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UPCOMING TODAY:
STUDENT ASSESSMENT
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana education officials are scrambling to figure out how to scrape together a test for new learning standards that haven't yet been approved. Students next year will have to take at least two tests: the lawmaker-mandated ISTEP and another pilot that will assess new standards up for a vote April 28. Some worry the extra testing will stress both students and teachers. By Summer Ballentine. UPCOMING: 500 words by 5 p.m.
SOUTH BEND-BOY SLAIN
SOUTH BEND — Police continue investigating the shooting death of a 2-year-old boy playing outside a South Bend home who they believe might have been struck by a bullet from a gunfight between two rival groups that began about a block away. A few dozen people gathered Thursday night for a vigil where the boy was killed the day before. SENT: 120 words. UPCOMING: Will be updated.
IU MED SCHOOL-EVANSVILLE
BLOOMINGTON — Indiana University's president is recommending a downtown Evansville site for a health science education and research center planned by IU's medical school and three other schools. The university's Board of Trustees is expected to vote this afternoon on approving the location for the nearly $70 million project. UPCOMING: 350 words.
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BUNKER HILL STRUGGLES
BUNKER HILL — Leaders of a small northern Indiana town say they've avoided having to lay off all its employees thanks to a $32,000 federal tax refund. Officials in the Miami County town of Bunker Hill blame the troubles on mismanagement by the former clerk-treasurer, such as running up $19,000 in penalties on unpaid bills and paying health insurance premiums for ex-employees long after they left their jobs. SENT: 130 words. UPCOMING: 300 words.
HARRISON PORTRAIT
VINCENNES — The foundation that oversees the home where President William Henry Harrison lived as Indiana's territorial governor now has a portrait painted just before his death on display. The Grouseland Foundation bought the oil painting in a 2012 art auction but didn't put it on display at the house in Vincennes until this week as it worked to finalize a donation to pay for it. SENT: 120 words. UPCOMING: 250 words.
IN BRIEF: WAYWARD SQUIRREL DAMAGE, FOUR WOUNDED-RICHMOND, ELKHART SHOOTINGS, SLEEPING GIRL WOUNDED, HANOVER PRESIDENT, METH LAB WARNING, PURDUE-SPACE PLANTS
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