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I lost my debit card, Am Ex card, faculty i.d. and driver’s license last weekend. My wallet had a ripped pocket and I think everything fell out somewhere in the farmer’s market. I have enough faith in the friendly small-town experience that I kept waiting for someone to get in touch… but no dice. To [...]
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From our local paper today (not sure what accounts for the several-week delay on this news being reported; perhaps there was an attempted hush-up):
A spring party intended to be an opportunity for friends to exchange seeds landed one woman in the hospital after she ate some of the seeds.
Monroe County Sheriff’s deputies were called at [...]
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Sorry I missed this one.
Kirkwood Avenue and Walnut Street are hubs of nightlife entertainment for college students, but this Thursday the streets entertained a different crowd: the undead.
About 100 people dressed up as zombies took over the streets for about an hour, walking straight-legged and blank-eyed, bringing traffic to a halt, jumping on cars that [...]
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Amazing flooding here in Bloomington!!! I had to take my shoes off to wade across Third Street — the water was up to my knees, splashing up in the wake of a bus against the window of the coffee shop, and I chatted with a guy whose bike had been swept away downstream in Jordan [...]
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Local news story of the week:
Police: Funny fudge made with lavender, not pot
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana University police say brownies a girl gave to dorm workers didn’t contain marijuana at all. The leafy substance mixed in was lavender.
IU Police Capt. Jerry Minger said the 13-year-old girl came forward after the case was publicized to [...]
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We woke up at 5:30 a.m. — the bed was rattling and shaking. We were confused and thought maybe it was a lightning storm; we learned this morning that parts of the lower Midwest were hit with a 5.4 earthquake!
On my sister-in-law’s suggestion, I submitted a report to Did you Feel It?
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