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Politics: Power Plays Behind Clean Energy This Session

Indiana became the first state to enact an energy-savings plan and then slash it.
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Q&A: Will Carroll, Sports Journalist and Injury Expert

"Kids and their parents are thinking they’re the next football star or the next Venus Williams or Tiger Woods, so they play the same sport year-round, and they don’t get rest."
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Deborah Paul Takes a Rowed Trip

The prospect of being confined to a vehicle worried me far less than the thought of listening to Philosophy and Intellectual History, Volume 2 for 18 hours.
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Phil Gulley: The Girl Next Door

As I write this, my wife and I are expecting our first grandchild, Madeline. The level of excitement, as you can imagine, is high.
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Under the Gun: Indy’s Lost Boys

“It seems like every other day, there’s an incident,” says Vernell Miller. “Shootings happen so frequently that folks in the community develop an apathy. That’s alarming to me.”
Brian Ciyou

My Gun Story: The Gun Enthusiast

It’s simplistic to point to one thing—guns—and say that’s the problem.
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Abdul-Rahman Kassig: A Humanitarian Remembered

Friends' recollections paint an intimate portrait of the remarkable young man they knew before the world took notice.
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The Extraordinary Life of Abdul-Rahman Kassig

"I have a chance to do something here, to take a stand," he wrote. "To make a difference.”
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Under the Gun: Do Convenience-Store Clerks Need More Protection?

“We take security very seriously," says Jay Ricker of Anderson-based Ricker Oil Co.
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My Gun Story: The IMPD Cop

After experiencing this and the emotional toll, some might hesitate to pull their gun again.