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Ball State Alum returns to teach comedy
MUNCIE, Ind. — Ball State’s Improv Comedy Club Absolunacy hosted an annual comedy festival called Chirp Up. Five colleges from the Midwest came to Ball State to improve their craft in improv comedy. Comedy brings smiles and laughter. Dozens of future comedians at the Chirp Up festival are...
Indiana’s Weather For Today
No severe weather in the state yesterday, but wind gusted to 47 mph in Indy, Muncie, and Terre Haute. The peak gust was 45 mph in Lafayette. Still gusting to around 20 mph today, but much quieter, and that goes for radar also. Strong high pressure is in place stretching...
New Castle residents charged with dealing meth, Xanax after drug task force raid
NEW CASTLE, Ind. — Two New Castle residents face a variety of drug-related charges after members of the Henry County Area Drug Task Force served a search warrant at a southside house. Amber Dawn Poe, 40, and Jamis Linn Purvis, 54, are each charged in Henry Circuit Court 1...
Tickets on sale for Soup Kitchen of Muncie's 30th anniversary gala
MUNCIE, Ind. — Tickets are on sale now for “Painting a Brighter Picture by Fighting Hunger, Feeding Hope,” the Soup Kitchen of Muncie’s 30th Anniversary Gala, Saturday, April 20, at the Horizon Convention Center. A press release said the event will offer "an evening of art-filled...
NASA to broadcast eclipse from Indianapolis Motor Speedway using BSU telescopes
MUNCIE, Ind. — Ball State University is collaborating with NASA to provide live broadcast coverage of the total solar eclipse on April 8. Dayna Thompson, director of the Charles W. Brown Planetarium, and Dr. John Millis, department chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy and professor of physics, will serve as telescope operators during the eclipse at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. NASA plans to livestream the eclipse from multiple sites, including from the Ball State telescopes in Indianapolis.
Ball State welcomes new Cardinals
MUNCIE, Ind. — An annual opportunity for transfer students to interact with the Ball State community, tour their future home and discover the institution’s resources took place over the weekend. On Friday, March 22, “Transfer Visit Day” invited transfer students and their guests to this orientation day event....
Ball State football is back with spring practice
MUNCIE, Ind. — Ball State football is back on the fields for spring practice. The Cards last season struggled with a 4-8 record but look to learn and grow this spring. “For us to get on the field here for spring practice, we are allowed 15 practices per NCAA rules. So the great thing is we have worked out for 7 weeks here during the offseason. Primary in the weight room, but I really want to see all the hard work put in over the offseason the guys have put in,” said Ball State football’s head coach Mike Neu.
Baseball: All you need to know for Ohio's series with Ball State this weekend
Ohio desperately needs to get back on track this weekend when it travels to Muncie, Indiana, to take on Ball State in a weekend conference series. Ohio is coming off a weekend in which it suffered a 2-1 series defeat to Central Michigan while surrendering 16 total runs across a three-game span.
Mellencamp performs an evening of nostalgia and the Indiana experience
As the minutes ticked toward 8 p.m., a mass of fans bared the crisp, spring, evening air standing along W Riverside Ave of Ball State University's Emens Auditorium as they were ushered through lines of security. Almost all 3,309 auditorium seats would soon be filled to watch acclaimed musician and Indiana native John Mellencamp perform March 22.
Burris student wins Ball State PBS Regional Spelling Bee
MUNCIE, Ind. — Leo Furlong, a fifth-grader at Burris Laboratory School, is the champion of the 2024 Ball State PBS Regional Spelling Bee. The competition, involving nearly 40 spellers from several local school systems, lasted 12 rounds, according to a news release published by Ball State University. The first...
Muncie man arrested in armed robbery that resulted in victim's shooting
MUNCIE, Ind. — One Muncie man has been arrested in an armed robbery that saw the victim shot. Henry Thomas "Detroit" Lowe, 44, is preliminarily charged with armed robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, a Level 2 felony carrying up to 30 years in prison. According to Muncie police,...
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