INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indianapolis initiative unveiled on Thursday aims to combat the city's panhandling problem while simultaneously helping the needy.
Tamper-proof boxes will be installed where residents can give to agencies that reach out to people in need, rather than giving cash to panhandlers, 6News' Julie Pursley reported.
Unclear on the concept:
PORTAGE -- Volunteering and wind energy could both be in the future for Portage Township Schools.
School Board members talked at their Wednesday discussion meeting about the possibility of requiring high school students to volunteer to graduate.
Member Tom Pappas supported the idea, saying the program would help students learn civic responsibilities.
Never mind driving -- maybe we need a law against walking while using a headset:
LAKE STATION, Ind. (AP) - Police say a freight train hit a 16-year-old Lake Station boy, hurling him 70 feet.
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He says Nathan Furlong was walking along the train tracks when he was hit about 2 p.m. Furlong is a sophomore at Edison High School.
Omigod! Only 1,355 days until Super Bowl XLVI! For those a little rusty on the whole Roman numerals thing, the Indianapolis Star provides this helpful advice:
X = 10
L = 50
V = 5
I = 1
Indianapolis is getting the 2012 Super Duper Bowl. Zillions and zillions of dollars! A world-class city! They like us, they really like us!
Hope the Colts are still there by then.
So, human personalities are classified along five key dimensions -- agreeableness, conscientiousness, extrovertism, neuroticism and openness to experience. And it turns out there are geographic clusters of these traits in the United States:
Mike Redmond of the Indianapolis Business Journal captures perfectly the "civic rah-rah" needed to initiate and sustain a Super Duper Bowl bid:
The whole community, huh? Maybe they had a referendum. Was it on the back of the primary ballot? Or did they take a survey? If they did, they forgot to call me.
Oh, I know. They went door-to-door, didn't they? I must have been upstairs when they knocked.
I missed the big "Welcome Home, Vietnam Vets" service in Indianapolis on Saturday, and I do like a good pity party:
For many veterans, there were no welcome-home parades or other celebrations. Hahn, instead, remembers getting off a plane in Chicago after spending two years in Vietnam and being spat upon by a woman protesting the unpopular war.
That 6-year-old Hoagland Elementary student who slapped a classmate on the bottom isn't going to be cited for "sexual harassment" after all:
The boy's mother said an administrator for East Allen County Schools called her Wednesday and said the wording in paperwork detailing the incident would be changed, which this morning she was told would be something along the lines of “indecent behavior.”
I dunno. "Indecent behavior" doesn't sound much better.
Oh, those brave TV journalists, risking life, limb and being caught outside the hospitality tent without an umbrella in order to understand the plight of the homeless:
Local media stars are sleeping under the stars this week as part of a campaign to raise awareness and funds for homeless Hoosiers.
