Tony Bennett wants to add a new required high school course to the curriculum:
Indiana's superintendent of public instruction wants all Hoosier students to take one course online before graduating from high school.
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Tony Bennett wants to add a new required high school course to the curriculum:
Indiana's superintendent of public instruction wants all Hoosier students to take one course online before graduating from high school.
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Ah, the advance of civilization:
NANUET, N.Y. - A 290-pound New York man is steaming mad at the White Castle fast-food chain, which he claims repeatedly broke promises to make the booths in his local eatery bigger.
Martin Kessman, 64, filed a lawsuit against the fast-food giant last week in Manhattan federal court, claiming that the uncomfortable booths violate the civil rights of fat people.
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Good Lord, what is this, a football game or bucking up the troops for the last stand at the Alamo?
INDIANAPOLIS -- Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay took to Twitter Monday morning to address some of the fans' Monday morning quarterbacking in the wake of the team's dismal performance in a 34-7 loss to Houston in the NFL season opener on Sunday.
Reader Bernie Konger emailed us three editorial cartoons published in The News-Sentinel in 1949, along with the observation that they would "fit into today's political picture." The great divide between left and right stays the same -- the players and specific issues may change, but the debate doesn't really change.
At least today's cartoonists try to be funny. It's hard to imagine readers actually taking these stodgy "oh, look how cleverly everything is labeled" drawings seriously.
For the "well, duh" file:
If you woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning, then try to find comfort in the fact that you're not alone.
Monday is officially the most miserable day of the week, a survey has found.
Gov. Mitch Daniels has a book coming out, which puts him in an elite group:
Of the nation's 50 sitting governors, almost a quarter of them are authors. Four, including Daniels, have written tomes while serving as their state's chief executive. That number is set to increase by one early next year when South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's book, "Can't is Not an Option," hits the bookshelves.
How the 10th anniversary of our "day that will live in infamy" differed from the 10th anniversary of our national 9/11 trauma:
Well, he certainly was right, wasn't he?
US President John F. Kennedy "worried for the country" should his vice-president Lyndon Johnson succeed him, according to taped interviews of Kennedy's widow to be aired next week on US television.
