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WATCH: Child's 'Ain't No Homos Gonna Make It To Heaven' Church Performance Gets Standing Ovation

Posted 05.30.2012

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Disturbing footage of what appears to be a young child's choral performance is going viral in the blogosphere. The congregation in the church, whi...

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Cops Probe Possible Connection Between Two Missing College Students

Posted 05.29.2012

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Bloomington, Ind. police see similarities between the missing person cases of two college students. Indiana University student Lauren Spierer was l...

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Lugar: No Plans To Campaign For Mourdock

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.27.2012

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Outgoing Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) said Sunday that he has no plans to campaign for Richard Mourdock, who handily beat him in a primary race earlier th...

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Ridiculously Early Look at Electoral Math

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.14.2012

Since, as any fifth-grader will tell you, we don't have a national vote for president, tracking the race by means of national polling is almost completely irrelevant.

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Trouble Down Home on the Farm: Implications of Lugar's Loss

Mark R. Kennedy | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Indiana Senate, Indiana Senate 2012, Indiana, Elections 2012, Tea Party, Dick Lugar 2012, Republicans, Politics News

While I could vigorously dispute some of Lugar's actions while applauding others, I am passionately interested in breaking the gridlock to address our nation's most pressing challenges.

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Teen Charged As Adult For Allegedly Stabbing 4-Year-Old Cousin To Death

AP | Posted 05.09.2012

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INDIANAPOLIS -- A 14-year-old Indianapolis girl has been charged as an adult in the fatal stabbing of her 4-year-old cousin. Brienne Delaney, spokesw...

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Indiana Senate Race: What Do the Results Mean?

J.B. Poersch | Posted 05.09.2012

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The Tea Party cost Republicans Senate seats in 2010, and they're poised to provide Democrats another gift in 2012: Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock.

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Fanatical GOP Could Cause Constitutional Crisis

New York Magazine | Posted 05.09.2012

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The defeat of Richard Lugar in the Indiana Republican Senate primary is the kind of event that would have been shocking just a half-dozen years ago, a...

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Why Lugar Lost

Mark Meissner | Posted 05.08.2012

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Tuesday marked the end of the distinguished career of Indiana's longest-serving U.S. senator ever, Richard Lugar. This shocking turn of events was unthinkable for almost all of Lugar's 36-year career in the U.S. Senate. So what happened?

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Lugar and Dewhurst Test the Power of the Tea Party

Chris Ladd | Posted 05.07.2012

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The Tea Party's appeal may be waning nationally, but in the Republican heartland they remain a potent force. The Texas and Indiana Senate races are a fine test of the Tea Party's ability to drive the GOP farther and farther out of the national mainstream.

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Super PACs outspend favorite candidate in Indiana Senate race

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.18.2012

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By Michael Beckel and John DunbariWatch NewsSuper PACs and other outside groups are on track to spend more on tea party favorite Richard Mourdock in...

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Lugar and the Tea Party

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.07.2012

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Poll: Dick Lugar In Deep Trouble

The Huffington Post | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.04.2012

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Embattled Indiana Republican Sen. Dick Lugar has fallen behind his Tea Party challenger in a new poll that finds the veteran legislator in danger of l...

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Senate Race Attracting Highest Outside Spending In The Country

The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 05.03.2012

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Indiana's Senate race has attracted about $4 million in outside spending, the highest of any congressional race this year, according to the Indianapol...

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12-Year-Old Boy Named Honorary Marine Before Death

Posted 05.02.2012

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Throughout his 12 years, Cody Green battled leukemia like the bravest of warriors. For that, he was named an honorary Marine just before he died. ...

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GOP Senator In Trouble Ahead Of Primary Battle

Roll Call | Posted 05.01.2012

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In the age of modern campaigns, Sen. Dick Lugar’s political obituary could have been avoided. A year ago, the Republican lawmaker was in a positi...

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Defense To Cyberbullying: 'We Used Emoticons'

AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 04.27.2012

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Even if three Indiana girls were just kidding around and used emoticons and LOLs when they discussed killing classmates on Facebook, t...

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Airline Passenger Complains To Police About Attendant Waking Him

The Indianapolis Star | Posted 04.24.2012

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A 37-year-old Arizona man filed a police complaint against a flight attendant who tapped him on the knee with a magazine to wake him up....

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Man Stole From Woman At Funeral, Stuffed Items In Underwear: Cops

Posted 04.18.2012

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An Indiana man was caught red-handed allegedly stealing a woman's purse at a funeral and then stuffing its contents into his underwear. The Herald ...

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Mitt Puts Foot in Mouth Again

Dominic Carter | Posted 04.17.2012

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After all it's Mitt Romney. One step forward, two steps backwards.

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'Sextortionist' Blackmailed Children Into Sending Explicit Photos Online, Feds Say

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 04.09.2012

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An Indiana man facing child "sextortion" charges boasted to one of his 14-year-old victims that he wouldn't be caught, federal authorities announced t...

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Lugar, Mourdock Face Off On Gas Prices, 'Mickey Mouse Attacks'

The Huffington Post | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 04.03.2012

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Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) and his GOP challenger, Indiana state treasurer Richard Mourdock, each released new attack ads Monday, with Lugar accusing hi...

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Personhood Measures in Disguise

Lynn M. Paltrow | Posted 04.03.2012

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While people in Mississippi were considering Proposition 26 and deciding whether fertilized eggs and embryos would be treated as entirely separate legal persons, a prosecutor and courts were addressing the same question behind the scenes, where voters have no role or voice.

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School Resumes For All In Tornado-Hit Indiana Town

AP | Posted 04.02.2012

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SCOTTSBURG, Ind. — A police escort on Monday guided school buses taking some 500 students to the temporary home of their tornado-devastated sout...

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One and Done (for Now) After Reading Certain Novelists

Dave Astor | Posted 05.28.2012

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Of course, not reading more of an author is a no-brainer when you thoroughly dislike the first novel you try by him or her. But things get trickier when you have some positive feelings about a book, as I did with The Magnificent Ambersons.

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