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Month: October 2019
Increased teacher pay tops gubernatorial candidate’s plans to shake-up Indiana education policy
INDIANAPOLIS — Gubernatorial candidate Josh Owens wants to ensure a $50,000 minimum salary for all public school teachers, create a $2 billion public education endowment and put an end to Indiana’s voucher program.
SPORTS MEDICINE: Irish memories of American basketball in a Communist country
As the NBA tries to do business in mainland China, the league’s brightest lights — some who are so willing to criticize their own government — suddenly don’t have the courage to express their opinions regarding real repression elsewhere.
Amusing ‘Barber of Seville’ graces Lyric Opera stage
Opera lovers still have some time to enjoy the Lyric Opera’s latest production.
REGION COLLEGIANS: Chesterton’s Kintzele races to milestone win for Princeton
It was quite the opening act for Princeton’s Jakob Kintzele.
‘An extremely rare phenomenon’: A yellow cardinal, nicknamed ‘Sunny,’ photographed in Florida
Only three yellow cardinal sightings are reported a year, making the bird’s appearance a rare “one in a million” finding, an Auburn professor said.
LaPorte County fire incinerates nearly 2,000 competitive racing pigeons
WANATAH — A structure housing nearly 2,000 racing pigeons from around the world burned to the ground late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, incinerating all the birds and prematurely ending the 2019 Hoosier Classic Million Dollar One Loft Race.
Suspect in Crown Point kidnapping case indicted in Arkansas
After allegedly kidnapping a Crown Point teen in August, a St. John man was indicted in Arkansas earlier this month for violating an interstate protection order.
Two-way lineman Byrd soars high for Andrean
LOWELL — On one of his numerous tackles for loss Friday night at Lowell, Bishop Byrd stalked toward nowhere in particular, uppercut the air and screamed mightily as he flexed.
Local designs hit the runway
MICHIGAN CITY — Traditions Event Center at White Eagle Park was packed Saturday with more than 200 spectators who came to support a local fashion designer at his inaugural show.