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  Banks of the Wabash Festival kicks off

  The 2013 Banks of the Wabash Festival, scheduled May 23 through June 1 in Fairbanks Park, celebrates 40 years along the banks of the Wabash River, 30 under the sponsorship of the Terre Haute Parks and Recreation Department.

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  Banks of the Wabash Festival is more than just yearly entertainment

  Pioneers think counterintuitively. Where others see widespread apathy, they focus on the possibility for progress. In a way, the 2013 Year of the River celebration began in the 1970s.

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  Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys

  GRAPEVINE, Texas — In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization.

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• Charts: Growth of sports participation by women, girls

  These graphics illustrate how girls' participation in sports has grown at the high school and college level since the passage of Title IX in 1972.

  June 25, 2012 1 Photo  

• VIDEO: Summer isn’t fun when you’re hungry

  Thousands of children in Wabash Valley communities are on summer vacation. While this brings to mind days of fun and freedom for many school children, for the millions across our country facing hunger it means losing the one place they can count on for a meal. It is currently estimated that more than 16 million children are at risk of hunger throughout America.

  June 11, 2012 1 Photo  

• VIDEO: 'Ring of fire' solar eclipse

  The solar eclipse that took place Sunday evening was an annular eclipse, one in which the moon blocks almost all of the sun. Some of the best viewing was in Asia, as with this video filmed in Japan. 

  May 23, 2012 1 Photo  

• VIDEO: Suspected TB case at Woodrow Wilson

  A suspected case of tuberculosis at Woodrow Wilson Middle School has prompted free testing next week for students and staff at the east side Terre Haute school. Testing is not mandatory and parental permission is required for students.

  May 21, 2012 2 Photos 1 Video  

• AUDIO: Sidewalk Prophets singer discusses Terre Haute boyhood, and Saturday's concert

  Terre Haute native Dave Frey leads his Dove Award-winning band, Sidewalk Prophets, into a 7 p.m. Saturday concert at his hometown church, Maryland Community Church, joining opening performers Justin Hoeppner and Josh Wilson.

  May 16, 2012 3 Photos  

• Video: President Obama endorses same-sex marriage

  A day after an amendment banning gay marriage passed in North Carolina, President Barack Obama tells ABC News that he believes same-sex couples should be able to get married.

  May 11, 2012 1 Photo  

• Viral video: Family sings 'Bohemian Rhapsody' on way to school

  One dad starts the weekdays off right by staging a sing-along to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" with his three kids during their morning ride to school.

  April 30, 2012 1 Photo  

• PHOTO TRIBUTE: 100 years of baseball at Fenway Park

  This year Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, celebrates its 100th anniversary as America's oldest Major League stadium -- and the setting for some of baseball's greatest players, historic wins and crushing losses. That sacred magic is captured in two exhibits at the 20-year-old Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, a Boston suburb.

  April 24, 2012 1 Photo 1 Slideshow  

• VIDEO: Lightning illuminates tornado as it hits Okla. town

  The assistant editor from the Woodward News in Oklahoma captured this video as a tornado touched down early Sunday morning, killing five people and injuring dozens more.

  April 19, 2012 1 Photo  

• VIDEO: Tales of survival from Woodward's deadly tornado

  Stirring stories of survival are emerging from Woodward's tornado, but none was more compelling than that of an 87-year-old widow who escaped unscathed by hiding in her bedroom closet while her house exploded around her. Sixty-five years earlier she survived Oklahoma's deadliest tornado, one that killed 116 of her neighbors, by hiding under a dining room table.

  April 19, 2012 1 Photo  

• He is Risen

  An onerous cross dragged along the ground, as a bloodied man portraying Jesus hauled it uphill to the site of his own crucifixion.

  April 8, 2012 5 Photos 1 Video  

• Viral video: Rain delay antics at college baseball game

  Fans aren't the only ones who get bored during rain delays in college baseball -- the players do too. But the teams from the Southern Miss and Ole Miss found some creative ways to pass the time this week during an extended delay at Trustmark Park in Pearl, Miss.

  April 6, 2012  

• VIDEO: Texas tornado tosses truck trailers

  A TV station helicopter captured amazing video of a Dallas-area tornado picking up truck trailers and tossing them hundreds of feet in the air. A powerful storm system caused several reported tornadoes across north Texas on Tuesday.

