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Wooden beam could be detached part of shipwreck

A wooden beam that has long been the focus of the search for a 17th century shipwreck in northern Lake Michigan was not attached to a buried vessel as searchers had suspected, but still may have come from the elusive Griffin or some other ship, archaeologists said Wednesday. Shipwreck hunter ...

Donations herald Ind. couple's Vaudeville career

A western Indiana museum is celebrating the arrival of a collection of items marking the Vaudeville careers of a Terre Haute woman and her husband. An Oklahoma City woman donated the items heralding the travels of Rose Fehrenbach and her husband, Edward Pierce, as they performed around the globe. The ...

Scientists: Timber in Lake Michigan centuries old

A wooden beam embedded at the bottom of northern Lake Michigan appears to have been there for centuries, underwater archaeologists announced Tuesday, a crucial finding as crews dig toward what they hope is the carcass of a French ship that disappeared while exploring the Great Lakes in the 17th century. ...

Catholic religious order opens abuse files

A Roman Catholic religious order released an unusually candid report Tuesday outlining how its leaders failed for decades to stop sex abuse in its schools and other ministries. The Capuchin Franciscan Province of St. Joseph, which spans 10 Midwestern states, asked experts in clergy sex abuse to provide a full ...

FDA investigates Zyprexa Relprevv patient deaths

Federal regulators are investigating the deaths of two patients who received injections of a longer-lasting version of Eli Lilly's antipsychotic Zyprexa. The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that the patients died three to four days after receiving an appropriate dose of the drug known as Zyprexa Relprevv. They had ...

Fort Wayne, Ind., Museum of Art technical director Brian Williamson, left, and executive director Charles Shepard talk Monday, June 17, 2013, of the damage to Mark di Suvero's steel sculpture "Helmholtz." An Indiana man has been arrested on drunken driving charges after police say he ran his vehicle into the sculpture. (AP Photo, The Journal Gazette/Samuel Hoffman)   NEWS-SENTINEL OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALES; MAGS OUT

Big bill to repair damaged Fort Wayne sculpture

Fort Wayne Museum of Art officials estimate it could cost more than $200,000 and take perhaps a year to repair a large steel sculpture that was knocked over and damaged by a truck that barreled across its lawn. The 8- to 10-ton sculpture sitting outside the museum was hit early ...

Map locates the search for a 17th century, French ship

Remote Mich. village abuzz over shipwreck search

Commercial fisherman Larry Barbeau's comings and goings usually don't create much of a stir in this wind-swept Lake Michigan outpost, but in the past few days, his phone jangles the minute he arrives home. Barbeau's 46-foot boat is the offshore nerve center for an expedition seeking the underwater grave of ...

Football writers honor Colts coach Chuck Pagano

Chuck Pagano spent most of last season finding new ways to coach football. During his ordeal of chemotherapy treatments for leukemia, he watched games from his bed with his wife, communicated with players and assistants by phone and text messages and scoured game film on his home computer. The Colts ...

In this May 29, 1985, photo provided by the Lake County, Ind., Police Department is Paula Cooper who was sentenced to death when she was 15 after stabbing a 78-year-old Bible school teacher 33 times during a 1985 robbery in Gary, Ind. A Department of Correction spokesman says Cooper, now 43, was released from an Indiana prison Monday, June 17, 2013. A state court overturned her death sentence in 1988. (AP Photo/Lake County Police Depatmrnt via The Indianapolis Star)

Indiana woman condemned for killing at 15 is freed

A woman who was sentenced to death at age 16 for taking part in the torture and murder of a 78-year-old bible studies teacher was released from an Indiana prison Monday after growing to middle age behind bars. Paula Cooper, whose 1986 death sentence enraged human rights activists and drew ...

N. Indiana lake resort opens after 5-year closure

A northern Indiana lake resort that was once a religious retreat for a century has reopened to visitors after being shut down five years ago. The first guests checked into the Oakwood Inn Resort & Conference Center at Lake Wawasee near Syracuse last week after extensive renovation work was done, ...

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