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Vince Werner, a 2002 graduate of Sheffield Area Middle/High School, works as a launch engineer at Space Exploration Technologies Corp., which recently launched its Dragon capsule to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.

Knox College will award honorary degrees to a war crimes prosecutor, a chemistry professor and a music director during its commencement ceremony.

They've been friends since they were just kids with a common interest in movies.

This weekend, Zionsville High School's graduating class of 2012 is expected to set a world record for having the most twins to receive a diploma.

A race horse found dead in a Lowell, Ind., pasture was killed with a device used to slaughter livestock, authorities say.

An Indiana race horse found dead earlier this week was slain with a tool used to kill livestock, not a bullet as previously believed, authorities said Friday.

Thomas Jeschke, who died nine months ago in a traffic accident, served as Seneca's FFA president in 2004.

West Lafayette, IN-Little rain and unseasonably hot weather in May left part of northern and southwest Indiana in drought just a few weeks after farmers got off to a fast start by planting their crops earlier than normal.

It's the end of the school year and Elmhurst Patch is receiving word of the many accomplishments of Elmhurst students at their respective colleges.

As state funding becomes slimmer with each passing year, the competition for grant money becomes steeper.

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An administrative job at Purdue University held by the husband of the school's president is being eliminated as she leaves the school this summer.

A race horse was found shot to death on Tuesday, one day before she was scheduled to run at Balmoral Park.

Tom Clohisy and John Gieger join Ezra Penland Actuarial Recruitment. Jordan Nadler is awarded the Ezra Penland Actuarial Scholarship for May, 2012.

More than 2 billion years ago, a much fainter sun should have left the Earth as an orbiting ice ball, unfit to develop life as we know it today.

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The Japanese art of paper folding Origami inspired researchers from Purdue University to develop a method they named Kaleidogami - computational algorithms and tools used to turn a single sheet of paper into precisely folded morphing mechanisms.

PURDUE AGRONOMIST: HOT, DRY WEATHER STARTS TO TAKE ITS TOLL ON YOUNG CORN PLANTS May 30, 2012 Source: Purdue University news release Dry conditions and a record-setting heat wave have started to stress young, Midwestern corn plants, a Purdue Extension agronomist says.

Clinician Ben Wissel recently accepted an assistant coaching position at Duke University and owns various individual records at Purdue University.

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