  April 3, 2012 1 Photo  

• 7 reasons why 'Hunger Games' slays 'Twilight'

  The next great young-adult movie franchise is already giving some sparkly, angst-ridden vampires a run for their money. Suzanne Collins' "Hunger Games" book trilogy has already caught fire among a wider demographic of readers, and the movie – that opened Friday, March 23 -- was poised to break opening weekend records set by "Twilight."

  March 26, 2012 1 Photo 1 Slideshow  

• SLIDESHOW: Peyton Manning through the years Peyton Manning's storied career with the Colts is over. Take a look back at some of the legendary quarterback's most memorable moments in this photo gallery.

  March 9, 2012  

• VIDEO: Mending Broken Hearts

  Regina Nieft calmly entered Union Hospital early Thursday, confident and hopeful that the complicated cardiac surgery scheduled for most of the day would improve and extend her life.

  February 26, 2012 10 Photos 1 Video  

• VIDEO: 5 vehicles in Tuesday morning crash

  Six people suffered injuries on Tuesday morning in a fiery five-vehicle crash that featured what a witness called an amazing, selfless rescue of one driver who was trapped in a car after it was struck from behind at a Terre Haute intersection.

  February 22, 2012 1 Photo  

• VIDEO: New display at Historical Society looks back at golden days of radio in Wabash Valley

  You can almost hear the nostalgic sounds of radio broadcasts long past in newest exhibit on display at the Vigo County Historical Society.

  February 15, 2012 6 Photos 1 Video  

• VIDEO: On the Banks of the Wabash far away …

  Paul Dresser left Terre Haute a niche in history.
  Opportunism, squabbling and fading memories gradually washed that gift away, like the unending flow of the Wabash River he immortalized in song.
   

  February 6, 2012 9 Photos 1 Video  

• VIDEO: Social media command center helps Super Bowl visitors

  Indianapolis is the first Super Bowl host city to utilize the power of Twitter and other social media to help football fans get the most out of football's biggest event.

  February 2, 2012 1 Photo  

• VIDEO: Steve Weatherford homecoming

  The only three New York Giants players who touched the football on a field goal that propelled their team into Sunday’s Super Bowl against the New England Patriots visited Terre Haute North Vigo High School Tuesday — where a throng of Patriots cheered for the Giants.

  February 1, 2012 6 Photos 1 Video  

• VIDEO: Tavern in Colts country welcomes Pats fans

  The Super Bowl host city loves its Colts and loves to hate the archrival Patriots. But a bar on the doorstep of Lucas Oil Stadium stands out as a geographic anomaly.

  February 1, 2012 1 Photo  

• SLIDESHOW: Super Bowl Media Day Thousands of fans and members of the press turned out in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI Media Day.

  February 1, 2012  

• SLIDESHOW: Giants arrive in Indianapolis The New York Giants arrived in Indianapolis Monday to begin preparations for their matchup with the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI.

  January 31, 2012  

• SLIDESHOW: Week-long Super Bowl celebration begins Football fans descend on Super Bowl Village in downtown Indianapolis in advance of Super Bowl XLVI between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants.

  January 31, 2012  

• SLIDESHOW: Patriots best Ravens in AFC Championship The Patriots defeat the Baltimore Ravens 23-20 in the AFC Championship game, securing a spot in Super Bowl XLVI against the New York Giants.

  January 23, 2012  

• VIDEO/POLL: Websites go dark in protest of anti-piracy bill

  Dozens of internet websites – from web resources like Wikipedia to online communities like Reddit – went dark Wednesday in protest of a bill in Congress that aims to stop online piracy.

  January 18, 2012 1 Photo 2 Links  

• VIDEO: Total-ly In: Education students ‘totally immersed in the schools’

  Kayla Blackburn stood in front of the fourth grade classroom with a book clasped in her hands.
  “I am excited to see what happens next because I have never read this story before,” said the senior elementary and special education major from Carmel. “Fingers up, on the first word. I’m going to start reading, then I’ll take volunteers.”
   

  January 12, 2012  

• VIDEO: Building trades may be cut from right-to-work bill

  A conservative Republican lawmaker will push to exempt 15 building trade unions from a controversial labor bill that would put an end to mandatory union dues.
   

  January 10, 2012 1 Photo 1 Video  

• VIDEO: 4 Indiana Guard soldiers’ bodies return to homeland

  The bodies of four members of an Indiana National Guard unit killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan have been returned to the United States. The father of the only survivor of the roadside bombing says his son is in a drug-induced coma at a Virginia hospital.

  January 9, 2012 1 Photo  

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