharing talks in Iraq stall
Thursday, March 3, 2005
AP's Rawya Rageh - - Indianapolis Star
| Talks aimed at forging a coalition government faltered Wednesday over Kurdish demands for more land and concerns that the dominant Shiite alliance seeks to establish an Islamic state, delaying the planned first meeting of Iraq's new parliament.
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Same-sex marriage ban progresses
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 Mary Beth Schneider - - Indianapolis Star
| An Indiana Senate committee voted on party-lines today to support a constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriage.
This is the second year in a row the committee has voted in favor of changing Indiana's constitution to define marriage as only between a man and a woman. Last year, the amendment passed the Senate 42 to 7, but did not receive a hearing in the House, then controlled by Democrats.
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Local program that assists Hoosier families likely to lose federal funds
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 Staci Hupp and Maureen Groppe - - Indianapolis Star
| A blue banner hangs above the women who sit in a stuffy classroom at William McKinley School on the city's Southeastside: "You are the author of your life story."
The first chapters read the same way for most of these 20 Indianapolis women. They became pregnant, dropped out of high school and now, as single mothers, struggle to keep food on the table.
But they see the promise of a happy ending in Even Start, a federally supported program, which helps with high school equivalency tests, job searches and parenting skills.
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Taxpayers can do more to help pay federal debt
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 Maureen Groppe - - Indianapolis Star
| President Bush wants to cut the federal deficit in half by 2009. That would slow the growth of the federal debt, which is at record levels. Here's a look at key questions and answers, and what's next in the process:
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Roemer ends bid for national post
Monday, February 7, 2005 Maureen Groppe - - Indianapolis Star
| Former Indiana Rep. Tim Roemer today abandoned his bid to lead the national Democrat Party, leaving former presidential candidate Howard Dean the only remaining candidate for the job.
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Hoosiers bring mixed views to inauguration
Thursday, January 20, 2005 Maureen Groppe - - Indianapolis Star (Gannett News Service)
| President Bush's inaugural address had more meaning for Jeff and Pam Hallal than for most of the other tens of thousands of Americans who stood in the cold today to watch President George W. Bush officially begin his second term.
The Hallals came to the inauguration to honor the sacrifice of their son, Pfc. Deryk L. Hallal, who died last year during heavy fighting in western Iraq.
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Hoosiers on the Hill face tall task
Monday, January 3, 2005 Maureen Groppe - - Indianapolis Star
| How much federal money will Indiana get for U.S. 31 improvements, the Hoosier Heartland Highway and other transportation projects?
Will the Pentagon recommend -- and will Congress go along with -- closing Indiana's last major military base -- a potential loss of 4,000 Hoosier jobs?
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Rumsfeld should resign, Sen. Bayh says
Friday, December 17, 2004 Terry Horne - - Indianapolis Star
| Sen. Evan Bayh suggested Thursday that it was time for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to step down.
The Indiana Democrat made his comments to both National Public Radio and The Indianapolis Star as a "no-confidence" movement gained momentum in the Senate.
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Legislator met with troops, Afghans
Tuesday, December 14, 2004 Ellyn Ferguson - - Indianapolis Star (Gannett News Service)
| Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., returns to the United States today from a congressional trip that allowed him to play Santa Claus to U.S. troops and visit Afghanistan, the first battleground in America's international war on terrorism.
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Some big spenders fell short in House races
Sunday, December 5, 2004 Maureen Groppe - - Indianapolis Star
| This year's biggest spenders among Indiana's congressional candidates both lost.
Democratic Rep. Baron Hill in the 9th District and Democratic challenger Jon Jennings in the 8th District each spent about $1.5 million.
But big spending by the Republican Party helped their opponents secure victory.
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Tobias standing by U.S. AIDS policies
Sunday, November 28, 2004 Maureen Groppe - - Indianapolis Star
| As President Bush's global AIDS czar, Hoosier Randall Tobias has spent the past year trying to get up and running the most expensive commitment by one country to fight the disease, which is carried by almost 40 million people.
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Republican governors hear from Karl Rove
Saturday, November 20, 2004
AP's ADAM NOSSITER - - Indianapolis Star
| Republican governors wrapped up a low-key, two-day conference Friday listening to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge laud the benefits of federal-state cooperation.
But the real star of the show slipped in and out of the meeting at a New Orleans hotel unannounced, without talking to reporters: top White House political strategist Karl Rove.
