State Police investigating officer-involved shooting in Muncie

The Indiana State Police are investigating an officer- involved shooting that occurred Friday evening in Muncie. According to a press release from state police, deputies from the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office were searching for Tarron H.

Social Security Matters

Dear Rusty: I was widowed years ago and, when I approached age 60, I looked into Social Security survivor benefits based on my late husband’s record. He started receiving Social Security shortly before he died at $1,200 per month.

Plain Vanilla ‘St. Who?’

Over the course of my two years in junior high school, specifically to the times, grades seven and eight, we studied a good bit about our country, its history and its government. This was clearly long before the days in which children who know virtually nothing about our nation were granted the “right” to vote in our local, state and national elections. But I digress.

Indiana State Fair announces second wave of Hoosier Lottery Free Stage Concerts for 2023

INDIANAPOLIS - A fair favorite returns bigger and better in 2023! The best concert value of the summer returns featuring classic rock legends STYX, American Country A Cappella Group Home Free, 90’s Hit Makers Gin Blossoms, The Fan Favorite Happy Together Tour, Gospel Music Legend CeCe Winans & Popular DJ Kurt Streblow and More! On Friday, the Indiana State Fair unveiled additional shows to its 2023 list of scheduled concerts as a part of the Hoosier Lottery Free Stage schedule, July 28 through August 20 (The fair is closed Mondays and Tuesdays). The Hoosier Lottery Free Stage has become a summertime staple for concertgoers and music lovers.

Living on Purpose

Within the unlimited amount of evidence to prove that God is real and the Creator of all things, there is no greater example than the Sun, Earth, and Moon. The average person does not wake up in the morning and rush to the window to see if the sun is going to rise, or if the earth is being drawn into a black hole.

Broken Open, But Not Broken

The journalist and columnist David Brooks has written and spoken eloquently about the challenges of the moral life, and life in general. Some years ago he recounted the experience of a woman he met in Ohio who came home one Sunday to find that her husband had killed their children and himself, perhaps one of the most horrific things one can imagine. She recovered from this and devoted her life to serving others, opening a free pharmacy and teaching at Ohio State University and helping women who have suffered violence. Part of her motivation was anger at her husband and not wanting to let him ruin her life. Brooks borrows a phrase from Parker Palmer to describe how some people are broken by life’s tragedies, while others are broken open. Palmer writes about two ways in which the heart can be broken; one where it is shattered and scattered and one where it is “broken open into new capacity, holding more of both our own and the world’s suffering and joy, despair and hope.” Life can be hard, and sometimes we need for our hearts and minds to be broken open in order for us to reach a new level of caring and understanding with which to solve life’s challenges. The problems of life can usually not be solved with the same consciousness which created them.