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Influential pediatricians group backs gay marriage
CHICAGO (AP) — The nation's most influential pediatrician's group has endorsed gay marriage, saying a stable relationship between parents regardless of sexual orientation contributes to a child's health and well-being. The American Academy of...
Tags: American Medical Association, Science and Technology, Culture, Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage
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Local teen beats suicidal thoughts with controversial treatment
It's a nation-wide problem affecting local families. A shortage of psychiatrists means adults, teens and kids who desperately need help aren't getting it. The reason for the shortage? Med students are choosing other specialties. Our Fact Finder team...
Tags: Suicidal Behavior, Skype, Culture, Depression, Suicide
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Negotiators talking to Ala. captor through pipe
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — Speaking into a 4-inch-wide ventilation pipe, hostage negotiators tried Thursday to talk a man into releasing a kindergartener and ending a standoff in an underground bunker that stretched into its third day. The man...
Tags: ADHD, Culture, Learning Disability, Steve Clouse, Crime, Law and Justice
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Two South Bend police officers suspended, one may be fired after gas station prank
WSBT TVSOUTH BEND – A South Bend police officer disciplined for punching an inmate at the St. Joseph County jail is in trouble again. This time, the interim chief is asking the Public Safety Board to fire Patrolman Theo Robert for interfering with an...Tags: Politics, Safety of Citizens, Culture, Learning Disability, Television Industry
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Saint Mary's grad programs to admit men
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- Saint Mary's College, a Catholic women's college, plans to add some graduate-level programs in the next few years that will include men. Three graduate degree programs are likely to be added. The specific degree programs haven't been...Tags: Culture, Teachers, Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture, Students
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12-year-old's parents say South Bend bus driver left him in cold
A Granger couple is outraged and the South Bend Community School Corporation is investigating after the couple said a school bus driver left their 12-year-old son in the cold, nearly a mile from home. The sixth-grader’s parents said he walked home...
Tags: Culture, JC Penney Company Inc., Arts and Culture
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CDC: 1 in 8 U.S. women binge drink 3 times a month
CBS NewsThe dangerous activity of binge drinking -- defined as consuming four or more alcoholic drinks at one time -- can take a toll on anyone's health. And, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals in a new report, it's an under-recognized...Tags: Heart Disease, Substance Abuse, Abusive Behavior, Breast Cancer, Beverage Industry
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South Bend schools issue statement on probe into school bus driver's actions
Monday, WSBT told you about a Granger couple who is outraged, claiming a school bus driver left their 12-year-old son in the cold, nearly a mile from home, and on Tuesday, the South Bend School Corporation responded by releasing a statement. Here is the...
Tags: Culture, Teaching and Learning, JC Penney Company Inc., Arts and Culture, Students
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35,000 Michigan students take MEAP test online
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Tens of thousands of Michigan students took the MEAP social studies exam in a unique way this fall. They took it online. The pilot exam was given to about 35,000 students in nearly 100 school districts statewide....Tags: Freedom of the Press, Politics, Detroit Free Press, Culture, Arts and Culture
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What do Mourdock's controversial comments mean for Senate race?
WSBT-TVIndiana's Republican Senate candidate says his words were twisted, but could it cost him the race? Several local political science experts believe Richard Mourdock’s words at the end of Indiana’s U.S. Senate debate Tuesday night could be...Tags: Politics, U.S. Electoral College, Culture, Richard Mourdock, Television Industry
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Family Spokesman: George McGovern dead at age 90
WALTER R. MEARS,Associated PressSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — George S. McGovern, a proud liberal who argued fervently against the Vietnam War as a senator from South Dakota and suffered one of the most crushing defeats in presidential election history against Richard Nixon in 1972,...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), U.S. Military, Politics, Bob Dole, International Military Interventions
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Outlook remains cloudy for 2nd District debates
South Bend TribuneThe race for north-central Indiana's congressional seat could run its full course without voters seeing the two major-party candidates side by side in a televised debate. Republican Jackie Walorski announced last week that she will participate in two...Tags: Elections, Radio, Politics, Culture, Indiana University South Bend
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