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Bayh gets early look for '08 president race
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 Maureen Groppe - - Indianapolis Star
| A few days before Sen. John Kerry picked John Edwards as his vice presidential candidate this summer, Republican pollster Frank Luntz was asked by a TV network to test the appeal of seven potential running mates.
Luntz read a description and played a video clip of each of the Democrats to a group of swing voters.
The voters liked Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh the most.
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World reaction to battle muted
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
AP's JIM HEINTZ - - Indianapolis Star
| The intense U.S.-led assault on Fallujah could undermine Iraq's upcoming elections, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned Tuesday, and the United Nations' refugee agency expressed concern about the tens of thousands of civilians who have fled the besieged city.
However, official reaction worldwide appeared to be far less critical than some had expected.
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Lugar: Overseas challenges looming
Friday, November 5, 2004 Maureen Groppe - - Indianapolis Star
| Despite the high interest in foreign policy in this year's elections because of the Iraq war and the war on terrorism, many important foreign policy issues did not get much attention, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., said Thursday.
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Feeling 'fine,' Carson says she'll serve
Friday, November 5, 2004 John Tuohy - - Indianapolis Star
| U.S. Rep. Julia Carson, D-Ind., said Thursday that nothing short of a catastrophic illness could keep her from serving her fifth term in Congress, and she has no plans to retire anytime soon.
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China hopes to flush smelly toilet image
Saturday, November 6, 2004
AP's AUDRA ANG - - Indianapolis Star
| Beijing hopes the smelly reputation of its public restrooms will be, well, flushed down the toilet soon. City officials will use the 2004 World Toilet Summit, starting Nov. 17, to showcase efforts to transform the capital's lavatories from foul to fragrant, from crude to cultured.
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Muslims may be abandoning Bush
Monday, November 1, 2004 Robert King - - Indianapolis Star
| Four years ago, Muslim Americans were heartened to hear Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush assure them he would end racial profiling and the use of secret evidence in criminal investigations.
What's more, Bush's conservative views about abortion and other social issues lined up with their own. As a result, Muslims voted overwhelmingly for Bush in the 2000 election.
Four years later, though, Muslims are abandoning Bush in droves.
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Pre-election suits feed election doubts
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
AP's ANNE GEARAN - - Indianapolis Star
| Voters can be forgiven for assuming the courts may once again settle the presidential election.
New lawsuits over election rules pop up almost every day, along with reports of fraud or mischief. Thousands of lawyers are already at work for one side or the other, with more on call for Election Day.
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9th District race proving costly
Sunday, October 24, 2004 Maureen Groppe - - Indianapolis Star
| Is southeastern Indiana worth almost $5 million? Both political parties seem to think so.
Money is pouring in as Republicans and Democrats vie for the 9th District seat, considered by political observers to be among the most competitive U.S. House races in the country.
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Edwards drops zingers in campaign talks
Monday, October 25, 2004
AP's LIZ SIDOTI - - Indianapolis Star
| On jobs, John Edwards says "outsource George Bush." On health care, the Democrat claims that the president's plan is "pray you don't get sick."
And then there's the North Carolina senator's riff about prescription drug advertisements - the ones that suggest that if you take their medicine, "that night you and your spouse will be skippin' through the fields holding hands."
The Democratic vice presidential candidate's speeches on the campaign trail are full of lines that bring laughs and cheers, boos and hisses. The zingers play well with every crowd, whether loyalists at union halls or students at college campuses or the sea of supporters packed on a plaza along the picturesque Lake Michigan shore Monday.
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Bunning tries to avoid late collapse
Monday, October 25, 2004
AP's Bruce Schreiner - - Indianapolis Star
| As their ace pitcher, Jim Bunning watched the Philadelphia Phillies' seemingly insurmountable 6 1/2-game lead for the National League pennant slip away in one of the biggest collapses in baseball history.
Four decades later in what Yogi Berra might describe as "deja vu all over again," the hall of famer-turned-politican has squandered a double-digit lead in his race for a second term in the U.S. Senate.
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Cheney: Terrorists may bomb U.S. cities
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
AP's ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS - - Indianapolis Star
| Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday raised the possibility of terrorists bombing U.S. cities with nuclear weapons and questioned whether Sen. John Kerry could combat such an "ultimate threat ... you've got to get your mind around."
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Kerry warns of privatized Social Security
Sunday, October 17, 2004
AP's DAVID ESPO - - Indianapolis Star
| Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry accused President Bush on Sunday of planning a surprise second-term effort to privatize Social Security and forecast a "disaster for America's middle class."
