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Why do young white women risk cancer to be tan?
A CDC report out this month found that nearly one in three white women aged 18 to 25 had used a tanning booth in the previous year. White women aged 18 to 21 went the most often, averaging 27.6 sessions per year—that’s over two sessions per month—while nearly 70 percent said they had gone at least 10 times in the last year.

May 23, 2012 1 Photo
Arizonashooting spree prompts somber mood at Indiana Statehouse
INDIANAPOLIS — After the weekend shooting of an Arizona congressman, Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall Shepard changed the title of a speech he’s scheduled to give this week at the Indiana Statehouse.

January 11, 2011
Indiana’s registry of cemeteries nears 10 years in the making
John Walters found his life’s calling in a long-abandoned cemetery, surrounded by fallen tombstones. Hired to mow the grass there, he couldn’t help but notice how badly damaged the markers were once the weeds were cleared away. Among the fallen tombstones was that of a child whose age at death was carved into the headstone: “One hour old.”

June 4, 2010 1 Photo
Hoosier farmers face challenges in supplying homegrown energy
Mike Shuter’s family farm in central Indiana is a long way from the Rose Garden, but on the same day that President Barack Obama signed off on new fuel-emission standards, both men were decrying the nation’s dependence on foreign oil.

June 4, 2010 3 Photos
Treasurer resumes efforts to intervene in Chrysler case
Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock hasn’t given up the fight to recoup millions of dollars lost to Indiana’s pension funds after the federal government forced automaker Chrysler into bankruptcy last year.

April 14, 2010