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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: Marriage, American Academy of Pediatrics, U.S. Supreme Court, Family, Arts and Culture
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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: Medical Specialization, Arts and Culture, Suicidal Behavior, Psychiatry, Culture
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WSBT Fact Finder: Getting legitimate candidate petition signatures not difficult
WSBT TV ReporterLocal political science experts say getting voters to sign a piece of paper to put two well-known Democratic candidates on the 2008 presidential primary ballot should have been easy. Court documents say former St. Joseph County Democratic Party chair,...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party, Politics, Elections, Primaries
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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: Asperger Syndrome, Jimmy Lee Dykes, Behavioral Conditions, Shootings, FBI
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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: Television Industry, Cinnamon, Learning Disability, Arts and Culture, Government
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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...
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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: Breast Cancer, Heart Disease, High Schools, Consumer Goods Industries, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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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: Students, Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning, Culture, JC Penney Company Inc.
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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: Arts and Culture, Culture, Politics, Detroit Free Press, Freedom of the Press
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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: Television Industry, Richard Mourdock, U.S. Senate, Todd Akin, CBS Corp.
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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: Hillary Clinton, World War II (1939-1945), Democratic Party, Wesleyan University, Walter Mondale
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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: Radio, Arts and Culture, Kevin Allen, Indiana University South Bend, Culture
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