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Scholars grapple with Godzilla legacy
Sunday, October 17, 2004
AP's John Hanna - - Indianapolis Star
| LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -- He's attacked other monsters and terrorized Japan for decades. Now Godzilla is confronting academics who want to wrestle with his legacy.
The University of Kansas plans to pay homage to the giant lizard later this month, organizing a three-day scholarly conference for the 50th anniversary of his first film.
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Bush blasts Kerry, signs tax bill in Iowa
Tuesday, October 5, 2004
AP's PETE YOST - - Indianapolis Star
| President Bush said Monday that rival John Kerry's foreign policy stands "are dangerous for world peace," leveling some of his harshest criticism of the campaign during a trip to an important battleground state. Bush also signed tax relief legislation for 94 million Americans and hit Kerry on that issue, too.
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Kerry lures persuadable voters in debate
Saturday, October 2, 2004
AP's Will Lester - - Indianapolis Star
| Many undecided voters liked what they saw from John Kerry and were more than a little concerned about President Bush's performance in the first presidential debate - but they still had questions about what Kerry would do in Iraq.
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A barrier to success
Friday, September 24, 2004 Staci Hupp - - Indianapolis Star
| Pedro Anderson left Panama three years ago to find his version of the American dream, a college soccer scholarship.
The teenager thought he had found it in Indianapolis, where he learned English, earned above-average grades and led the North Central High School soccer team to the state finals. College recruiters waited with scholarship offers.
One thing stood in his way: the ISTEP-Plus.
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1,000 Hoosier voters hobnob with candidates
Friday, September 24, 2004 John Tuohy - - Indianapolis Star
| Hey voter, what's on your mind? "Everything. It's the economy, the ecology, health care, the war," said Catherine Lindholm, a 68-year-old retired school teacher who said she's "livid" about the direction of the country.
She was one of about 1,000 people who showed up at the Indiana History Center on Thursday for HobNob, an opportunity for voters to meet candidates for local, state and federal offices.
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Campaigns come up short on real veterans issues
Wednesday, September 22, 2004 Dennis Camire - - Indianapolis Star (Gannett News Service)
| Veterans have high profiles in both presidential campaigns this year, but the things that matter to them - health care benefits and programs for retirees and survivors and the disabled - are getting little attention from the candidates.
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Bush, Kerry differ on key veterans issues
Wednesday, September 22, 2004 Dennis Camire - - Indianapolis Star (Gannett News Service)
| Many veterans are concerned about their issues being given little attention in the presidential campaign. Here are what President Bush and John Kerry have said about some of them:
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Drug plan dangerous, Buyer says
Friday, September 17, 2004 Bill Theobald - - Indianapolis Star
| Armed with samples of counterfeit drugs seized by federal officials, Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Buyer criticized Democratic Gov. Joe Kernan on Thursday for considering the reimportation of prescription drugs as a way to cut health care costs for Hoosiers.
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Edwards Cites Layoffs During Bush Years
Tuesday, September 7, 2004
AP's ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS - - Indianapolis Star
| CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (AP) -- Democrat John Edwards kept up a long-distance debate over his "two Americas" campaign theme with Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday, saying it was no illusion to thousands of laid-off workers in Ohio.
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Daniels' future linked to his past with GOP
Monday, August 30, 2004 Matthew Tully - - Indianapolis Star
| NEW YORK -- Mitch Daniels will spend Tuesday here at the Republican National Convention -- raising money, seeing old friends and underscoring his deep ties to the national Republican Party and Bush White House.
In Indiana, those ties have been on display in recent months.
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Indiana Republicans cast delegates for Bush
Monday, August 30, 2004 Matthew Tully - - Indianapolis Star
| Indiana Republicans are now officially in President George W. Bush's corner.
Former Indiana GOP Chairman Mike McDaniel was given the honor of casting Indiana's 55 delegates for the incumbent president at today's morning session of the Republican National Convention.
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Carson declines another chance to debate rivals
Thursday, August 26, 2004 John Tuohy - - Indianapolis Star
| For U.S. Rep. Julia Carson, incumbency has its privileges.
Wednesday, for the third time, the Democrat declined to take part in a candidate forum with her opponents in the Nov. 2 election for the 7th Congressional District.
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Hostettler avoids jail over gun incident
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 Maureen Groppe - - Indianapolis Star (Gannett News Service)
| WASHINGTON -- Rep. John Hostettler has received a 60-day suspended sentence for carrying a loaded gun in a Kentucky airport earlier this year.
The five-term congressman from Indiana's 8th District will not spend time in jail unless he violates the terms of his plea agreement.
