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  Nothing to do this weekend? The Trib-Star's 'BASH section offers some suggestions

  Community Theatre of Terre Haute’s main stage season finale opens this Friday, with the hit Broadway comedy “Social Security,” directed by Sonni Crawford.

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  Kid Rock, Rolling Stones on scalping, summer tours

  NEW YORK — Kid Rock is a scalper.

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  ISU plans hearing on proposed tuition/fees increase

  Indiana State University will conduct a public hearing at 2 p.m. June 4 to receive input on a proposed 1.95 percent increase in student tuition and mandatory fees for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years.

State News

State News

• Lawmakers looking for ways to patch road repair funds

  Freshman lawmaker Alan Morrison and a Democrat from a neighboring district, state Rep. Clyde Kersey, have signed on as co-authors of legislation aimed at freeing up millions of more dollars for local road repair.

  January 23, 2013 1 Photo  

• Pence calls for more vocational training to close ‘skills gap’

  Vocational education — in which students focus on skilled trades that require an increasing amount of technical know-how — can provide students “with a pathway to success,” Gov. Mike Pence said in his State of State speech.

  January 23, 2013 1 Photo  

• Vintage campers aren’t just a job for Peru native

  Dan Piper says he has an incurable disease. He calls it “silver fever.” The main symptom? According to 54-year-old Piper, it’s the obsessive urge to collect shiny, metallic vintage camping trailers.

  January 22, 2013 1 Photo  

• Maureen Hayden: Another Daniels may get state’s criminal code on track

  Two years ago, Gov. Mitch Daniels set out to reform prison sentencing in Indiana, convinced that the state’s spiraling prison costs were eventually going to squeeze out other budget priorities, including education.

  January 20, 2013 1 Photo  

• Bill offers re-write of state’s criminal code

  Indiana may join a growing number of states that are reducing penalties for low-level drug crimes while increasing the punishment for violent criminals and sexual predators.

  January 16, 2013  

• Pence calls on Hoosiers to do their part

  Moments after taking the oath of office at his outdoor inauguration, Gov. Mike Pence called on Hoosiers to do their part to boost the state’s economy, education and quality of life, saying “each of us has a role to play.”

  January 14, 2013 1 Photo  

• ‘Parks and Rec’ episode shot in Indianapolis airs Thursday

  What do actor Rob Lowe, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich have in common?

  January 14, 2013 2 Photos  

• Pence to take oath in outdoor ceremony

  Indiana’s 50th governor spent his pre-inaugural weekend dining and dancing with contributors at a fancy ball, greeting supporters at a “family fun” event at a race car factory, and worshiping with several hundred people at a prayer service where some requests to heaven may have been weather-related.

  January 14, 2013  

• Lawmaker sees support growing for arming teachers

  Republican state Sen. Jim Tomes says there may growing support for his proposal to train more school teachers in the use of firearms.

  January 13, 2013  

• Support for gun-carrying teachers is growing, Republican senator says

  Republican state Sen. Jim Tomes says there may be growing support for his proposal to train more school teachers in the use of firearms.

  January 13, 2013  

• Bill would allow some criminal records to be expunged

  Republican State Rep. Jud McMillin calls himself a “do-the-crime, do-the-time kind of guy” but says it’s time for Indiana to build some more forgiveness into the criminal justice system.

  January 9, 2013  

• More GOP lawmakers questioning same-sex marriage ban

  Both publicly and privately, GOP lawmakers are expressing doubts about a measure that saw wide support in past sessions and they cite changing public opinion on whether the state’s current ban on same-sex marriage should be locked into the state’s constitution.

  January 8, 2013  

• State legislators plan push to require cursive writing in school

  A bill that would require Indiana’s public schools to teach cursive writing is one of the first items that may come up for debate as the Indiana General Assembly begins its 2013 session.

  January 7, 2013  

• Legislature enters budget session with cash surplus

  The Indiana General Assembly starts its 2013 session Monday in some unfamiliar but welcome territory: Flush with more than $1 billion in new revenue to spend — plus $2 billion in reserves — while crafting the state’s two-year budget plan.

  January 6, 2013 1 Photo  

• Daniels extols the power of a 'tiny example'

  Much of what Mitch Daniels has done, from consolidating procurement across state agencies to selling off a fleet of unused state vehicles, has been about making government more efficient, he said.

