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Central Newspapers, Inc. and its owner, Eugene C. Pulliam—maternal grandfather of future Vice President Dan Quayle—purchased the Star from Shaffer's estate on April 25, 1944, and adopted initiatives to increase the paper's circulation. In 1944, the Star had trailed the evening Indianapolis News but by 1948 had become Indiana's largest ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
The Richmond Hill explosion took place on November 10, 2012, in the Richmond Hill subdivision in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.The home of Monserrate Shirley was the center of the explosion that resulted in the deaths of next-door neighbors John "Dion" Longworth and his wife Jennifer (née Buxton), the injuries of seven others, and $4 million in property damage.
Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man who was found dead Sunday morning on the city's near east side. Officers were called at about 8 a.m. to the 100 block of North Oxford ...
A teenager is facing a murder charge after a 77-year-old Indianapolis woman was found dead inside a locked bathroom handcuffed with plastic wrapped around her head.
The Marion County Coroner’s Office ruled Whitfield’s death a homicide, caused by heart failure as he was being restrained and shocked. According to the report, Whitfield weighed 389 pounds (176 kilograms). The coroner’s office listed “morbid obesity” and “hypertensive cardiovascular disease” as contributing factors in his death.
Eugene Smith Pulliam (September 7, 1914 – January 20, 1999) was the publisher of the Indianapolis Star and the Indianapolis News from 1975 until his death. He was also a supporter of First Amendment rights, an advocate of press freedom, and opposed McCarthyism.
Indianapolis Metropolitan police responded to a report of shots fired just after 10 p.m. Monday near East 12th Street and Colorado Avenue.Officers found JaDen Thrasher with multiple gunshot wounds ...