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McAuliffe: Dems Not Aiding GOP Protesters
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
AP's Will Lester - - Indianapolis Star
| Democratic Party chief Terry McAuliffe says his party doesn't need to help the thousands of protesters who will descend on New York in anticipation of next week's Republican National Convention.
He says President Bush's policies provide all the inspiration they need.
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Bush, Kerry campaigns taking battle overseas
Sunday, August 15, 2004
AP's RANDALL RICHARD - - Indianapolis Star
| When decision time comes this fall, the real swing votes in the 2004 presidential election may not come from Pennsylvania, Ohio or even the notorious Florida. The ultimate Bush-Kerry battleground may turn out to be somewhere more farflung and unexpected -- Israel, Britain, even Indonesia.
And both political camps say they are getting ready for the fight, courting American voters who are living overseas and taking no chances that the expatriate vote will undermine them at the finish line.
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Bush Tells Crowd Kerry Will Raise Taxes
Sunday, August 15, 2004
AP's PETE YOST - - Indianapolis Star
| SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Trying to energize the electorate in heavily Republican western Iowa, President Bush hammered home the message Saturday that voters must keep rival John Kerry out of the White House because the Democrat will raise taxes on the middle class.
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Democrats See Nader As a Menace on Margins
Friday, August 13, 2004
AP's CALVIN WOODWARD - - Indianapolis Star
| He's dropped in polls that gave him one lonely digit to begin with and seen friends peel away - even fall melodramatically to their knees begging him to quit.
Even a little bit of Ralph Nader is too much for Democrats. They are sparing no effort to see him finish this race for the White House as nothing more than a pesky asterisk.
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Congressman apologizes for gun incident
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 Fred Kelly - - Indianapolis Star
| Rep. John Hostettler apologized after pleading guilty Tuesday to carrying a loaded gun in a Kentucky airport earlier this year.
Hostettler, a Republican, would get a 60-day suspended sentence under a plea agreement he reached with prosecutors.
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Campaign spotlight: 9th congressional district
Sunday, August 8, 2004 Kevin Corcoran - - Indianapolis Star
| The 9th Congressional District covers 20 counties. U.S. Rep. Baron Hill was first elected to Congress in 1998. Mike Sodrel has never held office. Libertarian Al Cox also is running again. Here is a look at the two major-party candidates:
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Group seeks investigation into memos on torture
Thursday, August 5, 2004 FRANK DAVIES - - Indianapolis Star (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| Twelve former judges, seven past presidents of the American Bar Association, a former FBI director and more than 100 other legal experts called Wednesday for a thorough investigation of Bush administration memos that explored ways to skirt the laws against torture.
The group also asked the administration to release all memos on the subject and urged Congress to probe how Bush officials decided to treat detainees captured in the war on terrorism.
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Roger Clemens Ejected From Son's Game
Tuesday, August 3, 2004
AP's BEN WALKER - - Indianapolis Star
| Roger Clemens got tossed for a spitter. Ejected from a youth league game after his 10-year-old son was called out in a close play, Clemens was banished to the parking lot after an umpire said the Rocket spit a sunflower seed at him.
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President Takes Another Bus Tour of Ohio
Saturday, July 31, 2004
AP's PETE YOST - - Indianapolis Star
| President Bush is confronting economic problems and concern over Iraq in states where he is in a close race with John Kerry, telling voters his administration's tax cuts and his plans for a second term are keys to the nation's security, more jobs and a healthier business climate.
In his second bus tour of Ohio in three months, the president travels Saturday to Canton, Ohio, where Democrat Kerry has linked workers' woes to Bush's presidency.
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Lieberman Returns to Convention Stage
Friday, July 30, 2004
AP's Lolita C. Baldor - - Indianapolis Star
| Four years after coming achingly close to winning the vice presidency, Sen. Joe Lieberman sparked the Democratic convention crowd Thursday night, calling on America to give John Kerry the chance to make America safe again and create a better tomorrow.
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Edwards Rallies State Delegations at DNC
Friday, July 30, 2004
AP's TOM RAUM - - Indianapolis Star
| John Edwards pronounced himself "energized and excited," despite what he called an almost sleepless night, as he dashed from one state delegation to another on Thursday to fuel momentum for the newly minted Democratic ticket.
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Democrats hope to repair image
Wednesday, July 28, 2004 Mary Beth Schneider - - Indianapolis Star
| Indiana first lady Maggie Kernan climbed to the Old North Church steeple where two lanterns once warned that the British were coming and helped ignite the American Revolution.
