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Danica Patrick prepares to climb into her car during practice for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup series Coca-Cola 600 auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)

Patrick: Another Indy 500 'less and less likely'

Danica Patrick still follows the Indianapolis 500 closely, even pre-organizing her race day schedule this Sunday so she can watch most of the event. As for participating in the race again, that's a different story. Patrick, who first earned her popularity in open-wheel racing, said her focus is on the ...

Hearing ends in retrial bid in IU student's death

It will likely be months before a judge rules on whether to order a retrial for the man convicted of killing an Indiana University student who disappeared during a 2000 bike ride. A Morgan County judge gave prosecutors and defense attorneys for John Myers II until Sept. 1 to submit ...

Ex-Chicago officer sentenced in Latin Kings case

A former Chicago police officer has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for his role in armed robberies of drug dealers for the Latin Kings street gang in northwestern Indiana and Chicago. The judge could have sentenced Antonio Martinez Jr., 42, to life in prison, but agreed Thursday ...

Ind. man charged in estranged girlfriend's killing

A southwestern Indiana man accused of fatally shooting his estranged girlfriend outside of a restaurant where their son had celebrated his eighth-grade graduation had been ordered off the premises by police before he returned with a shotgun, authorities said. Jason Perry, 31, was charged Thursday with murder in the death ...

Southern Cal increases lead in NCAA women's golf

Annie Park shot a 2-under 70 in windy conditions Thursday to take the individual lead and help Southern California increase its lead to 17 strokes with one round left in the NCAA Women's Golf Championships. Park, a freshman from Levittown, N.Y., who won the Pac-12 Championship and tied for first ...

Miami Heat center Chris Bosh (1) pressures Indiana Pacers forward David West (21) during the first half of Game 1 in their NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals playoff series, Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Heat, Pacers say Game 2 should be even better

Losing a game at the final buzzer, no less than a playoff game on the road against the reigning NBA champion Miami Heat, would seem to have potential to demoralize the Indiana Pacers. Or not. "Our belief," Pacers coach Frank Vogel said Thursday, "has strengthened." Barely 12 hours after LeBron ...

This image made from video provided by Ayako Wada-Katsumata shows glucose-averse German cockroaches avoiding a dab of jelly, which contains glucose, and favoring the peanut butter. For 30 years, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out sweet-tasting bait mixed with poison. But in the early 1990s, a formerly effective product stopped working. Some cockroaches had lost their sweet tooth, rejecting the corn syrup meant to attract them. Later studies showed they were specifically turned off by the sugar glucose in the syrup. Scientists reported Thursday, May 23, 2013 that the key is an altered behavior of certain nerves that signal the brain about foods. (AP Photo/Ayako Wada-Katsumata)

Cockroaches quickly lose sweet tooth to survive

For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong. A killer product stopped working. Cockroach populations there kept rising. Mystified researchers tested and discarded theory after theory ...

Center Grove students put best inventions forward

Central Indiana high school students are putting their best ideas forward as they develop inventions and market them to local businesses. The 11 students at Center Grove High School used three-dimensional computer programs to create drawings of their products. They updated the plans as they discovered which features didn't work ...

E. Ind. man confesses to role in drug slaying

An eastern Indiana man has confessed to his role in the brutal slaying of a man he and four co-defendants allegedly stabbed and shot to death during a robbery. A Wayne County judge accepted 19-year-old Robert Campbell's guilty plea Wednesday to a murder charge in the March 2012 killing of ...

Ex-Ind. college athlete sentenced in rape

A former University of Saint Francis athlete has been sentenced to a year in prison for his role in the rape of an incapacitated woman at a party. Twenty-three-year-old Troy Turner apologized during an Allen County court hearing Wednesday during which he was sentenced on a sexual battery charge. The ...

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