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10 Things to Know for Friday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
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Blues at the Crossroads offers 2 nights of non-stop entertainment
Even longtime Blues at the Crossroads festival-goers will notice some new scenery this year.
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Vigo schools health clinic exceeding expectations
Now two years old, the Vigo County Schools’ Wellness for Life Center has had more than 12,500 patient visits, saving employees and their families more than $500,000 in co-pays, said Dr. Kayur Patel, chairman of Wellness for Life.
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Conner Prairie launches Innovation Fair
The spirit of innovation in science, technology, engineering, the arts and math (STEAM) will sweep through Conner Prairie Interactive History Park, Indiana’s only Smithsonian affiliate, during the first-ever STEAM! Innovation Fair set for Sept. 15 and 16.
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Fall festivals: Autumn in the Valley offers unique ways to celebrate communities
There’s no time like autumn in the Wabash Valley. On any given weekend festivals dot the landscape — from small towns like Cory and its apples to Terre Haute and its Blues at the Crossroads. And don’t forget all those covered bridges.
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Quincy opens ISU home football season
One week after Indiana State’s football team played up a division, the Sycamores get to see how the other half lives.
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Are You Ready for Some Football? Follow Trib-Star reporters on Twitter tonight
Center Grove at TH North, 7 p.m.; West Vigo at Linton, 7 p.m.; Sullivan at Northview, 7 p.m.; Riverton Parke at Seeger, 7 p.m.; Rockville at Attica, 7 p.m.; North Central at North Vermillion, 7 p.m.; Union at Tecumseh, 7 p.m.; Olney at Marshall, 7 p.m. ...
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Preserving The Small Town
Little town of Solsberry — circa 1970 — comes back to life in Larry Shute’s garage.
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VIDEO: Healthier, more nutritious foods in school cafeteria lunch lines
Agriculture Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services Kevin Concannon on Aug. 29 announced that America’s students will see healthier and more nutritious foods in school cafeteria lunch lines this year.
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Are You Ready for Some Football? Follow Trib-Star reporters on Twitter tonight
Northview at TH North, 7 p.m.; TH South at Vincennes Lincoln, 7 p.m.; Sullivan at North Knox, 7 p.m.; Fountain Central at Riverton Parke, 7 p.m.; Rockville at South Putnam, 7 p.m.; Owen Valley at South Vermillion, 7 p.m.; Robinson at Red Hill, 7 p.m.; Marshall at Cumberland, 7 p.m.; West Vigo at Brown County, 7:30 p.m. ...
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ISU enrollment continues to climb
Indiana State University’s enrollment has climbed to its highest level in nearly 20 years, officials reported Wednesday.
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SLIDESHOW: Heated hearing for suspect in shooting death
A fight broke out Tuesday afternoon in Vigo Superior Court 6 after an exchange of words between people attending the initial hearing of an Indianapolis man accused of murder in the Friday death of a Terre Haute man.
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A century later, historians see 1912 campaign as turning point in America
Three presidents and a rebel.
As Americans live through the 2012 presidential campaign, historians are looking back a century at “the election that changed the country.” -
VIDEO: Thousands jam downtown for the annual Block Party
Easy footsteps shuffled about downtown to swirling music, as thousands rocked around the block
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PHOTO UPDATE: Neil Armstrong, 1st man on the moon, dies at 82
Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made “one giant leap for mankind” with a small step on to the moon. The modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles away has died. He was 82.
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Pats reclaim Bell: North dominates second half for victory
Unofficially, four minutes and 33 seconds was Terre Haute South’s time of possession in the second half of MIC high school football Friday night at Memorial Stadium, and its one of several statistics explaining how Terre Haute North dominated those two periods on the way to a 27-10 victory.
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Are You Ready for Some Football? Follow Trib-Star reporters on Twitter tonight
TH North vs. TH South at Memorial Stadium, 7 p.m.; Greencastle at West Vigo, 7 p.m.; Northview at Edgewood, 7 p.m.; Linton at Sullivan, 7 p.m.; North Central at North Daviess, 7 p.m.; South Vermillion at North Vermillion, 7 p.m.; Union at Riverton Parke,, 7 p.m.; Covington at Rockville, 7 p.m.; St. Joseph-Ogden at Marshall, 7 p.m.; Watseka at Robinson, 7 p.m.; Olney at Casey, 7 p.m.; Palestine-Hutsonville at Kincaid, 7 p.m.; Paris at Cumberland, 7 p.m.; Bismarck-Henning at Martinsville, 7 p.m.
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Fun for the whole family: Downtown Terre Haute Block Party is Saturday
A showcase of Terre Haute’s bustling downtown is the focus of the annual Block Party scheduled for this Saturday.
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Dinosaur age, meet the space age
Eons before man dreamed of exploring the heavens, dinosaur tracker Ray Stanford is convinced, a low-slung armored beast roamed what is now a NASA campus in Greenbelt, Md., stamping a huge footprint that went unnoticed until he spied it this summer.
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Finding love on the run: The fast rise of mobile dating apps
Mobile dating. It's all the horrors of online dating transferred to your phone, where you get creepy texts from people who view your profile and use your location to stalk you. Right?
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Are You Ready for Some Football? Follow Trib-Star reporters on Twitter tonight
TH South at Indian Creek, 7 p.m.; Sullivan at Vincennes Lincoln, 7 p.m.; Riverton Parke at Attica, 7 p.m.; Linton at Eastern Greene, 7 p.m.; Rockville at Seeger, 7 p.m.; North Central at Union, 7 p.m.; Covington at South Vermillion, 7 p.m.; TH North at Castle, 7:30 p.m.; Evansville Harrison at West Vigo, 8 p.m.
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‘Food For Thought’ book tour to make stop at Clabber Girl
More than 80 Hoosiers, including Clabber Girl president and chief operating officer Gary Morris, are featured in a book called “Food for Thought: An Indiana Harvest,” commissioned by Indiana Humanities.
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VIDEO: Schools dancin’ with new year excitement
Donning a white suit with black shirt and tie, Vigo County Schools Superintendent Dan Tanoos lined danced on the gymnasium floor Monday at Terre Haute South Vigo High School to help energize teachers during a back to school rally.
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EYES ON LONDON: A downpour — and who will medal?
Journalists from The Associated Press take readers around the 2012 Olympics and its host city.
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DNR special events to run daily at State Fair
Two DNR favorites—“Snakes Alive” and the Kids Fishin’ Pond—kick off day No. 1 of the Indiana State Fair and will be offered daily, Aug. 3-19.
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‘The Baddest Little Show on Earth’ comes to Terre Haute Aug. 8
Danny 'Lil Nasty Boy' Campbell among wrestlers with Extreme Midget Wrestling Federation to perform in Club TK's.
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Music, monster trucks, family shows at State Fair grandstand
The Indiana State Fair’s Hoosier Lottery Grandstand has a full line-up of activities for 2012. The long list of competitions, family shows and motor sports scheduled throughout the fair’s 17 days includes the return of the Lucas Oil Indy Mile AMA Pro Flat Track Grand National motorcycle race for the first time since 1998.
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Former IU basketball player Neil Reed dies
Neil Reed, the former Indiana basketball player who coach Bob Knight was caught on tape choking in 1997, has died after collapsing in his Central California home. He was 36.
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Fifth of Indiana in ‘exceptional’ drought
An updated federal report shows that Indiana’s drought continues to worsen with nearly one-fifth of the state now in the grips of an “exceptional” drought.
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5 Olympic things to know for today
Here's what to watch for at the London Olympics today, July 25:
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