  January 5, 2013 1 Photo  

• Bill seeks to put more police in state schools

  Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller is backing legislation that could put more police officers in schools.

  January 3, 2013  

• Indiana’s new US senator stakes place in the ‘middle’

  In a conference call with reporters before he was sworn in as Indiana’s newest senator Thursday, Joe Donnelly said he’ll be traveling the state next week seeking the support of Hoosiers to help him forge a stronger role for what he called “the middle.”

  January 3, 2013 1 Photo  

• Daniels, RV-1 hit the end of the road

  Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels took his final trip in RV-1 Wednesday, traveling from Indianapolis to the RV/MH Hall of Fame in Elkhart.

  December 19, 2012 1 Photo  

• Bosma may face divisions within party

  Speaker of the Indiana House Brian Bosma says his pledge to restore civility to the chamber remains in force as the Indiana General Assembly prepares to take on some contentious social and fiscal issues when it convenes in January.

  December 18, 2012 1 Photo  

• Maureen Hayden: Treat gun deaths as major health problem

  Last Friday afternoon, in the wake of the unfathomable tragedy that struck the community of Newtown, Conn., Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels directed that flags throughout the state be flown at half-staff until sunset Tuesday.

  December 16, 2012 1 Photo  

• New school leader making allies, even across party lines

  Indiana’s new schools superintendent, Glenda Ritz, is making some allies in the Statehouse: Republican legislators who pushed the education-reform laws that triggered a wave of voter discontent that carried the Democrat Ritz into her new job.

  December 15, 2012 1 Photo  

• Support for gay-marriage ban wavering

  Noting what he called the “rapidly evolving” shift in public opinion reflected in a poll released Thursday, an influential, conservative Republican state senator said he’ll oppose such a measure if, as expected, it comes up for debate in the 2013 session.

  December 13, 2012 1 Photo  

• Survey finds support for lighter pot law, opposition to same-sex marriage ban

  A majority of Hoosiers are ready to support the decriminalization of marijuana and oppose putting a same-sex marriage ban into the state constitution, according to a new survey released today.

  December 13, 2012  

• Navy's top admiral visits Crane

  The highest ranking admiral in the U.S. Navy visited NSA Crane on Monday and assured the facility will grow even if the government goes off the fiscal cliff.

  Adm. Jon Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations, came to the base with Sen. Dan Coats, Sen.-elect Joe Donnelly and Congressman Todd Young. Indiana Lt. Gov.-elect Sue Ellspermann also joined the tour later.

  December 11, 2012 1 Photo 1 Slideshow  

• Full-day kindergarten enrollment up 19 percent after state boosts dollars to local schools

  Indiana’s decision to increase funding for full-day kindergarten has led to an increase in students enrolling in kindergarten programs across the state and more state dollars doled out to local schools.

  December 10, 2012 1 Photo  

• Lugar calls for civility in politics

  With just a few short weeks left in office, Indiana’s longest serving member of Congress exhorted an audience of high school students to venture into the public sphere with a willingness to seek common ground with others.

  December 9, 2012  

• Maureen Hayden: Lugar says DeMint can muster millions to support ultra-conservatives

  The surprise resignation of ultra-conservative U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint was seen by some as an indicator of the weakening power of the tea party movement that helped put an end to the career of the nation’s most senior U.S. senator, Richard Lugar.

  December 9, 2012 1 Photo  

• Head of state budget-writing committee is healer by trade

  Tim Brown is the lone physician in the Indiana General Assembly. In his 18 years in the Legislature, the Crawfordsville emergency-room doctor has never had a direct role in crafting the state’s two-year fiscal plan that now amounts to about $28 billion in spending.

  December 6, 2012  

• State education board votes to change licensing rules

  Over the protests of teachers’ unions and some universities that train new teachers, the State Board of Education has changed the licensing and credential process rules for K-12 educators.

  December 5, 2012 1 Photo  

• Governor’s new book includes concession speech never made

  Gov. Mitch Daniels has made headlines — as well as fans and detractors — with some of his sharp-worded speeches on fiscal policy, social issues and education reform. But a new book chronicling some of those words contains one speech he never made: His 2008 “concession” speech.

  December 4, 2012 2 Photos  

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