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State fair victim emerges from coma

A woman badly injured in the Indiana State Fair stage collapse is communicating with family and friends after waking up from a month-long coma. They say 30-year-old Andrea Vellinga of Pendleton began gradually waking up last week from the coma she had been in since suffering severe head injuries in the Aug. 13 collapse. Vellinga communicates with a dry-erase board because of a tracheotomy. She's been at an Indianapolis rehabilitation center for the past couple of weeks. The stage collapse killed seven people and injured dozens of others.
 

Man killed after stop to help motorist

State police say a man who stopped to help others with car trouble was struck and killed late Wednesday by a semitrailer on the shoulder of Interstate 465 in Indianapolis. The crash happened after the car pulled over because of tire trouble near I-74 on the city's southeast side. Police say the man stopped his pickup truck behind the car and had gotten out with his passenger when the semitrailer drifted over, hitting the truck, the two men and a passenger from the car. The pickup truck driver was killed instantly, while the other two men hit were taken to hospitals with non-life threatening injuries.
 

Fear about world economy sends markets lower

Stocks opened sharply lower Thursday, extending a rout around the world. Indicators across the financial markets suggested investors were frightened that the global economy is in for a long slump.

Wishard to use $8.3M grant to stem substance abuse

At three community health centers, all patients will be asked about their alcohol and drug usage confidentially, as part of an early-intervention approach designed to cut down addictions and reduce hospitalization.

Township board OKs small claims court move

The Center Township Board on Wednesday approved a plan to move the township’s small claims court from the City-County Building to the Julia M. Carson Government Center on Fall Creek Parkway despite a judge’s objections.

GAO finds cost estimates for F136 engine outdated

Some members of Congress hope to revive work on the alternate engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which Rolls-Royce in Indianapolis worked on for nine years before the project was halted in April.

Urban farm to provide produce for needy families

Gleaners Food Bank, Indiana University Health, the city of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis Parks Foundation announced Wednesday they're teaming up on the project called Indy Urban Acres.

BROOKS: For young adults today, if it feels right …

It’s not so much that these young Americans are living lives of sin and debauchery, at least no more than you’d expect from 18- to 23-year-olds. What’s disheartening is how bad they are at thinking and talking about moral issues.

DOWD: Our choice—blockheads or the egghead

At the cusp of the 2012 race, we have a classic cultural collision between a skinny Eastern egghead lawyer who’s inept in Washington gunfights and a pistol-totin’, lethal-injectin’, square-shouldered cowboy who has no patience for book learnin’.