The historic church, said Kernan, a convention delegate, emphasized that "politics and faith have been linked forever."
Yet the fear of many Democrats is that increasingly faith is not linked in the public's eye with their party.
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So far, school cafeterias resist low-carb pressure
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
AP's Deanna Wrenn - - Indianapolis Star
| Low-carb diets like Atkins and South Beach are changing the contents of grocery stores and the orders at fast-food restaurants.
But in school lunch lines _ and at the national meeting of the school food service association this week _ bread isn't a bad word.
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Kennedy invokes ideals of 1776
Wednesday, July 28, 2004 JUDY HOLLAND - - Indianapolis Star (Hearst News Service)
| Sen. Edward Kennedy, the liberal icon of the Democratic Party and a hometown hero, rallied the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night with an arsenal of biting jibes aimed at President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
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Parents Sue Over American's Saudi Jailing
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
AP's ANNE GEARAN - - Indianapolis Star
| The parents of a 23-year-old American jailed without charges in Saudi Arabia are suing the U.S. government for what they claim was a deliberate effort to keep him out of U.S. courts and in the hands of jailers who could abuse or torture him for information.
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Hoosier delegates hooked by politics
Sunday, July 25, 2004 Mary Beth Schneider - - Indianapolis Star
| TV network executives may be yawning. Much of the public may be shrugging. But Leona Glazebrooks couldn't be more excited.
On Monday night, she'll be sitting with the rest of the Indiana delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
Glazebrooks is a 39-year-old government teacher at Warren Central High School, and the chance to be part of what she hopes is a presidency-in-the-making is, she said, "overwhelming."
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Convention site locked down tight
Sunday, July 25, 2004 Mary Beth Schneider - - Indianapolis Star
| The first thing Democrats arriving in Boston see are the smiles of the volunteers welcoming them to this city's first national political convention.
The second are the police, military and other security forces, who have transformed this convention town into a fortress.
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Campaign spotlight: 7th congressional district
Sunday, July 25, 2004 Kevin Corcoran - - Indianapolis Star
| The 7th Congressional District includes nearly all of Marion County. U.S. Rep. Julia Carson was first elected to Congress in 1996. Andy Horning has never held office. Libertarian Barry Campbell, of Indianapolis, also is running. Here is a look at the two major-party candidates:
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Hamilton now will try to bring about reforms
Saturday, July 24, 2004 Maureen Groppe - - Indianapolis Star (Gannett News Service)
| Former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., spent the past 20 months prying lose sensitive documents, handling politically sensitive interviews and reaching bipartisan agreement on how the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks happened and how future attacks could be prevented.
But his hardest work might lie ahead: getting the commission's recommendations implemented.
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Both sides claim win in court's ballot ruling
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 Kevin Corcoran - - Indianapolis Star
| The Indiana Court of Appeals weighed in Monday on a dispute over what Marion County's election ballots should look like in the Nov. 2 election
But the partisan conflict appears far from over. The three-judge panel ruled that the optical-scan ballot should be organized by party as urged by county Democrats rather than by elected office as urged by Republicans -- unless doing so would be unworkable.
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3 House contests in state a toss-up
Monday, July 19, 2004 Maureen Groppe - - Indianapolis Star (Gannett News Service)
| As many as three of Indiana's nine U.S. House races are considered potentially competitive this year.
That may not sound like much, but it's at least one more competitive race than California has.
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Iraq Blast Kills 5; Philippines Withdraws
Saturday, July 17, 2004
AP's DANICA KIRKA - - Indianapolis Star
| The Philippines withdrew 11 more soldiers from Iraq on Friday to meet the demands of kidnappers holding a truck driver hostage, ignoring warnings from Washington that the move sends the wrong signal to terrorists.
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Blair Braces for Intelligence Report Storm
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
AP's Jill Lawless - - Indianapolis Star
| Prime Minister Tony Blair, facing the prospect of another potentially critical report on Britain's participation in the war in Iraq, insisted Tuesday he made the right decision and denied it was based on bad intelligence about weapons of mass destruction.
The question was whether the report, to be released Wednesday, would blame an overall intelligence failure, or hold Blair accountable.
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South Asia Floods Leave 272 People Dead
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
AP's RAJESH MAHAPATRA - - Indianapolis Star
| Overflowing rivers swamped villages in South Asia on Tuesday, leaving millions of residents stranded in their flooded homes and 272 people dead in the annual monsoon rains, officials and news reports said.
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